Elizer Rios
Manassas,VA
Summary
Social justice campaign manager professional with several years of experience in community coalition management, social media content creation, and building social programs for marginalized groups. Possesses a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Vocal performance and general studies with an expertise in social media campaign management. Excellent communication and social organization skills that bring tangible offline change through online and in-person interaction.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Organizer
AMP (American Muslims for Palestine)
DC
07.2020 - Current
- Organized a successful Drive-In screening event of ‘The Occupation of the American mind’.
- Discuss the illegal Israel Lobby against Palestine as crime against humanity
- In charge of social media management to promote the event
- Build the space ready for around 50 people to attend the event
Store Manager
Nectar Bath Treats
Sherraton Waikiki, HI
08.2022 - 01.2023
- Lead daily store operations for retail ship located in the lobby of the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel.
- Managerial duties including but not limited to banking, accounts, product displays, inventory, orders received, scheduling and hiring.
Health Navigator
Waikiki Health
Honolulu, HI
12.2021 - 04.2022
- Assist and provide support to Transgender, Non-Binary and HIV+ patients navigate the healthcare system in on O’ahu.
- Provide gender identity and sexual orientation education.
- Implement a safe and autonomous environment for both employees and patients by reviewing company policy and procedures.
- Administer rapid HIV and HepC testing.
- Provide community outreach, resources and sexual education.
Social Justice Intern
FTP/ They Them Collective
DC
06.2020 - 01.2022
- Community led organizations working in the interests of providing both direct support to individuals in need, along with working to raise awareness for social justice issues through various lobbying tactics.
- Successfully identified key unserved community groups through offline and online networking- assessing the community needs
- Spearheaded a community led crowdfunding program to provide supplies to community groups also delegating the sourcing of supplies
- Encourage further outreach with organic grassroots tactics processing such as using google docs to sign up, filter, brief, and book volunteers- communicated via Signal App
Lead Sales Advisor
LUSH
McLean, VA
07.2019 - 01.2022
- Chiefly responsible for planning and executing stock and visual merchandising for the entire sales associate team. Collaborated with Con Mijente to talk about ICE and immigrant policies to the customers for Mi Casa Campaign
- Successfully manage all cash/TIL closing while organizing the sales floor team to reach optimal sales environment
- Accomplished the highest sales in the company for every sales competition
- Collaborate with all team members to streamline daily shift logs and accomplish target sales goals.
- Create a warm and welcoming environment with expertise in relationship building and soft skills
Contributor
Freedom Fighters
DC
05.2020 - 07.2020
- Through the height of the BLM 2020 movement, with motivation from protesting through marches, co-found Freedom Fighters DC. Creating the largest demonstration of 10k+ activists showing up and successfully organized closure of the entire city.
- Organically crowdfunded 200k dollars to the movement in a 34 hour period of time
- Spearheaded social media management that accumulated over 94k Twitter followers in a matter of 72 hour time period and 95k followers on Instagram
- Led community management of all social channels sharing daily relevant information and promoting numerous fundraisers
- In charge of creating safe spaces for meetups and organized all craft vendors for all community members
Director of Social Media
Statements, The Salon
Woodbridge, VA
07.2017 - 07.2019
- Coordinated salon marketing efforts including the use of local print advertisement and social media a key focal for development of “TheStatementProject.com”, a unique salon centric training tool
- Managed workflow for 40-person team, maximizing daily client throughout
- Performed customized hair services under the supervision and guidance of master stylist.
- Responsible for handling cash and card transactions along with till reconciliation and financial record keeping
Social Media Coordinator
VCface Beauty
Los Angeles, CA
09.2015 - 07.2017
- In charge of all social media management and responsible daily multi-media content to promote and grow the business.
- Utilize photography skills to capture all the processes of the business of a celebrity brow artist owned by Vanessa Ceballos
- Creating relevant on trend social media content
- Successfully maintained quick response rates of community management across all active social media platforms and developed a friendly
- Able to increase business to the salon by %15 over the course of one year
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Vocal Performance, General Studies
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA01.2012
Skills
- Skilled in office productivity software
- Image editing expertise
- Video Editing
- Social Media Planning
- Digital Media Strategy
- Email Marketing
- Cross-functional teamwork
- Customer Service
- Public Speaking
- Data Analysis/Management
- Visual content creation
- Effective outreach strategy development
- Effective relationship management
LANGUAGES
SPANISH Conversational Level
HEBREW Conversational Level
Interests
Social Justice, Abolition, Singing, Karaoke, Travelling, Meditation, Conversation/Debate
ACCOLADES
CO-FOUNDER Freedom Fighter DC 2020, HIGHEST SALES LUSH 2019-2021, OVERNIGHT SIT IN FREEDOM PLAZA Washington DC 2020
Timeline
Store Manager
Nectar Bath Treats
08.2022 - 01.2023
Health Navigator
Waikiki Health
12.2021 - 04.2022
Organizer
AMP (American Muslims for Palestine)
07.2020 - Current
Social Justice Intern
FTP/ They Them Collective
06.2020 - 01.2022
Contributor
Freedom Fighters
05.2020 - 07.2020
Lead Sales Advisor
LUSH
07.2019 - 01.2022
Director of Social Media
Statements, The Salon
07.2017 - 07.2019
Social Media Coordinator
VCface Beauty
09.2015 - 07.2017
Bachelor of Arts - Vocal Performance, General Studies
Virginia Commonwealth University