Julian Liu

Development and implementation of union’s social media growth strategy and campaigns strategy.

Management of union’s social media properties: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr.

Social media capacity building (trainings, workshops, one-on-one advice) for staff and members.

• - Achieved high growth in social media properties: Doubled Facebook and Twitter following, tripled Instagram followers.
• - Developed targeted social media capacity building curricula for range of skill levels from first-time smartphone users to experienced users.

Launched campaign's digital presence: Facebook, Twitter.

Maintained campaign website

Social media capacity building for community partners (grassroots civil rights and police accountability organizations)

• Leveraged social media to lift profile of City Council police reform package - Community Safety Act. Legislation successfully passed in 2013.

Managed portfolio of $400K in grants to 20 organizations in seven countries throughout Asia region. Sourced new grants, evaluated proposals, conducted project assessment and site visits.

• Facilitated knowledge exchange between grantees, including preparation and coordination for international workshop on young women’s entrepreneurship in Ahmedabad, India with 25 participants from South and Southeast Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. Developed country level grant-making strategy.
• Launched foundation’s grant-making programs in China and the Philippines.

Launched new program to advance recognition of access to clean water as a fundamental human right, including background social and economic research.

Assisted in planning and logistical coordination for an emerging international network of human rights organizations and social movements focused on economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR-Net). Developed information-sharing technologies, including a bilingual online database of case law.

• Co-authored NGO report on the human right to water in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Developed content for World Health Organization publication, “The Human Right to Water.”

Fundraising: wrote government and foundation grants; conducted supportive research for proposals;

Administration and design for direct-mail fundraising program;

Publisher of nationally distributed quarterly focused on prison and criminal justice issues including development, solicitation and editing of articles; design and production, obtaining bids from and managing relations with vendors.

• Completed a complete visual redesign of the paper as well as increased its publication frequency from once a year to quarterly.
• Curated the organization’s first annual prisoners’ visual arts competition and exhibition.

Produced and translated materials for a Chinese-language labor issues journal for researchers and academics. Maintained organization’s bilingual website. Conducted interpretation and translation for events and conferences for one of the first independent NGOs in Mainland China focusing on labor issues.