Vanessa is a current student, Black Leader Fellow, and McGrath Scholar at the University of San Francisco, where she is on track to graduate with a BA in International Business with a heavy focus on culture competency. Throughout her academic and work career, she has successfully combined her love for community organizing, people building, and innovative thinking to help companies find solutions to their problems.

She has worked on a number of marketing and event teams, galvanizing people power to illuminate brand identity rather than assign it. She has worked with Toasted Life to help execute their sponsored events, including the Black Project Manager Conference by Meta. She has worked with SOON, a beta startup, to start their social media presence from scratch — growing to have 40,000+ followers in 6 months.

In her role as Digital Marketing Coordinator at Alliance, she supports the Marketing & Communications team with public communications including social media, email marketing, and digital community-building initiatives.