I am currently planning the Green Tie Gala, an annual gala hosted by the environmental clubs and organizations at Western Washington University. The Gala is meant to celebrate the efforts of the environmental clubs to make Western more sustainable and advocate for increased sustainability at Western. Each year the Gala follows a different theme, and this year’s theme is food systems and farmworker justice.
Some tasks and duties that I am involved in to plan this event:
- Organizing and facilitating preliminary and checkpoint meetings
- Establishing event theme, submitting publicity requests and meeting with designers
- Writing speakers and performance contracts
- Managing Exemption Requests for catering, organizing with outside groups to plan catering services.
- Organizing decorations and event atmosphere
- Day-of logistics; time management for both set up, event emcees, and tear down
- Outreach to community and campus. This includes organizing tabling, flyering, sending reps to do classraps, phonebanking and social media outreach.
- Creating and sending press releases, feature pitches, and PSA’s for local media