Felicia Burnett

About Felicia Burnett

Experienced public policy professional with 18 years of experience running high-impact and creative legislative advocacy campaigns. Skilled at movement building and developing strategic campaigns to influence cultural and public policy changes. Thrives on challenging opportunities to solve complex and interesting problems.Significant experience includes: storyteller relationship development and cultivation; direct and indirect lobbying; government and public relations; grasstops and grassroots organizing and coalition building; messaging strategy and public speaking; event planning; leading cross-functional teams; and grant writing and reporting.

Experience

1. National Director

   Momsrising.Org

   Jan 2019 — Present

   Manage national campaigns on multiple fronts, many simultaneously, including on COVID-19 response and vaccine roll-out, open enrollment, closing the Medicaid gap, making CHIP permanent, lowering prescription drug prices, ending surprise medical bills, both impeachment trials, and protecting our democracy. These campaigns have sparked hundreds of thousands of member actions.• Coordinate and lead multiple creative and attention-grabbing deliveries on Capitol Hill to Congressional offices which have garnered national media attention; lead groups of parents in meetings with lawmakers and staff to advocate for various health policy and democracy issues.• Draft grant proposals and write reports on the results and technology metrics of funded grants.• Special projects: Presented at UNIDOS U.S. and Georgetown CCF Conferences about our campaigns and storytelling process; Served on MomsRising’s health care working group to determine the benefits package for our employees; Served on the NC Steering Team.

Education

• North Carolina State University

  Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.), Public Administration

  2010 — 2012

• Weber State University

  BS, Psychology

  1999 — 2005

• North Carolina State University

  Graduate Certificate, Public Policy

  2010 — 2012

Skills

• Website Development
• Budgets
• Community Outreach
• Community Development
• Web Design
• Government
• Nonprofits
• Non-Profits
• Public Administration
• Project Management
• Message Development
• Proposal Writing
• Social Networking
• Volunteer Management
• Blogging
• Powerpoint
• Research
• Data Analysis
• Html
• Social Media
• Policy Analysis
• Web Content
• Technical Writing
• Php
• Access
• Newsletters
• Policy
• SEO
• Event Planning
• Strategic Planning
• Public Speaking
• Program Management
• Css
• Spss
• Customer Service
• Crm
• Fundraising
• Microsoft Office
• Grant Writing
• Leadership