President 
Ms. Rivelis is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) with more than 30
years fundraising experience with such organizations as American Red
Cross, Johns Hopkins Kennedy Krieger Institute and Maryland Institute
College of Art. She is skilled at helping individuals and organizations
to improve their abilities to raise resources and build volunteer power.
Linda
Brown Rivelis was instrumental in leading volunteers to Arolsen,
Germany to found the National Holocaust and War Victims Tracing and
Information Center, on behalf of American Red Cross. She has trained
people from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean region on how to build
the Third Sector/Nonprofit Sector in their countries through leadership
development, volunteerism, fund raising, marketing and advocacy.
Ms.
Rivelis is integral to the development and training of curriculum for
Campaign Consultation’s SustainAbility agreement with the Corporation
for National and Community Service. Ongoing first-hand experience is
critical to dynamic curricula and facilitation. For instance, recently
she and associates completed a feasibility study regarding the
likelihood of the corporate and foundation community in Washington,
D.C. responding to a $3.5 million campaign for a community development organization. In addition, she and volunteers are currently raising $1.5 million for a community based learning center.
In the final analysis, she says:
“Campaign Consultation is dedicated to helping people who do good, do better.” |
Vice President
Michelle Bond has been working as a social change agent within diverse communities for more than a decade. Her primary focus: engaging communities of people – whether social profits or government; urban or rural; national or global – in development, consensus-building and behavior-changing initiatives. As Vice President, she is responsible for cultivating relationships, overseeing client portfolios, project management, program design, and staff development.
During her time at Campaign Consultation, she has been responsible for designing content of training curricula and distance learning products across a variety of projects. Currently, she manages training material for AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers In Service to America) initiatives including: Social Media efforts to connect and engage current members and Alumni, hosting and facilitating monthly webshops on developing capacity-building skills and leveraging social media platforms for social change, and managing content development for the VISTA Campus, AmeriCorps VISTA’s web-based training platform.
Some of her past projects include creating and editing the Viewfinder, VISTA's online publication; developing the Building Communities and Sustaining the Initiative Institute; the Wealth & Poverty curriculum; and several web-based learning tools (GIZMOs). She has also coordinated the 2007 Best Practices Conference for AmeriCorps National, the 2007 New Directors Orientation program for Senior Corps, and was instrumental in development of the website for the 2008 National Conference on Volunteering and Service: The Urgency of Now.
Prior to joining Campaign Consultation, Ms. Bond worked on community development initiatives with: The United States Peace Corps; Habitat for Humanity; Baltimore City Government; University of Maryland; The Landslide Mitigation Group; National Council for International Visitors; Sargent Shriver Peaceworker Program, and The Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Ms. Bond is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, VISTA Alum, and former Shriver Peaceworker Fellow. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Public Relations for Nonprofit and a Masters Degree in Intercultural Communication. She lives in Baltimore City, runs marathons, and believes that service is a means of building communities and that intercultural exchanges across boundaries – real and imagined – provide powerful learning experiences and lasting social change. |
Finance and Operations Manager
Demetria Barrett has a true affinity with non profits and small businesses. Her commitment to making a change, growing small businesses and volunteering her skills are noted throughout Baltimore City. In addition, Demetria comes to us with a seasoned background in financial accounting, internal audits and OMB Regulations. Prior to joining Campaign Consultation she worked for Surgi-Center, Hamilton Associates, Peak Technologies and as a financial consultant with the Barrett Masterson Group.
As Finance and Operations Manager, Ms. Barrett is responsible for managing all functions pertaining to finance, facilities, and operations necessary to maintain an effective, efficient, and sound corporate environment.
