Felton

Skills

Digital: Microsoft OS, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Google Chrome/ Safari/ Internet Explorer, Adobe Suite (Adobe Lightroom), Google Suite (Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides), Canva, VAN (Voter Action Network), EveryAction, Project Management-- Asana (i.e building data processing workflows), and Catalist (for vendors-- validating source data, i.e voter data; and acquiring, processing, and documenting available data types) and L2 (Voter Mapping).

Research, analytics, writing, editing

Language: Fluency in French and Haitian Kreyol

About

Professionally, I am a graduate of Florida International University with previous customer service, sales and administrative/office experience as well as an intermediate knowledge of computer programs and software; and as an English major, I also possess strong research, analytical and writing skills. As it relates to progressive politics– and politics, more broadly– over the years, I've both organized within the field of social justice activism, having both volunteered, and worked paid positions, for a number of community groups and nonprofits, on various socio-political and economic conundrums facing our nation– from immigration reform to voting rights to climate justice to prison reform/decarceration, and have been part of campaigns, locally and across the country. What initially, and most, got me involved in such work, personally, was my having grown up in Miami Gardens and Little Haiti-- predominantly Black, Latinx, and lower-income neighborhoods in South Florida-- and having witnessed firsthand the disparate impacts of the aforementioned societal issues on such communities, which grew within me a powerful desire to help remedy the problem. Indeed, this activism has allowed me to gradually develop, and possess, a more radical and transformative socio-economic and political analysis of the larger world, altogether reflecting what I believe is the genuine need for greater equity within our society-- for peoples of all creeds and backgrounds, and as a means of addressing the structural barriers inherent within our institutions and its subsequent policies– and which have, historically, disproportionately impacted marginalized communities based on race/ethnicity, class and gender/sexual orientation. Because of this-- and because of the current reality of global digitization we face-- I've aimed towards combining my overall experience and skills into a career fusing tech/data and politics.