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Education
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Certification
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J Aniece Adams

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Summary

Thought leader, centered on diversity, equity and inclusion - media maven with over 24 years of domestic and global management experience in communications, digital media, climate justice and social enterprise. Astute technologist who builds teams, equitable and justice centered systems, with a business first strategic lens. Reputational sound leader who utilizes relationships to cultivate transformational partnerships.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Vice President, Diversity and Justice

The Climate Reality Project
Washington, DC
08.2021 - Current
  • Inaugural SVP and JEDI lead, established two new teams, including Climate and Environmental Justice.
  • Advise the organization on how to cultivate diversity, equity, inclusion and justice both internally and externally.
  • Contributed to strategic planning and development of equitable policy that resounded both internally and externally.
  • Serve as organizational representative with key funders and led equity and gender justice workshops domestically and globally in Manila, Philippines; Accra, Ghana and Dubai, UAE.

Chief of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Tom Steyer PAC
San Francisco, CA
03.2020 - 12.2020
  • Developed internal equitable hiring practice people strategy for staff and senior leadership.
  • Advised principal and chief of staff on pivotal diversity, equity and inclusion strategy - wrote messaging to further DEI goals.
  • Developed and implemented external diversity, equity and inclusion strategy, communications, business and organizational partnerships.
  • Accessed and mined data, current events to build political forecast models for diversity, equity and inclusion.
  • Developed and implemented $250,000 Election 2020 racial justice voter mobilization program with external partners.

Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Tom Steyer 2020 Presidential Campaign
San Francisco, CA
07.2019 - 03.2020
  • Led effort to build campaign team that was 50% people of color, 55% women, 30% LGBTQI, 30% parents, 12% disabled and, 4% veterans of military service.
  • Recruited and counseled hiring managers to build a diverse, equitable and inclusive team of over 600 campaign staffers.
  • Cultivated strong value-added relationships with external subject matter experts to create equitable campaign policy papers.

Director of Digital Advocacy/National Partnerships

NextGen America
San Francisco, CA
04.2017 - 07.2019
  • Led digital team that increased turnout of young American voters by 16% using email, mobile messaging, and digital advertising.
  • Developed partnerships on a 10 million signature campaign with national social justice, civil and human rights organizations.
  • Created a diversity, equity and inclusion working group that spearheaded a staff audit of salaries, advancement, experience and brought DEI to the attention of organization leadership and founder.

Campaign Director

MoveOn.org
Washington, DC
03.2016 - 04.2017
  • Produced campaigns on immigration reform, women's rights and civic engagement to engage the electorate to get out to vote.
  • Represented organization on various political tables.

Vice President of Communications and Digital Media

NAACP
Baltimore, MD
07.2012 - 10.2015
  • Managed 1.5 million annual budget and team of communications and digital media staff.
  • Advised NAACP president and CEO on messaging for civil rights issues - booked media including "Face the Nation," "Politics Nation," and "The Rachel Maddow Show."
  • Developed in-kind partnerships with TV One, Google and Facebook/Instagram to leverage the digital and social media reach of the NAACP.
  • Managed a team effort that built an email list well over 1 million; increased social media followers by 500% and built one of the largest SMS mobile programs in the country.

Digital Media Trainer

United States State Department
Skopje, Macedonia And Pristina, Kosovo
05.2012 - 09.2012

Developed digital media curriculum and presented for a cross cultural program hosted by the United States Embassy in Macedonia and Kosovo - for young Muslim journalists.

Digital Media Manager

Democratic National Committee
Washington, DC
04.2010 - 10.2011
  • Developed and implemented digital media, for the Democratic National Committee, to engage with 20 constituencies using blogs, social media and video.
  • Contributed to the design, testing and implementation team for President Obama's 2012 re-election website.

Education

Master of Arts - Professional Writing

University Of Southern California

Bachelor of Arts - Radio And Television Broadcasting

San Francisco State University

Skills

  • Partnership Development
  • Staff Development
  • Strategic leadership
  • Policies and Procedures
  • Public speaking and communications
  • Business trends

Affiliations

  • World Forestry Center Fellow
  • Wildland Fire Mitigation Commission
  • Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site Advisory Commission
  • NAACP Image Award Nominating Committee, Lifetime NAACP member
  • Solano County Land Trust Commission
  • UC Davis Graduate Program of Environmental Policy and Management, External Advisory Committee
  • City of Vallejo Planning Commission member
  • Rumi Forum National Board member

Accomplishments

Climate Reality Leadership Corps * Rockwood Leadership Academy alum * Mpower 100 List of top American Muslim organizers * Google Personal Democracy Fellowship *Blue State Digital, Women Creating Change * Center for American Progress Leadership Institute Fellow

Certification

Climate Reality Leadership Corps, Global Training - Fall 2021; Las Vegas, Spring 2022

Languages

Spanish
Professional

Timeline

Senior Vice President, Diversity and Justice

The Climate Reality Project
08.2021 - Current

Chief of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Tom Steyer PAC
03.2020 - 12.2020

Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Tom Steyer 2020 Presidential Campaign
07.2019 - 03.2020

Director of Digital Advocacy/National Partnerships

NextGen America
04.2017 - 07.2019

Campaign Director

MoveOn.org
03.2016 - 04.2017

Vice President of Communications and Digital Media

NAACP
07.2012 - 10.2015

Digital Media Trainer

United States State Department
05.2012 - 09.2012

Digital Media Manager

Democratic National Committee
04.2010 - 10.2011

Master of Arts - Professional Writing

University Of Southern California

Bachelor of Arts - Radio And Television Broadcasting

San Francisco State University
J Aniece Adams