Dan Beeton Email & Phone Number

• Create and manage editorial calendar, including identifying key topics for the news cycle.• Lead and conduct deadline-driven media communications, including drafting and distributing press releases and pitches, social media engagement, press event organizing, and flacking.• Effectively target communications to leading outlets in print, broadcast and online media in the Americas, Europe and other key international markets.• Edit and conduct original research for op-eds, articles, research papers and blog posts.• Draft and edit op-eds, articles and reports and conduct media interviews.• Co-founded and contribute to two CEPR-hosted blogs, on Haiti and Latin America, respectively.• Organize and participate in speaking events.• Assist with writing and editing grant proposals and reports for foundations, and monthly updates to individual donors.• Manage regular communication with thousands of international and U.S. media contacts.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Worked in collaboration with organizations and individuals to identify and address research gaps where CEPR’s work could play an important role.• Developed working relationships with labor unions, NGOs, governments, international financial institutions, research organizations, academics and activists.• Reviewed and edited op-eds, articles, research papers and blog posts, including fact checking and copy editing.• Conducted original and secondary research to contribute to publication.• Greatly expanded CEPR’s outreach to foreign governments and academics.• Presented work by CEPR experts at international and U.S. conferences and other public speaking opportunities.• Managed regular contact with thousands of supporters via Salsa/Democracy in Action.

Hyattsville, Md

• Organized “Haiti Solidarity Week 2005,” featuring educational and awareness-raising events in dozens of cities one year after a coup d’état.• Researched and wrote materials relating to the coup and current human rights abuses for web publication.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Worked in coalition with dozens of organizations to organize public events in opposition to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Summit in Miami, FL in November 2003 resulting in extensive local and national media coverage.• Drafted and distributed press releases featuring prominent labor union presidents, environmental organization directors, family farmers, ranchers and others.• Conducted media and popular education efforts against the FTAA, CAFTA, NAFTA and WTO.• Advised state-level affiliated fair trade coalitions on messaging, communications and organizing.

Specialized Certificate, Copyediting

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Cultural Anthropology