I’ve spent 15+ years running creative and strategic communications teams, winning industry awards, and driving real life results across the dynamic ecosystem of digital communications.
These days, I help scientists tell stories and help organizations figure out how to show up in the world because I care about putting ‘capital G’ good into the world with my career. Let’s work together!
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From pure #stratcomms, to complex health care delivery, I’ve expanded contract footprints (several hundred thousand dollars at a time), landed contracts in new offices (3x!), and managed complex health care delivery proposals from the RFI stage, to LOE scoping, to final white glove review and submission.
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Comms, project managers, clinical subject matter experts, oh my! I’ve worked with the most technical of health care projects (think biostatistics pipeline building and tumor tissue repositories) to providing strategic direction for the communication teams (writers, editors, designers, videographers) embedded alongside. Personnel management comes easily to me - resulting in direct reports receiving back-to-back promotions and folks “finding their groove” on my projects.
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Seeing the board and engaging with the right organizations - nothing beats the moment of authentic connection between audiences. I’ve worked to effectively align private organizations like the American Cancer Society, the American College of Radiology, and Duke University, with federal organizations like the Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
I work at the highest level of strategic engagement and communications - most recently supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs and their progress towards the Biden Administration’s Cancer Moonshot.
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I’m best when I can “see the board” - making decisions and setting up systems that get people what they need so they can deliver incredible communications and outreach products. I know how to tell the story so people care, and I know how to get the team just as invested in it.
When I join an organization, I absorb its primary tenants and messages so that no matter the situation, I can articulate them back to the audience in a way that resonates.
Over the course of the past 3 years, I’ve lead my teams to over 15 communications industry awards, including an EMMY.
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One time, I briefed the Office of the First Lady … after having gotten one of those “are you joining this call?” IMs.
I got the approval I needed for key activities, even if I didn’t manage to get a suit jacket on before joining.
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Need a media strategy? Trying to reach an historically underserved population? Not sure how to make genomic sequencing interesting?
I’ve done it all - from the highest levels of government communications (congressionally mandated reports, presidential budget narratives) to localized outreach about breast cancer screening in Native American/Alaska Native Veteran women.
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Have you ever had: “Hey, do you have that draft charter from the biolab project team that only one person signed?” come across your Teams’ chat from a senior leader, and then break out into a cold sweat because you have no idea where it is?
It happens to the best of us - and, you need a system to make you and your team perform optimally.
My systems are legendary within the organizations I support. Solve the systems problem once, and then equip folks with the flexible framework that drives the work forward.
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