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Collaborate with communities, artistic teams, and wellness practitioners to produce/manage projects + write life-changing, message-rich content that impacts social change, and financially benefits artists + communities. Manage workflow, budgets + outcomes of multiple, simultaneous projects with their own teams - meeting and producing virtually + in-person. 100% success rate (within/under budget + on-time/early delivery), specializing in crisis project management.● Adeptly define projects' scopes, goals + deliverables.● Design multiple position descriptions per the unique needs of each project, recruit talent, review/evaluate applications, hire/onboard, oversee work, and close out engagement at the conclusion of each project.● For nonprofit clients, write appealing content for optimum stakeholder communications, including audiences and funders, connecting both to their programming.● 78 collaborations, 10 full-length scripts for stage + screen, 9 skits, 4 short plays, 4 books — including all necessary research and human resource oversight.● Ethel Woolson Lab Recipient and Bay Area Playwrights' Festival Semi- nalist for Wild & Free (2021).● Achieved New York Times award-winning writer status with Out of Hand Theatre - Best Theatre of 2020.● Increased overall engagement 83.4%, post link clicks 30.1%, and impressions 28.1% across 4 social media platforms for a national nonpro fit marcom client (2020).● Best Screenplay for Desire’s Kiss, Urban Mediamakers Film Festival (2013).● Secured $42K State of Georgia grant for a Metro Atlanta after-school program (2013).

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Aligned with the vision and seasonal themes of the company, and alongside the workflows of other teams — design, plan + produce 2 seasons of the Atlanta Regional Next Narrative (TM) Monologue Competition, including mass workshops for enrolled student competitors, semi-finals + finals events, while managing team workflow + deliverables, and strengthening core external partnerships with teachers and schools. Collaborated closely with both development and marketing to provide written and visual assets that best communicate the impact of this program.● Co-designed curriculum to train faculty, and expanded the process for recruiting, training + managing the faculty of teaching artists and college artist-assistants - virtually + in-person.● Elevated the documentation and packaging of the year’s programming + process data to be systematized, as well as available for use in performance management, future (strategic) planning/implementation, evaluation + grant reporting.● Began working with TCTC’s community director to design an engaging + effective alumni strategy to keep former students integrated in the life of the competition as well as the Company overall.● Helped to strengthen TCTC's culture of nurturing/cultivating + ensuring a safe, productive + educational environment for all participants.

Greater Atlanta Area

Introduce new, strategic external partnerships/collaborations by integrating meaningful + significant intersections of topics of faith, life, and theatrical themes to support community members’ inner growth aspirations while strategically growing Sunday morning worship attendance toward increased membership goals at a church where those metrics were consistently declining. Manage workflow + deliverables for several, simultaneously running productions, each with their own teams of contractors, and some artists + practitioners crossing teams.● 300 unique new attendees (some repeating) + 89 new community leaders, artists + guest speakers over just 9 months.● Increased attendance consistently by 50+% with new programming I designed + curated in just 9 months.● Designed and distributed effective organic marketing that harnessed the support of funders (financial + in-kind), and of external partners and participants.● Secured a $5K district grant to help support this immediately successful, innovative, new programming.● Researched + cultivated creative/design, talent, technical, practitioner, and administrative teams to implement programming designs.● Connected multiple sectors in the spirit of community and in their contexts to collaborate on new programming: education, grassroots, business, etc. organizations/groups.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Somatic Counseling

Clinical degree w/ a concentration in Dance/Movement Theories & Practice, 1 of only 7 dance therapy degrees approved by the American Dance.

D.Min., Christian Spirituality, 3.9

Activities and Societies: Travel Seminar, South AfricaD.Min. Thesis - Who Told You that You Were Naked? Creating Space for Black Women.

Education record

M.Div., Homiletics/Worship And Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)

Activities and Societies: International Society of Theta Phi President, Student Council

Diploma, College Preparatory

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society Drama Club French Club

B.S., Public Relations/Communication Studies

Activities and Societies: Black Student Union, BSU Black History Month Celebrations, Kappa Alpha Psi Sweetheart