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Esther Cuevas

Esther Cuevas

Political Fundraising Consultant
Houston,TX

Summary

Young, experienced, minority, female political fundraiser based in Houston, Texas with experience working in Democratic Organizations, Federal& State Candidates and Electeds, as well as Municipal Candidates. Extensive call time management experience, as well as generalized finance work and a sufficient understanding of all other departments. Strong communication skills, not afraid to jump in, dedicated, detail oriented, and enthusiastic.

Skills

NGP

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Work History

Call Time Manager & General Finance Associate

Isaiah Martin For Congress
Houston, TX
08.2023 - Current
  • Staffed my principal daily in daily call time sessions on Calltime.ai, averaging 35+ hours a week, including weekends and occasionally out of state sessions when traveling.
  • Comprehensively managed the entirety of my candidate's call time program, including but not limited to: curating intentional call lists that targeted donors most likely to be supportive, formulating all forms of call time specific language, including email, text, voicemail follow ups, pledge chasing correspondence, and personalized scripts that truly emphasize my candidate's vision in a way that donors are receptive of, frequently checking all communication platforms to ensure the campaign is up to date with donor's responses ensuring fast response times, and finding ways to motivate my candidate daily while creating an environment that is as productive and personalized as possible.

Call Time Manager and General Finance Associate

Sheila For Houston
Houston, TX
04.2023 - 08.2023
  • Staffed my principal daily in call time sessions, under the constraints of her dynamic schedule as a current elected and a candidate.
  • Staffed surrogate call time with members of our extensive finance committee, as well as other elected officials during joint call sessions.
  • Built coalitions with her existing donors to reach new donors throughout the city and expand our program.
  • Comprehensively updated the team and key players in staff calls on all call time matters.
  • Formulate all call time specific language, oversee the acknowledgements process, manage check contributions and post office box retrievals, deposit checks, update all appropriate trackers and metrics in our various platforms.
  • Fundraised for and advocated on behalf of the campaign both in the city and out when traveling for events or fundraisers.
  • Staffed, attended, planned, and executed fundraisers along side our finance director and other staff.

Development Director

Dallas County Democratic Party
Dallas, TX
12.2022 - 04.2023
  • Increased fundraising donations by revamping the major gifts program.
  • Built a financial organizational structure by implementing various metrics and programs which secured our current donors and sustaining members and ultimately lead to being able to create more targeted fundraising efforts that aligned more closely with their vision and gain donations from new prospects with a high ROI.
  • Worked along side their previous fundraising consulting team to identify the party's specific needs and created fundraising programs to assist with meeting specific goals, via online fundraisers, virtual and in person events, call time, and donor meetings with our executive staff.
  • Assisted in multiple areas of the team such as creating graphics on Canva, drafting language for socials, helping assist our precinct chairs and other various aspects that were not specific to my role.

Finance Associate

Texas Democratic Party
Austin, TX
06.2022 - 11.2022
  • Worked along side my finance director and call time manager to prospect, update trackers, refine our large and expansive NGP universe, oversee entire acknowledgements process- from language to postage, staff our executive director in call time during the months when we had joint ED's, participate in call time to invite donors to events on behalf of the party, plan, staff, and execute large scale events with all members of our previous Democratic State Slate, the VPOTUS, and various electeds in both our Texas State Legislature and Congress.
  • Gained the majority of my knowledge in some of the most common campaign tools such as NGP, VAN, ActBlue, Mobilize, navigating the FEC and TEC.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Political Science

Baylor University
Waco, TX
08.2019 - 05.2022

Associate of Arts - Liberal Arts And General Studies

Florida State College At Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL
08.2017 - 05.2019

Timeline

Call Time Manager & General Finance Associate

Isaiah Martin For Congress
08.2023 - Current

Call Time Manager and General Finance Associate

Sheila For Houston
04.2023 - 08.2023

Development Director

Dallas County Democratic Party
12.2022 - 04.2023

Finance Associate

Texas Democratic Party
06.2022 - 11.2022

Bachelor of Arts - Political Science

Baylor University
08.2019 - 05.2022

Associate of Arts - Liberal Arts And General Studies

Florida State College At Jacksonville
08.2017 - 05.2019

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

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