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Consulting |
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Consulting |
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Consulting |
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She specialized in Communication/Corporate Relations. Her strengths include building strategic partnerships and enabling unparalleled growth through honed communications skills, solid business acumen, and forward-thinking leadership. Areas of expertise include Latino-focused diversity initiatives in startups and nonprofits. |
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She was a Fellow with the US-Mexico Solidarity Foundation in Mexico. She is also involved in the Rotary Club of International Friendship, LULAC, 3M Linked/DC, and Comadres. |
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She has over 30 years of professional experience. As the founder of Creative Alliance Communications (CAC) in 1997, she is recognized for her ground-breaking consultant work in corporate, government, university, and nonprofit settings. The group is revered as a leader in Latino-focused diversity initiatives. She was one of a team of four who transformed a small immigrant clinic to a multisite, multicultural health and services agency currently valued at $1 billion dollars. Ms. Schlef believes that strong communication can forge lasting client relationships and facilitate change for projects of any size. |
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She completed a master’s degree and doctoral studies in communications, community relations and higher education administration at Antioch University Juarez-Lincoln Center and the University of Southern California. She earned a Columbia University Graduate School of Business certificate in High Impact Leadership: Maximizing Individual and Organization Performance. |
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She has institutional and nonprofit management and training certificates from the CASE Academy (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) and Kellogg-United Way. |
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She started her career as an intern and campaign aide with Senator Robert F. Kennedy who she considers her inspiration. She was a member of the 2018 RFK 50th Anniversary Planning Committee program that hosted more than 4,000 attendees in the Arlington Cemetery ceremony honoring the late Senator, Attorney General and presidential hopeful. She was the Department of Education’s first adult bilingual and immigrant education specialist and served by appointment to the Transition Team’s Civil Rights Task Force for the new U.S. Department of Education in 1979-80. She worked in the finance field as as Vice President of Marketing & Community Development, State of New York Mortgage Agency (SONYMA), a $10 million public/private company. |
