Jason Seto

• Co-lead the school administration advisory board in collaboration with the Principal, designing plans around six pillars to achieve school success – Health & Wellness, Educator Support, Academic Enrichment, Extended Learning Time, Parent/Family Engagement and Community Engagement.
• Engaged school community in collaborative vision setting and assessments.
• Managed and allocated city councilman and grant budgets totaling $250,000 to hire and market all after-school and in-school special academic, sports, dance, theater programming and mental health services to support school and community needs.
• Collaborated with UFT to prepare (1 million dollar) school theater renovation proposal for former Bronx Borough President Reuben Diaz Jr.
• Managed and led high stakeholder meetings and guest invites with former Lit. Governor Kathy Hochul, former Bronx President Reuben Diaz Jr., and NYCDOE executives from Chancellor's office.
• Secured and booked all annual dental/vision screenings for over 800 students.
• Prepared and coordinated for all NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene school inspections ensuring compliance.
• Supervised PAL (Police Athletic League) after-school programming.
• Managed all community partnerships.
• Produced/Marketed Disney's, The Lion King Junior production with students in partnership with Disney's, The Lion King on Broadway creative team.
• Produced annual community/parent engagement Hunts Point special event - supervising over 100 volunteers - over 1000 people in attendance.

NYC's largest WorldPride fundraising music and dance event launched through “Jake Resnikow Live Events” - selling out to 15,000 people at the Jacob Javits Center. Raising over $500,000 for NYC leading LGBTQ charities. Celebrity special guest musical performances by – Bette Midler, Cyndi Lauper, Billy Porter and Brandy.

• Conceived opening musical performance with world superstar Beyonce's Creative Director, Chris Grant – 50 dancers in performance with special performance by celebrity artist Brandy.
• Secured sponsorship activations through donated dance rehearsal space and hotel partnerships - saving over $50,000 in expenses.
• Collaborated with Chris Grant and publicist Jeff Dorta, Project Publicity on all featured secured media bookings – NBC Nightline (special interview), NBC (special television segment on dance auditions), and featured story in Billboard music magazine with Chris Grant interviews promoting the event.

• Designed and executive produced the millennial Dance2Cure national brand social media campaign and fundraising live event for amfAR – increasing brand awareness by 125% across Instagram.
• Lead all internal and external cross-functional teams at amfAR - to launch the Dance2Cure fundraising live event at the premier night club Avalon in West Hollywood, Los Angeles California.
• Leveraged celebrity and record label relationships by negotiating partnership and booking performance contracts from the hit television series Empire - singer/actor Jussie Smollett, music icon group - En Vogue, and celebrity music creative directors and dance choreographers.

• Reported to Principal - Monitored all school attendance data - implemented incentive practices - awarded "Shine the Light" award - best school attendance improvement in NYC.
• Collaborated and built key stakeholders (families, school staff and community members) to develop needs assessment evaluation, parent survey's and to create/implement community school plan.
• Managed and allocated over $650,000 in receivership and community engagement budgets to build and manage all after-school, Summer In the City, expanded learning time, community external partnerships/stakeholders and parent engagement events/workshops.
• Presented community-based plans and programs to Senior Advisor to the Chancellor in Department of Education and Assistant Commissioner of New York State Education Department during school reviews.
• Supervised AmeriCorp and home outreach staff.
• Modeled real time de-escalation/peer mediation techniques and groups with students/teachers.

• Designed and managed first ever special needs teen fitness program between NAC and YMCA Association of New York City.
• Aligned individual CANES score to write and edit Medicaid Detailed Service Plans for at risk youth crisis services.
• Collaborated with all departments and social media platforms to produce and market the annual Special NAC Olympics (800 in attendance) at Chelsea Piers and fundraising benefit/holiday events (1000 in attendance) – supervised 75 corporate volunteers and over 100 staff volunteers.
• Worked with clinically diagnosed children-displaying complex and significant mental health needs - provided direct family support and direct clinical behavior services to B2H program as an Crisis-Skill Builder-Planned Respite provider.
• Collaborated with licensed social workers, therapists, case planners, and doctors to decrease need for placements in psychiatric inpatient facilities, including Residential Treatment Facilities.

• Designed marketing sponsorship deck with tier platforms, secured corporate cause sponsorships/rental income (i.e.) Target, Blue Sky Animation, Sony Pictures, Nickelodeon Television, Dr. Phil Show, and DreamWorks ranging from ($5,000-$100,000) to produce the annual Fall/Spring benefits – annual revenue (2-2.5 million).