Sentient Media is a nonprofit journalism organization working to create transparency around human and nonhuman animal lives and the impact of animal agriculture on our current planetary crisis.Our core mission is to increase public awareness of key issues that matter to everyone: the welfare of all sentient beings, the health of our planet, and the health and longevity of our species.

PYPR is a digital storytelling agency providing strategic content consultancy and production for clients ranging from startups to large companies to build and nurture communities on and offline. Here are some of our recent projects:Doteveryone, Interim lead for Gender Parity in Tech (Dec 2015 - Aug 2016)Doteveryone is an independent charity established by Baroness of Soho, Martha Lane Fox. They are fighting for a fairer internet and a more inclusive tech ecosystem. I worked with Doteveryone to form their launch strategy. My role was to research existing communities with overlapping goals, and connect with them by establishing a series of events. These events enabled us to create our message and begin to build an effective network to pursue change.Here East, Social & community consultant (January 2015 - present) Here East is a home for those who work in technology, education and creative industries. It covers 1.2million sqft on London’s 2012 Olympic Park. Since 2015, PYPR has been working with digital agency Poke to design, build, and implement an agile content strategy using a variety of platforms.Responsibilities:- Create social strategy for long and short form content targeting Here East audience groups, from CEOs to makers and local residents.- Design social content for Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Periscope, YouTube and LinkedIn. - Overseeing daily management of all social accounts.Other clients: Organisations come to PYPR when they need help understanding the startup tech landscape and want to engage with the community. We help them achieve this through curating and designing events, creating content strategy and through video documentation. We’ve delivered these services for British Council, Digital Catapult, Wired Sussex, Plexal, Maker Assembly, CrowdJustice, CTRLio, BuggyAir, IoTA & IoT Meetup.

Do it Now Now help organizations create social impact in Black communities around the world through events, mentorship, consultancy and thought leadership.

I partnered with Alexandra Deschamps Sonsino for one year to help her deliver IoT consultancy, design and projects to clients including Nominet, Intel, Tech City UK, British Gas, Digital Catapult, Imago TechMedia and ODI. Projects included research and thought leadership pieces, event organisation working with the growing IoT community in the across the UK.

Shoreditch Works is a co-working space in East London for creatives, tech startups and freelancers.Responsibilities: - Building the paying membership of the company by growing our extended on and offline community through long form content, social media, events and PR. - Pitching to potential investors such as Pivotal Labs, Music Metric and Facebook to gain financial support for our expansion into larger venues- Office Management: building a team to deliver a smooth-running office, overseeing company accounts, designing and implementing operations processes Achievements: - Grew the membership from 30 to over 400 people - Raised over £90,000 through a Kickstarter campaign to open a ‘village hall’ for our community. I concepted the video, wrote the copy, secured support from high profile funders (Facebook, SAP, BBC), created and implemented social strategy, organised the launch event and delivered the rewards on completion. - Responded to relevant news cycles to further the brand as part of our social strategy. For example, I led a campaign against Sir Eric Pickles’ attempt to change planning permission laws in Shoreditch that would negatively impact our members and appeared on BBC London to argue the case.- Designed and produced a series of events to enable our community to network, gain expertise, and help them succeed.

Whilst studying for my degree, I established TVBomb, an online arts magazine covering theatre, lm and music events in Edinburgh and Glasgow. I built and managed a team of 30 volunteers to help run the site and create carefully curated content. Building TVBomb, I learnt how to create an online media pro le and build a community around the product. On my departure, I handed responsibility to a group of university students who have since rebranded. We were achieving around 15,000 uniques a month with no paid promotion.

Redmonk is an industry analyst company who advises large corporate businesses such as Microsoft, Adobe and IBM.As an executive assistant I did day-to-day admin work and attended meetings with clients.Community outreach: RedMonk wanted a way to track talent in the area soI started a meetup; “RedMonk Developer Lunches”. I reached out into the dev community, especially women, and held a monthly lunch. I tracked skills, expertise and recorded attendees thoughts on Audioboo to tweet out throughout the month.

Mori provide independent market research for a variety of organisations from tabloids to the BBC. They track ad effectiveness and brand equity for companies worldwide including Gucci, Coca-Cola and MTV.My role was to supervise and coach interviewers on their telephone manner, providing strict qualitycontrol and motivation for the different teams that I worked with. Making sure the research was carried out to high standards so we could provide accurate results, including pre-election polls.