Meet Our
Team!

Mustafa Tameez

CEO & Founder

Paul Rivera

Vice President of Research & Account Services

Paul Rivera is a research and policy strategist, with more 30 years of expertise in strategic communications, qualitative and quantitative research, and data analysis. His research work has been critical to strategic decisions made by public, nonprofit, and private entities across the United States.

Paul is frequently sought after for his strategic input and wealth of knowledge. He is a veteran of four presidential elections, worked for the Clinton White House, and served as Senior Advisor and Communications Director for the New York State Senate. Paul holds his Bachelor’s degree from Hunter College of the City University of New York and a J.D. from the Fordham University School of Law.

Rogene Calvert

Principal

Ms. Calvert has dedicated her professional life to helping others through nonprofit leadership for more than three decades. From the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast to the Child Abuse Prevention Network to St. Luke’s Episcopal Charities to the Asian Chamber of Commerce, she has helped shape the direction of countless institutions and nonprofit entities across Houston. Her service led her to work as chief of staff for Houston’s Mayor Pro Temp Gordon Quan and as director of personnel and volunteer initiatives for Mayor Bill White. Her focus is on healthcare, nonprofit management, and economic and business development. Currently on the boards of the Asian American Health Coalition/Hope Clinic, Care for Elders, American Leadership Forum, OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates, and the University of Houston Hobby Center for Public Policy, she also provides leadership and guidance to Outreach Strategists’ clients. Her areas of expertise include nonprofit organizational management and startup; strategic planning and evaluation; program, community, and economic development; fundraising and grant writing; coalition building and coordination; and advocacy and public policy.

Linda Lorelle

Principal

Linda Lorelle is best known as an Emmy Award-winning journalist who anchored the evening news for nearly 17 years at Houston’s NBC affiliate, KPRC-TV. Linda is also a two-time winner of the prestigious national Gracie Award, given by the American Women in Radio and Television.

These days the Stanford graduate is an entrepreneur, running her multimedia production company, Lorelle Media, and serving as a Principal in Outreach Strategists. Lorelle Media is known for its masterful video storytelling, creating documentaries and other compelling content for corporate and nonprofit clients’ internal use, as well as for broadcast and online distribution.

Clients turn to Linda and her partners at Outreach Strategists for all aspects of strategic communications and customized consulting services that capitalize on the company’s vast network of global contacts. As co-founders of the Linda Lorelle Scholarship Fund, Linda and her husband, Lou Gregory, have awarded more than $4 million in college scholarships to 317 Houston area students. 2016 is the LLSF’s 25th anniversary year!

Michael Moore

Principal

Michael Moore is a respected leader and collaborator with over 29 years of experience in guiding external affairs and strategic communications for the public and private sectors. He served as campaign manager and eventually Chief of Staff to Houston Mayor Bill White, helping to manage the day-to-day operations for the fourth-largest city in the U.S. He also served as Senior Director of Communications and External Affairs for a top Fortune Global 500 energy company and managed the Houston operation for Hill + Knowlton Strategies, one of the world’s largest international public relations firms. Additionally, he was Regional Vice President for Texas Central Rail, working to bring high-speed rail to Texas, and a presidential appointee to the Department of Energy. Michael holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from The University of Texas at Austin.

At Outreach Strategists, he currently serves as a communications and public affairs advisor to both public and private sector clients.

Armando Cuevas Brun

Counsel & Managing Director International Public Affairs

Multicultural attorney and business advisor with over 15 years of experience, licensed and admitted to practice as an Attorney and Counsellor at Law in Mexico, New York, and Texas.

Armando has attended business and law schools in the US, Mexico, and Canada. His expertise lies in designing and implementing complex cross-border investment structures in multiple industries throughout the USMCA region. Fluency in Spanish and English languages, cultural understanding of the region’s business environments, and knowledge of both common and civil law enable Armando to advise companies and high net worth individuals to do business seamlessly across borders and industries.

Armando has experience on a broad range of high profile cross-border mergers and acquisitions, foreign investment, oil and gas, renewables, secured transactions, franchising, real estate, telecommunications, bankruptcy , financial restructurings, joint ventures, strategic associations, private equity, venture capital, corporate finance, anti-trust, banking, and finance matters, as well as corporate governance and compliance.

Ana Ulloa

Administrator

Ana is an experienced field organizer and political outreach coordinator focusing on nonprofit initiatives and communicating with diverse populations. She manages the field team at Outreach Strategist and synthesizes and analyzes data. Ana is a skilled tax preparer, she is also a trained CPA from Mexico, and a Texas certified paralegal.

Lorenza Carrillo Villaseñor

Director of Account Services

Lorenza Villasenor leads the Account Services team.  In this role, she works closely with clients to pinpoint their needs, and ensures the team is providing quality, economical solutions.  She also coordinates internal teams and manages budgets to reach client goals.  Ms. Villasenor is multi-talented, with a B.A. in Accounting and Finance and an A.A.S in Graphic Design.  

