Andrea Cross Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

• Executive Team Member: Actively contributed to high-level organizational decisions and strategies.• Team Leadership: Established and managed a remote team of six, ensuring efficiency and collaboration.• Strategic Communications: Created and implemented a comprehensive communications plan, targeting a diverse range of stakeholders including over 100 Partners (industry, academia, civil society, media), donors, and policymakers to promote Responsible AI.• Content and Brand Oversight: Managed a creative team to develop and distribute PAI's public-facing content, which included a major design and branding initiative, newsletters, annual reports, social media, thought leadership, website, internal and external messaging and talking points, and media relations.• Event Production: Successfully organized and executed a three-day event in London for 200 exclusive invitees.

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Operational Leadership: Managed daily functions of a media startup driving dialogues with top-tier innovators and executives.• Staff Management: Oversaw administrative, editorial, and design staff, along with external content creators.• Project Oversight: Coordinated multiple projects, supervising every phase from concept through to owned media distribution.• Website Revamp: Spearheaded a comprehensive website redesign.• Event Production: Organized and executed over 30 webinars and live events, consistently drawing an audience of approximately 125 attendees each.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Responsible for originating, coordinating and producing all content for the Arc Fusion website and for related projects and events as well as overseeing the editorial content of the website, increasing the social media presence and providing general strategic input. Arc is a community of thought leaders in the fields of IT, health and biomedicine.

San Rafael, Ca, Us

Evaluated and curated educational media, reports and research in the education space for an audience of 25 million K-12 educators, parents, and thought leaders. Developed story ideas for features and multimedia stories. Built relationships with top education influencers, publishers, academics and those in the Edtech community.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Researched, developed and produced multimedia stories about biodiversity, conservation and sustainability for the online magazine bioGraphic. Worked with prominent science writers and international nature photographers. Planned and executed organizational management systems.

New York, New York, Us

Oversaw editorial content, story development, and reporting for multimedia website covering medical innovation and research for Johnson & Johnson.

doc.station film production, Hamburg, Germany Co-director of one-hour documentary for ARTE (broadcast in France and Germany) about psychologist Paul Ekman who was the inspiration for the scientist portrayed in the FOX drama LIE TO ME. Context TV, Berlin, Germany Developed proposals for a film on German “wonder weapons” which was pitched to American broadcasters and ultimately sold to National Geographic US. Advised on and polished scripts for several National Geographic and Discovery programs.Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion, Hamburg, Germany Researched and wrote shooting script for an hour-long docudrama about John Jacob Astor, a German emigrant to New York. Developed marketing materials and pitched American broadcasters a five hour series on German emigrants.

Co-Author with Christoph Drösser and Til Mette (cartoonist) of “Stimmt’s, Baby?” published in December 2012 by Rowolt Verlag in Germany. The book explores 100 common myths about conception, pregnancy, and the first year of life based on scientific studies.

New York, New York, Us

Co-Produced, directed and wrote a one hour documentary for MSNBC, “Journey to the Center of the Brain” profiling neurosurgeons and their patients at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. Researched and edited treatments for a four hour series on modern medicine and pitched the programs to international broadcasters from Europe, Japan and Australia.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Member of founding senior management team responsible for all editorial, creative and content development for the nationally broadcast magazine series hosted by Robert Krulwich and then Neil DeGrasse Tyson. • Spearheaded search for new talent and staff. Primary contact with scientific advisors. • Liaison with publicity, station relations, website, legal, and educational outreach departments. • Created and tracked $5.5 million budget; Developed and managed production schedule and determined staffing needs from research and field production through to delivery to PBS.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Created and tracked a $3 million budget. • Provided extensive editorial input on treatments, scripts, and edited versions of the film. • Arranged all production needs for crew and talent for ~70 shoot days in studios and locations worldwide• Developed and supervised production, editing, and post-production schedules. Oversaw music, animation, and visual effects delivery; managed research and acquisition of stock footage.• Coordinated efforts with publicity, educational outreach, publishing, and website departments.

Boston, Ma, Us

Associate Producer, “Cancer Warrior,” NOVA 1999 - 2001Member of two-person team on Emmy-nominated film that profiled Harvard cancer researcher Dr. Judah Folkman.Associate Producer, “Evolution,” WGBH Science Unit 2000Arranged extensive field production and identified talent for first episode of the eight-hour miniseries.Production Assistant, NOVA 1996 -1999Assisted acquisition and co-production producers on 19 NOVA programs from research through post-production. Maintained contact with international co-producers, evaluated film proposals and films, prepared publicity material, and arranged special events. Acted as Conference Coordinator of the 1998 World Congress of Science Producers.

Boston, Ma, Us

Assisted department responsible for generating and maintaining relationships with corporate sponsors of WGBH. Designed and managed underwriter, prospect, and funder credit databases and produced numerous financial reports. Scheduled all underwriting credits for radio broadcast.