The Chef Ann Foundation is 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to promoting whole-ingredient, scratch cooking in schools. Working in K-12 schools in all 50 states, CAF has helped 14,000 schools and 3.4 million kids eat healthier, fresher school meals.I strategically manage the day-to-day marketing operations to support growing and meaningfully engaging with the organization’s key audiences.

Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA) is a farmer-driven, membership-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that helps people in the Carolinas grow and eat local, organic foods by advocating for fair farm and food policies, building the systems family farms need to thrive, and educating communities about local, organic agriculture. I was responsible for making sure CFSA's storytelling and marketing campaigns represented the organization's mission, values, and goals. This role combined planning and reflection with content and engagement. I designed, implemented, and evaluated processes to refine CFSA's marketing efforts, including managing the editorial calendar, audience segmentation, and ensuring our website stayed up to date. Copy edits, online engagement, branding, and email marketing took up most of my days.

In this role, I was responsible for making all digital communications happen. Whether that was through maintaining and updating the website, writing and editing content, relationship building on social media, or compiling four monthly email newsletters. I also coordinated all contract work—IT, web development, graphic design, photography, and videography. I co-led CFSA's Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Access Committee.

A certified-organic, five-acre farm, situated on-campus at Wilson College. The non-profit farm grew vegetables, culinary herbs, and fruit for 70 CSA shares, the college's dining hall, and two small markets. We also kept a flock of 30 laying hens.My responsibilities included training and staffing of students, interns, and apprentices; coordinating events and volunteers along with the Fulton Center for Sustainable Studies program; all components of field management--crop planning, greenhouse care, soil health, crop cultivation, recordkeeping; market distribution; CSA newsletter; tractor work, vehicle and engine maintenance and repair; budget tracking and cash management; inventory tracking--you name it, if it happens on a farm, then I did it.

At the time, Potomac Vegetable Farms consisted of two uncertified-organic farms that grew vegetables, herbs, cut flowers, and some fruit for 660 CSA shares, seven farmers markets, and two roadside stands. The Loudoun County branch, where I spent most of my time, is 45 miles outside of Washington DC and is a 180-acre farm, that had 20 acres in cultivation.What began as a farmhand role that oversaw a CSA pickup evolved into field and greenhouse management, training new farmhands, taking full ownership of a busy Saturday farmers market in Washington DC, and helping make decisions on daily, weekly, and seasonal priorities along with the farm managers and owners.

At the time, Gravity Hill Farm was a six-acre, certified-organic market farm. We grew vegetables, berries, and cut flowers. We raised chickens, kept goat, llamas, and alpacas. The farm was dedicated to creating on-farm educational opportunities for community members, school children, and incoming college students from Princeton University.

Slow Food USA is part of a global, grassroots organization with supporters in over 150 countries who believe that food and farming should be sources of health and well being for everyone. Slow Food USA has a community of more than 250,000 supporters and 225 chapters.In this internship, my main responsibilities included external communication; network correspondence; content brainstorming & development; daily media monitoring & clipping; as well as administration and executive support staffing.

LexBlog provided a professional, turnkey blog solution to legal professionals worldwide. At the time, the LexBlog network was the largest in the world, with more than 3,000 blog authors. My responsibilities ranged widely: team management and staffing; project management; content development; overseeing client education; editorial and network engagement; IT support, as well as some administrative tasks.

Supported clients on the functionality of our blogging platform. Duties ranged widely from hosting trainings on how to use the platform and what makes a good blog post to providing editorial feedback on client content and troubleshooting technical issues.