• Manage executive and employee communications, working with leaders and their chiefs of staff to improve transparency and connectedness across the teams.• Implemented new communications tools, including Copilot across all apps, Viva Amplify, Teams meeting features, SharePoint tools and more, to improve consistency across messaging, audience engagement and metrics tracking.• Program manage the diversity and inclusion team, collaborating across different organizations and ERGs to bring learning and growth opportunities for employees• Own a quarterly series of virtual live learning days, featuring a 3-part agenda of internal and external speakers on various personal and professional topics in a response to survey results showing desire in learning opportunities. This includes identifying speakers, prepping their presentations, organizing the event communications, and managing the feedback survey and recap materials.• Standardized executive’s communications rhythm of business, ensuring regular touchpoints with employees, improved and updated the SharePoint site and Teams channel to improve audience engagement.

Plan and produce strategic communications both internally for employees and leaders, as well as externally for press and industry influencers. This work includes creating communications plans, writing news releases, blog posts, social media content, internal announcements and reactive media statements, as well as producing multimedia packages for internal audiences. Represent the Premera brand to media as company spokesperson for corporate social giving, annual premium rate announcements, new product launches and most recently Premera’s response to COVID-19 and the largest layoffs in the company’s history. Work collaboratively across Strategy, Human Resources and Marketing departments to ensure alignment in messaging across the company on communications objectives and company priorities, while keeping a pulse on industry media coverage and trends to ensure relevance and timeliness. Collaborate with stakeholders and subject matter experts in Premera’s technology, health care, innovation and data analytics departments to identify content and develop proactive media pitches as well as respond to reactive media requests when appropriate. Established and manage the company’s online internal newsroom for executives across the company to find talking points and FAQs on important issues ahead of conferences and press engagements. Guide executives of all levels across the company in media training and preparation for speaking events, for both internal and external audiences.

Manage account team press and communications for the Microsoft Azure cloud and developer tools businesses, working collaboratively with agency coworkers as well as client communications counterparts and executives.Maintain agency journalist relationships, managing Microsoft’s share of voice in industry news and tracking technology coverage daily.Running Microsoft tech product and partnership news moments, planning strategy, executing outreach plans and tracking for coverage to measure against goals.Organize and host press interviews with Microsoft spokespeople, creating briefing preparation materials, preparing the spokesperson, hosting the journalist and tracking the conversation for any flags.Research and analyze data through tools like PowerBI and Union Metrics on Microsoft news coverage, in order to use the data to make better recommendations on communications strategies.Participate in the intern mentorship program, mentoring interns and developing management skills.

Wrote press releases for local and regional news outlets, online and print.Created online content for the school's website relaunch.Wrote feature stories, took photographs and edited the quarterly magazine for the school's students, parents, alumni, faculty and staff.Managed the school website's public and private portals.Advised the high school newspaper club.Managed the school's social media presence, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Wordpress blogs, Pinterest.

Successfully managed the production of the quarterly print magazine, a global creative publication, for the GOOD 100 spring issue - proofing and copy-editing pages and content, creating original content, editing photographs and fact-checking stories.Worked independently on projects and assignments, directly for the managing editor, editorial director, head designer and creative director.Managed communications with 100 people featured in the issue, obtaining any necessary assets, photos, interviews.

Wrote, researched, edited and fact-checked stories on cultural events for three print issues of the monthly print magazine and website for professional women in Chicago.Created photograph pages and compiled information for city events, such as event listings and professional networking news.

Assembled daily news clips on coverage of Northwestern University which were sent to the faculty and administration of the university.Collected and analyzed data for a research project commissioned by the president of the university, surveying news coverage on top American universities.Utilized the news database LexisNexis(R) and the media relations contact manager PressFileregularly posted press releases to local news sites.Transcribed audio interviews for stories to be posted on the Northwestern University Newscenter website.