We welcome Jesse Guardiola to the Live United podcast. He is the first Tulsa Area United Way (TAUW) Vice President of Community Relations and Impact. A key component of Jesse's role is to ensure that community needs and issues are understood while simultaneously fostering collaborative relationships with corporations, foundations, schools, nonprofit organizations, law enforcement, and various government agencies. As a member of several TAUW partner nonprofit Boards of Directors, Jesse has helped organizations like CAP Tulsa, Boy Scouts, and Street School with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. For the past 26 years, Jesse’s work as a business and workforce development strategist has benefitted the Hispanic and minority communities. Through his study of behavioral economics with an emphasis on immigrants and first-generations, he significantly increased minority applicants and hires in Tulsa's public safety departments by 91%. During his long career, Jesse established and served as the Tulsa Police Department's (first ever) Hispanic Outreach and Relations Director from 2009 to 2020. Utilizing empirical data, he successfully orchestrated a Hispanic Outreach Program that fostered mutually beneficial relationships with the Hispanic community. In 2013, he was awarded "Officer of the Year" for his community work and in 2019, Jesse's research and application design was selected from 700 other agencies nationwide. He was honored in Washington DC with a "Distinguished Medal" for innovative community policing strategies from the Attorney General's Office and Department of Justice.
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