Co-founder and content leader for City Cast, a rapidly growing national network of local podcasts and newsletters, now in 13 cities. Oversee a staff of 50+. Company owned by Graham Holdings Company. -Developed from scratch a vision for local podcasts and newsletters that foster local journalism and encourage civic engagement. -Hired a highly diverse and talented staff of local creative teams across the country, at a rapid pace.-Built a culture of constant learning, experimentation, and kind but direct feedback. -Developed strategies for rapid scaling – such as templated onboarding and host and producer trainings.-Helped create audience growth strategies and ad campaigns that drive email acquisition and podcast discovery.-Helped design advertising offerings for companies looking to reach City Cast’s listeners and readers. -Led the development of company values, and an onboarding process that ensures they’re made real.-Designed systems and processes to quickly onboard production teams.

Leader of transformative change at Washington DC’s NPR station. Responsible for a budget of $10.3 million and a staff of 70. Included regional newsroom, national and local talk show programming, podcasts and digital content. -Nearly doubled the station’s revenue from $20 million to $38 million through audience growth, membership growth, and sponsorship expansion. -Led the creation and launch of 1A, now one of NPR's most successful daily shows, as part of the successful transition of iconic radio program The Diane Rehm Show. -Secured $5.3 million grant to lead Guns & America, national collaborative reporting project in which reporting fellows at 10 public media stations report on the role of guns in American life; one of the projects won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize. -Created podcast accelerator "The Pod Shop" to incubate local amateur audio storytelling; it resulted in multiple successful podcasts including Dish City which won the 2022 James Beard award for audio programming.-Led the acquisition of digital local news site DCist and relaunched it with successful new business model.

Founder and leader of Rewire, an innovation unit focused on bringing public media to life for digitally native audiences through live events, digital content, and interactive broadcasts. My role included digital strategy, partnership-building, fundraising, planning, public speaking, and executive production of content such as the experimental live TV series TV Takeover, the multi-producer web series Are You MN Enough?, and the upcoming "Skyway Sessions." I also oversaw production of TPT's new local music show, The Lowertown Line. Prior to that role, I worked as Multimedia Producer for the station, creating digital-first content and experiences for our national and local productions, and developing strategies for greater online audience engagement.

Reported, produced, and narrated 65 creative short audio segments about Minnesota history, for AMPERS, the Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations. Aired on stations throughout the state.

Report, shoot, and edit daily video feature stories for large-market television station's website, cbs5.com (150,000 unique visitors daily). Collaborate with managing editor and news director to devise strategy for expanding web audience, and diversifying multimedia coverage.

Provided technical instruction and support for top reporters from newspapers and radio and TV stations around the country, including NPR, BBC, Time.com, and CBS Helped "fellows" tell stories utilizing Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Adobe Flash, map mash-ups, Twitter, Facebook, Photoshop, and Soundslides.

Reported and produced feature and hard news stories for NPR affiliate station in town of 9,000, with 50 percent listenership Generated ideas, conducted interviews, gathered sound, wrote scripts, edited audio, and voiced final stories Covered fishing industry, Tlingit culture, city government, arts, and the environment Live-hosted and engineered evening news segment.

Provided technical and administrative support for Emmy award-winning documentary broadcast and web TV production unit Wrote web copy to accompany stories, compiled relevant web links, reviewed story submissions, provided "base camp" support for producers in field Post-production duties included logging, digitizing, assistant editing in Final Cut Pro, photo research, and rights clearance.

January 2008Researched and co-reported radio stories in Guatemala and Nicaragua that aired on PRI's The World, World Vision, and MSNBC.comResearched story leads, arranged interviews, developed and managed reporting itinerary, provided Spanish-English translation, and served as photographer Reported and produced multimedia slideshow for PBS FRONTLINE/World about Mayan rock and roll in Guatemala.

Part of a two-person team in charge of Reach, the alumni magazine of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota (distribution 250,000) Assigned photographers, writers, and illustrators, managed production schedule, generated and guided issue "theme," wrote and edited articles, and led major redesign, which earned a University of Minnesota Communicators' Forum Gold Award for Best in Print.

Led communications and marketing efforts for non-profit rural advocacy organization affiliated with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP). Duties included fielding press inquiries, drafting PR materials, writing and editing online newsletter, coordinating book sales, and managing web content.

2004 Contributed ideas, stories, and editorial support for bimonthly "best of the alternative press" magazine, readership of 600,000. Processed incoming reprint requests, assisted with fact-checking, researched and pitched story ideas and possible reprints.