CivicActions

Mirasol Mercado joined CivicActions in April 2007 as the team's Virtual Office Admin, bringing over 15 years administrative experience from the private, public, and small business sectors. Receiving her B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Marketing from CSU East Bay, she has been there, done that and bought the t-shirts to prove it (many of which you may still find her wearing). Her experience spans all levels from administrative analyst and program development, to executive & team support -- and she is always ready to broaden her experience further, most specifically into the exciting world of Drupal to gain better insight into CivicActions’ clients and our cool techs who write code for them.

Mirasol has developed alternative commute programs for a major University which involved grant writing, budget tracking and communications liaison with local transit agencies. In the corporate world of "cube farms" she worked for a leading touch-screen company providing executive support to the R&D team, and in the buying office of a major retailer where she analyzed sales trends which were used as purchase recommendations by the department’s Buyers. Her experience with small businesses involved developing administrative and operations procedures for a small start-up, and assisting a communications design firm specializing in social service agencies. Fortunate to amass such broad administrative knowledge from rock-&-rollers she has worked with and worked for, Mirasol continues to provide administrative expertise and management support to CivicActions’ team of go-getters.

When away from her computer, Mirasol enjoys crafting and trying her hand at organic gardening with her family, or heading to the beach where you can find her participating in beach clean-ups as a Surfrider member or enjoying the beauty of the Pacific Coast as her kids boogie- and skim-board to their hearts’ content.