With nearly half a decade of experience on the Outreach Strategists team, Lorenza has overseen successful graphic design projects, creating meaningful, high-impact collateral for clients and has led teams to provide critical marketing insight for corporations, governmental entities, and nonprofit organizations.

Maggie Green

Senior Account Manager

Maggie Green is a program & project management professional with over 10 years of expertise leading, designing and managing public health programs.  Her collaborations and partnerships with both public and private organizations have led to the delivery of public health programs and services across Harris County and the 12 surrounding counties in the Greater Houston area.  Maggie has also worked on major healthcare initiatives and proposals including President Obama’s signature initiative – The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  This effort led to over 3.8 million people in Texas, selecting a plan in the healthcare marketplace during the initial open enrollment period.  Before joining Outreach Strategists, Maggie served as a Community Liaison at the City of Houston’s Health Department.  She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Master’s degree in Public Administration from Southern Arkansas University.

Tim Lankford

Sr. Manager Communications

Works closely with our clients to place their stories before local, statewide, and national media outlets. With more than 10 years experience in communications (including stints as reporter and producer at major broadcast outlets), Tim understands what makes a good story and what it takes to get prime pick-up. Clients he’s managed have netted more than $5 million in earned media attention.

Rebecca Block

The Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Rebecca Block brings more than 20 years of experience serving nonprofit organizations to her role as Chief Operating Officer of Outreach Strategists. She has supported organizations in a variety of capacities including strategic planning, communications, fundraising, program development, and engagement.  Her industry experience includes service in health and human services, fine arts, education, criminal justice, mental health, and leadership development.

Before joining Outreach Strategists, Rebecca served as the Vice President of Communications and Engagement for the American Leadership Forum where she led the organization’s communications strategies and developed programming for more than 1,400 senior-level leaders. Prior to that, she served as a Staff Consultant with Sterling, where she provided a variety of consulting services to more than 35 Houston-area nonprofit organizations, including support for operating and capital campaigns. 

Rebecca earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum.

Amanda Pope

Sr. Associate

Amanda is a Legislative Research Associate with Outreach Strategists. She is responsible for social media strategies and content creation as well as expanding operations across a number of online platforms and mediums. Through the preparing and commissioning of material for publication, Amanda helps craft messages and develop outreach plans for clients.

Amanda has a degree in Political Science and Psychology from Rice University, with wide political experience across the state of Texas. Amanda has experience both working on a number of campaigns across Texas well as experience working within Houston City Council.

Daniel Meza

Senior Manager Creative Services

Daniel brings nearly a decade of design experience and a B.A. in Design for Graphic Communication to Outreach Strategists’ clients. In his work, he creates visual concepts to captivate audiences.

He has brought his graphic design expertise to many projects including the design and refresh of a variety of communication materials. He is accomplished in designing branding, creative collateral for social media as well as editorial design. His expertise in advertising, editorial design and illustration enables him to develop versatile solutions to overcome any client challenge. Additionally, Daniel is fluent in both English and Spanish, enabling him to create materials in both languages.

Janet Torres

Associate

Janet Torres is an integrated designer, responsible for providing practical solutions for a wide range of projects, transforming client’s businesses into solid brands. From concept to execution and implementation, Janet is committed to helping brands communicate effectively, creating an emotional connection that translates the brand value.

Additionally, Ms. Torres is a skilled web designer who creates and enhances website functionality.  She designs strategic wireframes to develop the blueprint for each site, creates plans to deliver intended functionality and features, and structures content to drive increased engagement on each website.  Prior to working with Outreach Strategists, Janet worked for an agency that specialized in web content and development, building robust skills on web design and implementation.

Jorge Medina

Art director

Jorge Medina is a talented graphic designer who has worked with clients across many industries and sectors. As Art Director, Jorge ensures that each communication strategy provides solutions and addresses the unique needs of each client, defining and developing the overall visual identity for each project.  He has worked on significant rebranding campaigns for clients, conceptualizing creative materials, developing new logos and brand manuals, and creating compelling collateral. 

In his role at Outreach Strategists, Mr. Medina manages the graphic team and directs the creative process for clients.

Omar Khurshid

Manager

Responsible for providing Outreach Strategists clients with competitive political research and policy analysis. Omar helps clients achieve their goals through original content creation and project management.

Isobella Harkrider

Manager Communications

Isobella Harkrider is a recognized writer, connector, strategic thinker, and multimedia storyteller, with excellent communication, project management and media relations skills. She brings ten years of professional writing experience to Outreach Strategists, developing content across multiple mediums, and curating promotional plans and media outreach for clients across many sectors.

Melissa Platt

Associate

Claudia Morales

Manager

Claudia Morales is a Manager at Outreach Strategists. She works with clients to provide project management and delivery. She graduated in Government and International Relations from Cornell University, and previously worked as a Constituent Services Representative for Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher, where she assisted constituents with federal agencies, became a flood liaison for local agencies and the TX-07 community. 

