Cecilia Ferrara

Associate Director, Education @American Association for Justice

Washington, DC, US

Lead the development and design of National College of Advocacy (NCA) colleges, seminars, and webinars.• Guide, direct, and oversee NCA colleges, seminars, and webinars.• Supervise managers of seminars, colleges, and webinars, ensuring that operating schedules and other program and departmental deadlines are met.• Revise existing programs and recommend new programs.• Develop effective solicitation of program content ideas.• Develop and submit marketing ideas for programs.• Prepare, monitor, and manage individual program budgets.• Provide detailed program recommendations for following academic year.• Ensure annual and long-range scheduling of programs.• Create individual program budgets.• Review monthly income and expenditures; monitor program expenses.• Oversee hotel, logistical and administrative expense contracting.• Ensure accurate financial accounting of all assigned programs.• Attend and administer programs, as needed.• Develop and maintain relationships with program sponsors and vendors.• Reinforce state trial lawyers’ association relationships.• Determine program effectiveness and success through budget analysis, attendee feedback, and faculty feedback.• Maintain knowledge of the law and legal developments as related to civil trial practice.• Keep abreast of emerging technologies for virtual, livestreaming, on-demand, and in-person programming.• Monitor continuing legal education (CLE) programming by other organizations.

University of Maryland

Bachelor of Arts - BA