Ms. Barrett holds a Bachelor Degree in Financial Accounting from the University of Phoenix where the concept of team work was cultivated into a way of life. As a member of Rotary International Baltimore Chapter, the motto is service before self and she is committed to Campaign Consultation’s mission of helping clients create and sustain specific outcomes. |
Social Media Specialist Danielle Ricks has over 25 years of media and communications experience, specializing now in Social Media. Using online media tools, Danielle develops marketing and communications plans that build relationships, strengthen customer service, and increase brand recognition. Danielle’s goal is to help corporations expand their reach via websites, blogs, podcasts, social networking, bookmarking, and various other social media tools. Danielle also helps organizations transition from traditional forms of marketing and communication to emerging new media technologies.
In her current role as a Social Media Specialist for Campaign Consultation, Inc Danielle works to deepen the relationship within the AmeriCrops VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) community while building their online brand recognition. Leveraging Social Media for social good, Danielle uses the digital space to enable VISTA to share stories and promising practices, bring awareness to poverty issues, cultivate new relationships, create support networks, discover critical resources and tools and connect with other service communities.
Danielle has a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from Howard University and has worked in her field for over two decades, having produced for the likes of Walt Disney World Entertainment, ABC, CBS, and Black Entertainment Television, along with corporations such as Coca-Cola, AT&T, and Boost Mobile. Danielle has successfully managed successful projects delivering outstanding results. As the communication industry began to change, however, Danielle immersed herself in all forms of new media technology and began to “live” online. Her client base expanded to include companies that wanted to broaden their online presence via social media and learn about the new technologies.
Throughout her professional life Danielle has dedicated herself to bringing the audiences she produces for and the companies she works with innovative new concepts. Danielle states, "As I continue my career, my goal is to inform, involve, and inspire people through all forms of Social Media outlets that stimulate the senses, invoke provocative and positive thinking and ultimately impact social change.”
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Project Specialist
Andrea Smid comes to Campaign Consultation with a strong background in social work and community organizing. In her role as project specialist Andrea assists with project research, content development and other support for the Social Innovation Fund, Martin Luther King, Jr.-Day of Service and other projects.
Prior to joining Campaign Consultation, Inc., Andrea was involved with the Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland-Baltimore where she was responsible for helping families gain access to resources, coordinating and planning parent workshops, developing programmatic materials and identifying community mental health supports. Andrea is also a former Peace Corps health volunteer who served in The Gambia working on maternal and child health care projects.
Andrea holds a B.A. in both anthropology and sociology from the University of Montana. Andrea also holds a M.S.W. from the University of Maryland-Baltimore with a specialization in social outreach and community organizing. Andrea is a licensed social worker in the state of Maryland. |
Project Specialist
Julia Freed Krieger serves as Project Specialist at Campaign Consultation. She works primarily on projects involving the Office of Minority Health and the Social Innovation Fund.
Prior to joining Campaign Consultation, Julia served as a Program Manager at the International Youth Foundation, where she provided technical assistance to community-based NGOs globally through training, webinars, conferences, and development of curricula and support materials. Her portfolio included youth reproductive health, HIV prevention, life skills and livelihood development initiatives funded by Wrigley, Johnson & Johnson, World Learning and USAID in the Philippines, Sri Lanka, India, Jordan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Russia, Poland, Spain, St. Lucia, and Peru.
Julia is a former Peace Corps volunteer who worked on health and social affairs projects in the Federated States of Micronesia. She has also served as a Regional Coordinator for AFS Intercultural Programs and worked as a graduate intern for the Belair-Edison Neighborhoods, Inc. in Baltimore City. Julia holds a Master’s degree from the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Social Work, with a focus on Management and Community Organization. |
Project Specialist
Suzanne Knizner is an experienced event and project planner. In her role as Project Specialist, she coordinates all aspects of workshop/training development and delivery; conducts research for proposals and programs; and ensures that tasks are on schedule, budgets are on target, and events run smoothly.
Prior to joining the Campaign Consultation team, Ms. Knizner worked for The Archdiocese of Baltimore Division of Catholic Schools Marketing Office, where she served as the lead agent for multiple large events and created numerous publications.
