PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
Highlights
Events and Programming Experience
Overview
In my role as an RA, over the last 1 1/2 years I have run, or helped run, over fifteen events ranging from 8-30 participants.
In my role as the Vice Chair of CDMT/YDCMT, I have supported over 10+ statewide, or chapter specific events, ranging from 10-100 participants online, in person, and hybrid! I have also run several managerial programs for various organizational practices.
Key Skills
Graphic Design and Social Media Proficiency: Utilizing programs such as Canva, Express, and various social media platforms, I can advertise events digitally and physically.
Advertisement and Turnout: I have gotten particularly skilled with digital, physical, and word-of-mouth marketing techniques.
Technical Skills:
Experience managing event expenditures, receipts, and inventory, and reports
Knowledge of local event, permitting, and food regulations
Bozeman, MT | Billings, MT | MSU - Bozeman Campus
Recent Events: Highlights
Pictured: Pat Flower speaking to a room of 25 invested students to learn about the importance of local elections!
Sep 2023: BIG SKY TOWN HALL: Legislator Round Up
I assisted MSU College Democrats in the planning and execution of our 2023 legislator round up, where 25-40 MSU students were given the opportunity to hear from their local government.
Helped design and distribute marketing materials
Assisted in room reservations and setup
Assumed contact for Sen. Pope
Purchased and purcred all materials for event
Nov 2023: FLOORGIVING | Charcuterie Style
In my role as a resident advisor, I
Collaborated with the American Indian Student Organization at MSU curated a menu that included traditional Native American food
Prepared the food charcuterie-style with educational posters on the foods present.
Bounty of the Bridgers provided me additional information to support students dealing with food insecurity, which I made available via brochures at the event.
Around 20 students attended the event.
**I often incorporate memes and current trends into my advertising practices for events to drive student attendance, this is the door tag I used for this event.
Elementary-Style Floor D.I.Y Vday Bags Workshop
In my role as an RA, I collaborated with two other floor RAs in my building to put together a D.I.Y Valentines Day Bag workshop to serve up to 50 students:
We brainstormed 'adultified' items for residents, including
crystals
tech decs
takis
candy
We put together various crafts for residents to make with all supplies at each station, including
DIY painted bags
DIY wire and bead jewelry
friendship bracelets
DIY slime and stress balls
I taught several residents how to create wire earrings and charms
I created instructions for each craft
At the end, we had 6+ different stations, and around 30 residents attended at different points in the night!
Recent Programming Adventures: Administrative Side Project Highlights
Letter Writing Program: College Democrats x High School Democrats
Below is how I am organizing a donor-card campaign for College Democrats of Montana
Identified those I wanted to get involved: With over 100 donors, I decided this would be a task best done by the high schoolers affiliated with our organization, as it is a good way to get them introduced to political world without too much training.
Put together a process to ensure it is structed: Given this project would be undertaken by 25+ highschoolers at schools across Montana, I opted for a digital structure to ensure completion.
Create donor sheet for reference: Using google sheets, I created a "dashboard" of sorts for this assignment. See below.
Create instructions for high schoolers: I created several resources to ensure the cards would turn out nice.
Created a Pinterest inspiration board and made it public, as well as uploaded my own card examples
Created a guidance sheet so they had clear instructions to follow
Execution: After training presidents and distributing the information, high school presidents will mail all of the letters together to the college leaders, so we can do one final check and save on postage. After the fact, we would mail them out to donors.
Managing Brainstorming for Events from a Management Perspective
For a final example, I want to share how I have structed brainstorming and idea 'storage' for an online organization.
The problem:
I noticed that during our meetings, we always had great ideas for events, merchandizing, social media, and the like, but given the unstructured nature of an online organization, our ideas and plans were not getting implemented.
The solution:
I created several "brainstorming" dashboards that I attached to our leadership website, for: events, social media posts, programs, projects, and merchandizing. They all worked very similarly:
A main "brainstorming" dashboard
Linked within dashboard:
Relevant information (e.g. calendars, guidelines, Slack links)
In-depth template
How it works:
At any given point, members and leaders alike messily drop ideas into the main brainstorming dashboard.
At meetings, these ideas are discussed, and if there is one we want to undertake, we start the in-depth template.
The in-depth template prompts users to consider all aspects of any given project.
Another plus of this system: We have written documentation for what we have done, useful for resumes, porfolios, donor reports, and historical documents. It also allows us to see what does and does not work.