President & Chief Executive Officer
CurrentReport to chair of the board and work closely with the seven committees of the board of directors of the preeminent news literacy organization in the U.S. delivering e-learning curriculum and virtual professional development to nearly 15,000 educators in all 50 states each year. Oversee 7-member leadership team. Hired as the organization’s first President & COO. Promoted to president and CEO after 42 months. - Designed and successfully executed a 4-year strategic growth plan reaching national scale and building a national network of 40,000 news literacy educators. - Supported the stewardship of $10M in gifts to partially fund the 4-year strategic growth plan.- Expanded staff by 220% and budget by 200% in 4 years.- Restructured the organization, designed and implemented complete overhaul of human resources policies, initiated comprehensive DEI work and led the establishment of a talent & diversity committee on the board and a staff-led committee on maintaining organizational culture.- Led process to amend organizational bylaws that restructured the board to better align with organizational growth; established a new board member recruitment process and transitioned 4 board members.- Redesigned programmatic impact metrics to focus on measuring skills, knowledge and mindsets. - Developed and launched a second 4-year strategic plan seeking to build a national movement in education; growing the staff and budget by 50% in the first year of the plan.- Secured $12M in funding for plan in its first year with the founder and board directors. - Oversaw six consecutive years of double-digit budget growth. - Directly manage a funding portfolio of $3.25M.- Implementing a comprehensive, coalition-driven, state-level policy advocacy strategy to improve student learning mandates and develop state standards around news literacy education.- Serve as the primary spokesperson for the organization, appearing on radio, television and in print.