Ms. Knizner holds a B.A. in Communication from McDaniel College and serves the McDaniel College Alumni Association as the Presidential Task Force Outreach Committee Chair. |
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Chief Executive Officer
“We are living in a new age, which requires a new body of knowledge, a new way of thinking, and a new set of strategies to address today’s complex inter-related challenges. Campaign Consultation is equipped to help individuals and systems advance their agenda in this ultra quick-changing environment.”
Steven Rivelis has been helping people adapt to change and meet goals for over a quarter of a century. He provides marketing and message development assistance to NASA and Youth Build USA, strategic and action planning assistance to Population Action International and Family Care International, and diversity training/coaching to the International Monetary Fund and ChevronTexaco.
He coaches civic and business leaders from Central America, Africa, the Middle East and post-Soviet nations on tools and techniques for creating social change using the “Winning Movements” curriculum he developed. One of his proudest achievements is drafting and successfully lobbying for the passage of the nation’s first Motor Voter Registration law.
Mr. Rivelis served as the "architect" of a meeting between leaders from forty-five national organizations, resulting in a BLUEPRINT: for a National Multi-Disciplinary Prevention Agenda. He created the TOOL BOX for Collaborative Campaigns. He also served as one of the principal developers of the Institute for Partnership Development as well as the Recipes for Building Community Institute.
Mr. Rivelis shares his social change knowledge with graduate students as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, where he teaches a graduate class on communities and systems. He is also a permanent faculty member to the Virginia Supreme Court. His talent at helping people identify and develop the action steps needed to create desired change is evident in his work in shaping the content for the White House’s landmark website www.USAFreedomCorps.gov. This one-click away resource is referred to as “the most comprehensive network of volunteer resources for nonprofits, service organizations and corporations ever assembled.” |
Vice President
Arthurine Walker works on building the capacity of communities and engaging citizens to address today's most complex and compelling social issues. Her work is focused on community organizing and development; strategic action planning; organizational capacity building; marketing, communications and outreach; program management and replication; and facilitation and training.
She has been instrumental in helping the Corporation for National and Community Service expand the national impact of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, as well as manage the outreach and communications function for the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. Ms. Walker serves as the project manager for Campaign Consultation's role as the communications technical assistance provider to the National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities, a project of the Office of Minority Health in the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Ms. Walker has developed three Communicators Institutes to assist national service grantees in telling their story through traditional and social media and is currently working with the Social Innovation Fund on expanding its communications strategy. She assisted with the launch of the White House Council for Community Solutions and provided on-going support for the Council’s work. Ms. Walker managed the design and development of on-line tools for the National Summer Learning Association to promote its Summer Learning Day and Smarter Summers initiatives.
She brings to Campaign Consultation over twenty years of experience working with social-profits and government. She previously directed the outreach efforts of the Corporation for National and Community Service; worked in community development training and facilitation; diversity training; professional development coaching; teacher education; cultural exchange; youth development; expanding minority student access to college and medical school; and fund raising.
She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Baruch College, City University of New York where she focused on marketing and journalism and a Master of Arts in Intercultural Management from the SIT Graduate Institute in Brattleboro, VT. |
Project Specialist 
Robyn Stegman serves as Project Specialist at Campaign Consultation, Inc. Before joining Campaign Consultation, Robyn was the Associate Director of Civic and Global Engagement at Mary Baldwin College where she oversaw efforts to deepen students’ understanding of local, national, and international issues by fostering service-learning initiatives and strengthening the relationship between the college and the local community. She also served for two years as an AmeriCorps*VISTA with Learn and Serve – Michigan and North Carolina Campus Compact.
