Is the Founder of Diamond Heart Enterprises Consulting and acts as an Executive Board Member of Community Engagement. Spencer has been a retained Consultant and acting executive director for the Santa Ana Business Improvement District in the city of Santa Ana, CA, since 2014. In her role as a place manager, Spencer works to serve over 796 businesses, helping to shape Santa Ana's downtown business district. Spencer is passionate about building pipelines through collaborative design strategies and bridging network connections between communities and institutions such as schools, colleges, and local and regional governments. She has also recently worked extensively on public market development.
Spencer is a member of the Society for Community Research and Action and Placemaking US. Working at a crossroads of arts, culture, business, and technology, Spencer has facilitated a series of community-engaged processes and built an advocacy coalition to tackle issues of Homelessness. Spencer has worked with a responsible development coalition to write the policy that became the first transparency law in the City of Santa Ana, helped establish Santa Ana's first citywide, community-engaged Strategic Plan (2014), and built a coalition that advocated for and won the unanimous passage of Santa Ana's Wellness Resolution (2015). Participate in an Advisory Committee for the General Plan Update in the City (2016). Created a communication plan for fluid communications between 19 Nonprofit organizations in the city of Santa Ana through the BHC Hub. She started a comprehensive eight-part Art Round Table Series that resulted in the first Artist Registry within the City of Santa Ana as well as the first educational and municipal art show in the city. She Co-Created the first Open Access Regional Literary Festival in Orange County called Boca de Oro Festival of Literary Arts and Culture.
Graduating with a BA in Philosophy and English from Chapman University in Orange, CA (2008) and a master's degree in marriage and family therapy in 2011, Spencer currently has a double Master's degree in Counseling Psychology and Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology, Indigenous psychology, and ecopsychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute out of Carpentaria, CA. She is currently completing her dissertation for her PHD in the same area.
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