Sarah Rose Covey

Diligent and principled professional with expertise in providing administrative support in the field of family law. Capable of handling a variety of assignments with well formed discernment and timeliness. Throughout assigned tasks, I improve workflow by using hard and soft skills while maintaining a high degree of confidentiality and integrity. I believe our practice fosters justice and fairness to people, children, and families in Arizona.

• Interpersonal communication: Effectively communicates and negotiates with the public, clients, litigators, and court professionals regarding needs, issues, and concerns. Develops and keeps positive relationships with private and professional individuals, sometimes across years.
• Organization: Maintains the attorney calendar for legal deadlines, appointments, coordinated meetings, and punctual correspondence. Puts together trial binders in accordance to court orders and judicial preferences.
• Case management: Uses a system of meticulous record-keeping for client files, receipts, and their sensitive data. Peer edits and discusses pleadings with attorney leadership for court submission.

Engaging DSA members, groups, and people to partake in events where there are a voluntary and reciprocal exchange of resources, assistance, and support among individuals in communities that face social, economic, and environmental hardship in the Tempe and Phoenix areas by:

• Leadership: Hosting repeated meetings with members of other organizations and volunteers while simultaneously acting as the secretary to capture ideas to improve the quality and efficiency of our events. Acting as a liaison to DSA's executive committee about plans and expenditures.
• Communication: Doing outreach and follow up with local organizations via phone calls, meetings, and correspondence to promote events. Coordinating or generating fliers, announcements, or documents to distribute to the public, DSA membership, and Phoenix DSA leadership. Centralized communication for projects on signal, slack, and discord.
• Organization: Maintaining a digital, ordered, and secure Googled drive with mutual aid documentation, images, and minutes. Keeping an Excel file with data and information regarding volunteers, skill shares and community resources.
• Research: Conducting searches for mutual aid resources that are available via the city, grants, companies, nonprofits, and events. Checking legal restrictions for mutual aid activities so they are in accordance with the law and promote member safety.

Volunteered on a grassroots AWT campaign to assist various outreach efforts, including signature gathering, awareness events, and social media to help Arizonans from diverse backgrounds and industries understand the significance of unions and why Right to Work laws undercut powerful collective bargaining and worker efficacy.

• Signature Collection: Adhered to state campaign and legal requirements to successfully amass signatures from eligible voters, while ensuring accuracy, legibility, and confidence.
• Community Engagement: Helped leadership organize signature gathering efforts as part of the campaign by researching high foot traffic events, keeping track of volunteers and signature sheets. Actively engaged with individuals of different backgrounds to explain the campaign's objectives and garner support.
• Educational Advocacy: Educated citizens about the significant roles unions play in our country, and that, if Right to Work law was dissolved, everyday workers could more rapidly succeed in achieving better working conditions, pay, and benefits via total dues collection.

A demanding role where one acts as a social media manager, point of contact person between the public, authorities and the newsroom, and an editor, while upholding journalistic ethics and standards in all aspects of news production.

• Edited and assemble news content in real-time for broadcast, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and adherence to editorial standards.
• Monitored live feeds, wire services, and social media platforms to identify breaking news stories and develop timely and compelling content.
• Collaborated with producers, reporters, and anchors to prioritize coverage, select footage, and craft engaging storytelling narratives.
• Utilized digital editing software and broadcast systems to edit video clips, graphics, and sound bites for inclusion in news broadcasts.
• Worked under tight deadlines and high-pressure situations to deliver breaking news updates and live coverage as events unfolded.