Brandon Ros
Oakland,CA
Summary
Community organizer with key strengths in organizing and project management/campaign planning. Dynamic public speaker and effective media spokesperson. Visionary, activist, and leader who is balanced, transparent, and actively supports team goals and fosters team culture.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Arts & Activism
Homies Empowerment Program/Adelante
08.2022 - Current
- Designing curriculum and facilitating workshops such as capitalism, colonialism, gender justice, food justice to 50 youth every week in program
- Grant writing and raised 100k during first year in director role to fund youth stipends, art events, and workshop supplies
- Facilitating weekly political and ethnic education workshops such as imperialism, native indigenous history, and movement history to 28 adult staff members
- Youth exhibit and performance arts event planning, creating youth MC script, coordinating volunteers, outreaching to community for attendance
- Public speaker at Oakland city wide events, featured speaker at MLK Day gun violence prevention rally and city council meetings
Site Organizer
AYPAL
06.2018 - 09.2022
- Curriculum/workshop content development, focus on youth political engagement, individually supervising up to 50 youth and college interns, project planning
- Managing payroll, data entry, budgeting up to 60k
- Lead event planner with youth and program staff to establish agenda, logistics, and outreach plans for 300+ people
- Campaign planning - Developing yearly campaign focus to align work with messaging and theme
Freedom Store Volunteer
Homies Empowerment Program/Adelante
03.2020 - 08.2022
- 3500+hours of volunteer service on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays 8am-4pm, 24 hours a week
- Weekly distribution of produce goods to thousands of community members in East Oakland
- Distribute food and essential items to unhoused communities
- Coordinate donation drop offs from outside partners and organizations
- Culture Keeper: Translating org information to community in culturally relevant ways to ensure diverse comprehension
Representative/Community Organizer
Obama Foundation My Brothers Keeper
07.2017 - 02.2019
- Selected by Barack Obama as featured speaker for MBK Rising to represent foundation through media, partnerships, and public affairs
- Public Speaker - statewide rep for My Brothers Keeper, keynote speaking, paneling, script writing, facilitating workshops
- Selected as Oakland representative for Obama foundation in "My Brothers Keeper", promoting, allocating resources, and empowering inner-city communities through higher education, retention, and academic achievement
- Planned MBK Oakland Summit for youth to access education, job resources, leadership developement
College Intern
AYPAL
07.2017 - 01.2018
- Support planning and facilitating workshops on education reform, ethnic history, and politics to 15-20 high school students twice a week
- Organized and attended rallies with youth to promote greater Asian and Pacific Islander presence
- Create academic tracking plan with 30 youth to keep track of grades, goals, and ambitions
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Community Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA05.2018
High School Diploma -
Castlemont High School
Oakland, CA06.2014
Skills
- Effective Communication
- Dynamic Storytelling
- Team Leadership
- Culture Keeper
- Presentation Design
- Facilitation and Group Dynamics
Timeline
Director of Arts & Activism
Homies Empowerment Program/Adelante
08.2022 - Current
Freedom Store Volunteer
Homies Empowerment Program/Adelante
03.2020 - 08.2022
Site Organizer
AYPAL
06.2018 - 09.2022
Representative/Community Organizer
Obama Foundation My Brothers Keeper
07.2017 - 02.2019
College Intern
AYPAL
07.2017 - 01.2018
Bachelor of Arts - Community Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz
High School Diploma -
Castlemont High School
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