Natalia Hernandez

Deputy Director Creative Services

Natalia Hernandez, an expert in project management, has vast experience in assertive communication and understanding different contexts to develop viable solutions for project cycles.  A bilingual professional, Natalia leads project management and the development of strategic solutions.  Recently, she brought her leadership to help a client raise awareness about a public health issue.  This involved creating a traditional and digital media campaign strategy including the development of original branding, outreach tools, creating ads, and complimentary audio and video, launching the campaign on different platforms and designing a tailored landing page on a campaign website.

Ms. Hernandez has a background in psychology and social studies and earned a Masters in social management and development. She enjoys working on projects with social impact and learning about new disciplines that help her discover new ways of working on different projects and addressing client needs.

Elizabeth Bradford Shaver

Mariana O’Farril

Mariana is a graphic designer, specializing in social media, animation and branding. She has worked in many different industries, providing practical and creative solutions for solving complex problems.

At Outreach Strategists, Mariana brings her graphic design skills to help clients convey their brands and critical messages. Her keen eye on selecting colors, images and typefaces helps to catch attention clients want to bring to their campaigns.

Mariana is fluent in both English and Spanish.

Luis Daniel

Luis Daniel Iniguez brings his proficiency with data analysis and research to Outreach Strategists.  Mr. Iniguez provides insights and synthesizes quantitative and qualitative outcomes for clients, providing them with results to improve the development and impact of their projects.

Luis Daniel has a background in urban studies with a perspective on sustainability. He has nearly a decade of experience as a strategic advisor, territorial intelligence planner, data analyst, and coordinator of various volunteer groups. In the community, he has served as a member of different academic, political, and nonprofit councils.

Adriana Antillón

Adriana is a multidisciplinary designer with a strong passion for photography, graphic design, illustration, and aesthetics in general. She has worked in multiple disciplines including photography, branding, editorial design and social media, among others.

In her work at Outreach Strategists, she brings fresh insights and ideas to each project, crafting unique designs for each project.

David Crowl

Mr. Crowl comes to Outreach Strategists from the City of Houston’s Housing and Community Development Department where he worked to end homelessness and provide services to the most vulnerable populations. Previously, he served as Vice President of Public Policy at the Greater Houston Partnership and VP at the Fort Bend Chamber.

At Outreach Strategists, David will serve as an Account Executive, working to lead client projects and initiatives.

David earned a Bachelor of Science from UT Austin in Urban Studies.  In the community, Mr. Crowl serves on the board of the Houston Heights Association.

Lisa Mayes

Lisa Mayes brings more than 2 decades of experience leading nonprofits, trade associations, and organizations in the private and public sectors to new business development for the company.  She has developed policy positions, strategy, legislation, analyses, and issue briefs, and worked on a variety of issues such as the state budget, education, criminal justice, natural resources, utilities and economic development.

Prior to joining Outreach Strategists, Lisa worked with several nonprofit organizations including the Texas Medical Center, Houston Methodist, Harris County Healthcare Alliance where she served as Executive Director. 

Lisa holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism/Radio-TV from Baylor University and is a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum. 

Rasheed Ahmed

Rasheed Ahmed is an innovative producer with  years  of  experience  in  all  aspects  of  video  production. He is a visionary creator editor, storyteller and  operations  manager with demonstrated ability to  take  an  idea from  concept  to delivery, to produce entertaining and inspiring pieces and newsworthy packages. Mr. Ahmed has expertise in pre production logistics, planning,  production, custom graphics composition,  special effects and asset management.

Rasheed shares this expertise with clients, creating engaging videos and telling critical stories.

Abraham Ayala

Abraham Ayala is a talented video creator for social media, news reels and short documentaries. Skilled in editing and cinematography, he reports on current events and is adept with all the latest video technology. He is also skilled in several other areas of production, including directing, writing, and editing for several productions and web-series. With thoughtful creativity, he aims to expand our clients’ brand awareness while providing compelling, insightful video content. He is proficient in several editing software programs and a skilled storyteller.

Abraham is also Bi-lingual in English and Spanish, with video experience in both languages.

Mariana Maciel

With nearly a decade of experience managing projects and serving clients, Mariana Maciel is dedicated to finding innovative solutions to complex problems. She has performed landscape analysis for clients in education and health care, assisting them in making informed decisions on promotional and marketing strategies. Mariana brings her excellent organizational skills to each project she oversees and enjoys all types of campaigns, especially those with a research-oriented approach.

Yaan Ahmed

Yaan Ahmed brings years of experience in graphic design, social media management as well as video production, audio engineering and editing to the team at Outreach Strategists.  He is experienced in the most current video and audio equipment, including drone piloting, as well as editing software including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign as well as Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Logic Pro X.  He is a gifted producer and skilled cinematographer, telling stories for clients to raise awareness and inform brand identity.