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.” |
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. |
Project Manager In her role as Project Manager for Campaign Consultation, Inc., Arthurine Walker works to advance community development and organizational capacity building, within the national and community service field. Her primary focus: community organizing, strategic action planning, program management and replication, facilitation and training.
She has just completed the development and delivery of two Communicators Institutes for Learn and Serve America grantees. In addition, the design, development and delivery of an e-Tool for AmeriCorps outreach is underway and a national outreach project to identify potential new grantees for the program has been completed. Annually, she is at work helping the Corporation for National and Community Service expand the national impact of the Martin Luther King Day of Service Initiative.
Ms. Walker has used her facilitation skills with the Building Community Institute for VISTA (Volunteers In Service to America) and at the Forum on College Student Volunteering for national service and community organizations. She has also worked on the development of an online presentation for Senior Corps programs regarding fundraising compliance with OMB Cost Principles.
She brings to Campaign Consultation twenty years of experience working with social-profits and government. Just prior to joining Campaign Consultation, she directed the outreach efforts of the Corporation for National and Community Service and served as an independent consultant for a diverse consortium of clients.
She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Baruch College, City University of New York and a Master of Arts in Intercultural Management from the School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT. Ms. Walker has a penchant for work as varied as youth development; professional development; teacher education; cultural exchange and fund raising. |
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. |
Social Media Specialist
Janessa Goldbeck serves as Social Media Strategist for Campaign Consultation, Inc. In her role as social media specialist, Janessa works on projects such as Martin Luther King, Jr.-Day of Service, the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, and The Mission Continues, and more.
Previously, Janessa directed grassroots and online strategy at the Genocide Intervention Network and the Save Darfur Coalition, global human rights advocacy organizations that seek to protect civilians from mass atrocity and genocide. Her employment of emerging technologies, social media, and innovative grassroots initiatives to affect political realities — at the state, federal and international level — has been featured in The New York Times, CBS Evening News, and The Washington Post, among others.
An experienced trainer, Janessa has designed and led online organizing, advocacy and communications workshops for community organizers, non-profit professionals and students around the world at the New Organizing Institute, Echoing Green Foundation, National Student Partnerships, National Service Communicators Institute, Alliance for Youth Movements and AmeriCorps.
Janessa is a Human Security Associate at Reboot, a firm that focuses on governance, international development, and civic media, senior fellow with the Alliance for Youth Movements, a Truman National Security Project Partner, a member of the New Leaders Council national board, and a graduate of Northwestern University. |
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 & Corporate Coordinator Stephanie Grocott is a skilled event planner and researcher. In her role as Project & Corporate Coordinator, 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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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.” |
Project Manager Michelle Bond has been working as a social change agent within diverse communities for the past 10 years. 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 a Project Manager with Campaign Consultation, she is responsible for content of training curricula and distance learning products. Specifically, she is managing content and development for AmeriCorps*VISTA initiatives including, the VISTA (Volunteers In Service to America) Campus, VISTA Outreach campaign with its e-newsletter, the Building Communities and Sustaining the Initiative Institute, the Wealth & Poverty curriculum and the eOrganizer. She has also managed 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.
Prior to joining Campaign Consultation, Ms. Bond worked for and/or collaborated on community development initiatives and developing curricula 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, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and VISTA Alum, lives in Baltimore City. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Public Relations for Nonprofit and a Masters Degree in Intercultural Communication. She believes that community service is a means of building communities and that intercultural exchanges across boundaries – real and imagined – provide powerful learning experiences and lasting social change. |
Senior Development Specialist
Based in Campaign Consultation’s Austin, Texas office, Mr. Townsend works with organizations focused on community development, international development, the environment, and disasters. Some of his current projects address agribusiness microenterprise, rural development strategies for marginalized communities, youth development, and supporting the White House Council for Community Solutions. Across projects, he offers expertise in evaluation and assessment, strategic planning, and stakeholder communications.
Having served in the Peace Corps and in executive roles for domestic and international entities, Mr. Townsend brings both dedication and a diverse background to Campaign Consultation and its clients. Prior to joining our team as a Senior Development Specialist, he was a primary international affairs executive supporting American farmers in a $650 million industry. Based in Manila, Philippines, he served as the country director and assistant director of the 20-country South Asia region for U.S. Wheat Associates, a USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Cooperator.
After Hurricane Katrina, Mr. Townsend was instrumental in Campaign Consultation’s development of the AmeriCorps*VISTA Ready Kit: Tools and Resources for Communities in Crisis and was a member of the White Ribbon Alliance National Working Group for Women and Infant Needs in Emergencies. He completed the first assessment of evacuee tent cities/IDP camps, which the National Commission on Children and Disasters cited in their 2010 Report to the President and Congress.
Mr. Townsend holds an International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance from Fordham University and the University of Geneva, a Master’s of Urban and Regional Planning from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Sociology from Millsap’s College in his home state of Mississippi.
Shane is an outdoorsman, a writer, and a fan of well-strung hammocks. |
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
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 & Corporate Coordinator Suzanne Knizner is an experienced event and project planner. In her role as Project & Corporate Coordinator, 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 is currently the Vice Chair of the Alumni Council Outreach Committee and a member of the McDaniel College Alumni Association Presidential Task Force. |
Business Development Coordinator 
Lorilei Barsh comes to us with a strong background in business administration and marketing. In her role as New Business Development Coordinator, she works directly with the President and CEO to coordinate all company marketing efforts.
Prior to joining the team at Campaign Consultation, Ms. Barsh held the position of Marketing Manager for a consulting firm that specialized in GSA schedules. In addition, she has also worked for Internet Strategy Group as the Traffic Coordinator. In her role at ISG, Ms. Barsh coordinated all teams, ensuring that projects were completed in a timely manner.
Ms. Barsh holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Salisbury University and is currently pursuing her MBA at the University of Baltimore and Towson University. She is a current member of the Salisbury University Alumni Association. When she is not at the office she can be found reading, blogging, attending events, volunteering, and enjoying the outdoors. |
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