Visa Signature retained me to deliver partners The James Beard Foundation (JBF) and Chase Sapphire Preferred inaugural “Taste America®: “Local Flavor from Coast To Coast”. The tour showcased culinary all-stars and public events exploring local cuisines in 10 cities across the US where the chefs and celebrities acted as ambassadors for JBF. I managed the programming of benefit dinners; in-store events with chef appearances, cooking demos, book signings, and tastings from local producers and artisans.  As a result, JBF continues these partnership tours and the benefit to the Foundation has increased scholarships to culinary students, the development of a Women's Leadership Program and Chefs Boot Camp for Policy and Change.

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What started as volunteering a few hours with the Colorado Sports Council while I was searching for a job, turned into the launch of my career. It was through this wonderful experience I began my Olympic journey, working with the USOC to develop brand, compliance, and Best Practice processes for the US Olympic Festival-’95. As often happens with non-profits, marketing, business development, grant-proposal and most importantly, the youth art program, were soon assigned to me too. While proud of all the work I did, including bringing in $250k of grant awards, it was seeing students around the world having life changing experiences through the youth art program that created my passion for corporate responsibility. 

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