Ms. Stegman has always been active in her community and has had the chance to try her hand at many different aspects of social change from preserving historic documents at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library to founding Geeks for Good, an organization that matches nonprofits with tech savvy volunteers. Throughout her career, she has worked with 21 nonprofit organizations to create new websites, marketing materials, campaigns, and programs that help build relationships, empower change makers, and create strong, vibrant communities. Ms. Stegman continues this work by serving on the board of LetsBmore, Baltimore’s first time bank, on the Advisory Visitors Board at Mary Baldwin College, and as the Alumni President of the Social Innovation Program at the Mason Center for Social Entrepreneurship.
Robyn holds a B.A. in International Relations from Mary Baldwin College. When she is not serving her community, Ms. Stegman can be found traveling, preparing locally grown meals, or training for her next triathlon. |
Project Specialist
Sharon Rabb brings over twenty years’ experience in fundraising to Campaign Consultation, Inc. More than half of that time has been spent in higher education institutions, and the remainder with religious and social service organizations. Her first professional experiences were as a high school English teacher and a television copywriter.
Originally from Boston, Ms. Rabb came to Baltimore from Atlanta, GA. She was employed by Oglethorpe University in Atlanta for nine years where she coordinated capital campaigns for $18 million and $36 million.
She holds a Master of Arts in Nonprofit Management from The College of Notre Dame of Maryland. With an academic interest in women as social change agents, her thesis title was The Role of Women in Philanthropy. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Education from the University of Massachusetts Boston.
As a Project Specialist with Campaign Consultation, Ms. Rabb is charged with the development and implementation of fundraising curricula and other campaign projects. |
Project Specialist
Shannon McGarry serves as Project Specialist at Campaign Consultation. She works primarily on projects involving the Office of Minority Health and the Martin Luther King, Jr.-Day of Service as well as other projects.
Shannon McGarry is a well seasoned, creative and passionate agent for social change. She has extensive experience in crafting innovative health communication strategies, directing grassroots fundraising campaigns, designing training programs, developing resources, and facilitating trainings on community mobilization and project management.
Prior to joining Campaign Consultation, Inc., Ms. McGarry was instrumental in opening the first private school in Lethem, Guyana. She is also a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Guyana where she served 15 communities as a Health Promotion Advisor to the Guyana Hinterland Community Based Water and Sanitation Project. She designed and implemented interventions that resulted in an average reduction of 16% of water-borne illness per community. Ms. McGarry has worked as a Canvass Director for both Working America and the Working Families Party.
Ms. McGarry holds a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management and Leadership from the University of Missouri as well as a BA in International Development from the University of New Hampshire. |
Project Specialist 
Jasmine Touton brings experience in social media, journalism, and national service initiatives to the Campaign Consultation team. In her role as project specialist, Jasmine develops content, executes technical trainings and assists with communications/social media plans for Martin Luther King, Jr.-Day of Service, the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, and other projects.
Prior to joining the Campaign Consultation team, Jasmine served as Social Media Coordinator and a Communications Mentor at The Campus Kitchens Project, a national program headquartered in Washington, D.C. During that time, Jasmine was responsible for gaining and maintaining volunteers through the use of new media, providing communications training to student leaders, strategizing for and executing communications plans and developing the curriculum for on-site events and trainings. Jasmine has also written profiles and lifestyle articles for Washingtonian and Baltimore magazines.
Jasmine holds a B.A. in Print Journalism from American University. Beyond the office, Jasmine can be found taking an active role in her club water polo team, following the latest in social media and food issues, and snapping pictures. |
Project Specialist
Stephanie Grocott is a skilled event planner and researcher. In her role as Project Specialist, she plans national conferences, edits training curricula, conducts research, and works on development initiatives for Campaign Consultation clients and its corporate officers.
Prior to joining the Campaign Consultation team, Ms. Grocott worked as an associate in the Commercial Trucking Industry where she was instrumental in consumer marketing, planning and organizing training seminars and materials, and market research.
Ms. Grocott holds a Bachelor of Science in both Psychology and Political Science from Towson University. During her college experience, Stephanie took the opportunity to live abroad while gaining an Independent Studies degree from Sunderland University, in England. |
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