Cecilia Snyder Email & Phone Number

Richland, Washington, United States

The LLW Forum is a nonprofit membership organization of Governor Appointees, agency representatives, and commercial brokers who work to support responsible approaches to radioactive waste disposal. ♦ Manage membership interactions and internal communications for a national organization of U.S. State Governor appointees; federal agencies including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the National Nuclear Security Administration, and the U.S. Department of Defense; and nonprofits such as the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, the Health Physics Society, and the Organization of Agreement States. ♦ Coordinate internal communications through password-protected websites with shared workspaces, calendars, and messaging systems. ♦ Provide ongoing logistical support for high-level meetings and policy events. ♦ Design, edit, format, and produce external collateral for public dissemination.

CELTA-certified. Teach English as a Second Language to children, adolescents, and adults

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Clients Included: The Aspen Institute, Communications Consortium Media Center, CORE Group, Faiths for Safe Water, Faith for International Assistance, GlobalYoga, the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) Iris Group, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, NGO Networks for Health, Training Resources Group, Inc., White Ribbon Alliance, and The World Bank Group. ♦ Created logos and built websites, manage websites and social media outreach to help shape policy change on global health issues. ♦ Designed templates, academic posters, brochures, briefing papers, newsletters, flyers, and online petitions to raise awareness of organizations' work and goals. ♦ Trained and built capacity in advocacy and communications tactics for nonprofits in the U.S. and overseas, resulting in raised awareness and significant policy change. ♦ Ghostwrote and placed articles, press releases, Op-eds, and background pieces in print and online media.

Washington, Dc

WASH Advocates was a nonprofit initiative dedicated to helping solve global water challenges. ♦ Developed an optimized website, organizational brand, and social media presence, resulting in audience increase of more than 300% in one year. ♦ Managed communications regarding water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) issues to a core community of more than 8,000 members. ♦ Served as a core team member which helped promote passage of a major bipartisan bill in 2014, the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2014 ♦ Produced talking points, message memos, and fact sheets on global WASH challenges and their solutions for Congressional briefings and international policy meetings. ♦ Created logos, original graphics, and web content for posters, infographics, PowerPoint presentations, letterheads, and social media outlets. ♦ Planned and executed high-level meetings, briefings, and events for policymakers.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

The Loch Harbour Group provides information technology, program/project management, strategic planning, logistics, engineering, training, and security services to the government and private sectors. ♦ Managed internal communications and remote collaboration for large project teams within the Department of Homeland Security, including The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

Washington D.C. Metro Area

The Communications Consortium Media Center (CCMC) was a nonprofit public interest media center dedicated to helping nonprofit organizations use media and new technologies for public education and policy change. ♦ Managed the network and membership interactions for a password-protected online community using an innovative Drupal-based platform combined with a proprietary media database of more than 600,000 contacts. ♦ Helped develop new content and training materials, and managing online training and technical support for users. Managed social media and outreach strategies for diverse projects; performed on-call graphic designs for print and web-based materials.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

GlobalGiving is a nonprofit fundraising website that connects hundreds of social entrepreneurs and local organizations to donors. Founded by two former World Bank executives, GlobalGiving provides a high-impact way for individuals and organizations to direct their philanthropy. ♦ Increased organizational efficiency by revamping web-based portals and consolidating databases, improving the project leader communities’ online performance from 30% to 95% in six months.

Our Voices Together was a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization created by those who lost loved ones during the terrorist attacks of September 11. It aimed to promote international volunteering, global philanthropy, student exchange, and interfaith/intercultural dialogues. In 2008, OVT merged with Americans for Informed Democracy and GlobalGiving. ♦ Increased awareness within the general U.S. public of compassionate responses to terrorism through online outreach and the news media. ♦ Upgraded the organization’s contact database by 300% and increased website traffic by 150%. ♦ Organized nationwide events on college campuses and other venues to increase awareness of the campaign.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

The Communications Consortium Media Center (CCMC) is a nonprofit public interest media center dedicated to helping nonprofit organizations use media and new technologies for public education and policy change.♦ Served as Executive editor of www.PLANetWIRE.org, www.SavingWomensLives.org, www.PUSHJournal.org; created and maintained up to 17 issue-specific micro sites simultaneously. ♦ Created original logos, designs, and templates for numerous campaigns and projects.♦ Trained health officials in Africa, India and the U.S. in strategic communications and web-based best practices.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

The Population Council conducts research to address critical health and development issues. They conduct research and programs in more than 50 countries. ♦ Created and maintained a database for print and electronic dissemination of HIV/AIDS-related issues♦ Designed and produced all organizational printed material, including logos, templates, and scientific posters. ♦ Created remote comprehensive communications support for field offices in Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, and Thailand

Washington D.C. Metro Area

The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) is an internationally recognized non-profit organization that improves the lives of women and girls in developing countries.♦ Redesigned, upgraded, and maintained the organization’s website; wrote, edited, and designed the organization’s publications, brochures, conference summary reports, quarterly newsletters and project briefs.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Toby Levine Communications was a part of the Annenberg/CPB Project, whose mission for more than three decades was funding and distributing multimedia resources for teachers (K-12 and college levels) to teach their subjects and to stay up-to-date in their fields. ♦ Researched and wrote on national Math and Science education reform efforts for a web-based, interactive database.

The World Federalist Institute (WFI) aims to advance education about a federal government for the world and steps towards it. ♦ Designed and maintained organization’s first website; edited and formatted the quarterly newsletter; co-managed the national activist program and coordinated student programs.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

The Panos Institute works to make the complex issues facing developing countries accessible and understandable, to provide information that people can trust, and to open up opportunities for different perspectives to be heard. ♦ Fought actively to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS issues among editors in Central and South America to de-stigmatize the issue and allow publication in their newspapers and broadcast media. ♦ Assisted journalists by writing press releases and background papers, and providing up-to-date facts on the issue.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Bread for the World Institute provides nonpartisan policy analysis on hunger and strategies to end it. The Institute has been educating opinion leaders, policymakers, and the public about hunger in the United States and abroad since 1975.♦ Researched, contributed to, and edited to the annual State of the World Hunger Report, briefing papers and policy papers.♦ Used the library's first computer and Internet system and collaborated with other libraries to educate ourselves and others on global development issues.

Mals, Philosophy, Ethics

Activities and Societies: Choir at Holy TrinityFocus on image ethics in non-profit advocacy work

Bs, Sociology, Psychology

Activities and Societies: A chick singer in numerous bands. Oh, did you mean academically?