Violetta is a confident communicator and strategist with over 15 years of experience managing cross-functional teams and projects. At Civic Edge she merges her communications and engagement know-how with her passion for climate change resilience and equitable urban planning by leading engagement and outreach efforts for multi-year resilience planning projects around the Bay Area.

Her diverse experience includes managing and growing a thriving hospitality business in San Francisco, coordinating cross-functional projects at Lyft, and implementing communications and engagement strategy for a social-impact nonprofit and for international clients while living abroad. She is skilled at creating structure from ambiguity, distilling information for target audiences, and building consensus. Violetta also brings extensive event production experience and a deep understanding of the Bay Area’s small business community.

Violetta holds a degree in Environmental Studies with a minor in Writing for Business Communication from UC Santa Barbara and speaks Italian and Spanish. A native San Franciscan, Violetta spends her free time swimming in the chilly SF Bay, urban hiking, and cooking.

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•    Clearly Communicating Complexity

•    Climate Change Resilience

•    Environmentally Conscious Event Planning

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•    San Mateo County Flood and Sea Level Rise Resiliency District (OneShoreline)

•    Port of San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Program

•    Bay Area Clean Water Agencies (BACWA)