Krystle Sieghart

Advise nonprofits, social-impact initiatives, campaigns, and mission-driven leaders on strategy, communications, partnerships, and organizational growth. • Develop advocacy, stakeholder engagement, communications, and partnership strategies aligned with organizational priorities. • Conduct research and synthesize complex information to support decision-making, external engagement, and public-facing strategy. • Translate complex social and institutional issues into accessible messaging, presentations, campaigns, and narrative materials. • Support leaders navigating partnerships, public visibility, organizational change, and community engagement. • Build workflows and planning systems that strengthen accountability and cross- functional execution.

Support strategy, partnerships, communications, and growth for a worker-centered food safety certification initiative focused on public health, worker rights, and economic equity. • Develop external messaging and stakeholder strategies connecting food safety, workforce equity, worker protections, and public health. • Build and support relationships with worker advocates, public agencies, nonprofit partners, and other stakeholders. • Translate complex certification, accreditation, workforce, and regulatory issues into accessible narratives for partners, funders, and decision-makers. • Support strategic planning, partnership development, funding narratives, and implementation across multiple workstreams. • Contribute to systems-change efforts designed to make certification and workforce pathways more accessible and equitable for workers.

Founded and led a Black-centered nonprofit focused on racial equity, healing justice, community empowerment, education, and institutional change. • Led organizational strategy, advocacy, community engagement, communications, partnerships, programming, fundraising, and operations. • Worked alongside Black community members to identify systemic concerns and develop strategies for institutional accountability and structural change. • Built relationships across public agencies, schools, funders, nonprofits, community organizations, educators, and local leaders. • Led organizational responses to incidents of anti-Blackness and helped move community concerns into meetings, public communications, institutional partnerships, and accountability efforts. • Played a leadership role in racial equity advocacy connected to public investment and community resources in Santa Barbara County. • Developed public statements, advocacy messaging, presentations, proposals, reports, funder narratives, and community-facing materials. • Facilitated conversations between community members, institutional leaders, and cross- sector partners on race, education, equity, belonging, and accountability. • Built coalitions and collaborative initiatives requiring coordination across grassroots organizations, institutions, agencies, and funders. • Supervised staff, interns, consultants, facilitators, and collaborative partners while managing multiple organizational priorities.

• Supported equity-centered initiatives involving students, families, educators, administrators, and community stakeholders. • Helped strengthen communication and collaboration between institutional and community partners. • Coordinated outreach, stakeholder engagement, and implementation across multiple priorities. • Contributed community-informed perspectives to institutional engagement and equity initiatives.

• Supported enterprise-wide equity initiatives, stakeholder engagement, internal communications, and cross-functional program implementation. • Developed communications and resources translating organizational priorities for diverse internal audiences. • Worked across teams to advance initiatives related to equity, belonging, organizational culture, and employee engagement.

• Led equity-centered programming and advocacy supporting Black, historically marginalized, formerly incarcerated, and system-impacted students. • Built relationships across students, faculty, staff, institutional leaders, and community partners. • Developed programs and engagement strategies addressing educational access, retention, belonging, and student success. • Supported students navigating institutional barriers through culturally responsive programming and relationship-based advocacy.

Social-Behavioral Human Subjects Research, Basic

CITI Program