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Sacramento, California

Lead CHA’s 10-person Communications Team in support of work to foster an environment in which hospitals and health systems can better meet their mission of care. Work closely with CHA’s advocacy, policy, and data teams to create and disseminate information and ideas to legislative leaders, regulatory bodies, the public, media, and CHA members. Oversee contractors and consultants in support of media buying activities, video production, ballot initiatives, and other activities. As a member of CHA's Leadership Team, develop organizational budgets, workplace policies and procedures, and more.

Elkridge, Md

Elkridge, Md

Developed and oversaw strategic advocacy communications for 64-member hospital and health system association. Created strategic media plans, marketing campaigns, press releases, talking points, FAQs, public presentations, white papers, comment letters, and op-eds. Served as primary speechwriter and message-generator for president and CEO of organization. Led, along with legislative and community leaders, multiple digital and traditional media public awareness campaigns to support legislative and regulatory goals. Responsible for crafting department’s annual budget. Served as media spokesman for the organization.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Led an editorial staff of 20 editors, reporters, photographers, designers and copy editors for a legal and business newspaper and website. Worked to develop budget and strategic goals for coming fiscal year. Created web-first mentality for newsroom, resulting in 23 percent increase in web-published stories in a single quarter. Revised internal workflow to cross-train copy editors and designers in complementary skills, resulting in the ability to restructure staff and add more front-line reporters. Engaged in public speaking events for The Daily Record.

Wrote case statements, proposals for principal gift solicitations, marketing materials (white papers, faculty profiles, brochures) – used to build cases for substantial and transformational philanthropic gifts and as resources for fundraisers in identifying gift opportunities for prospective donors. Contributed to development of strategic communications plan. Identified and articulated programs characterized by leading-edge science and technology, requiring philanthropic investments ranging from $10 million to more than $100 million.

Gaithersburg, Md

Managed newsroom of roughly 30 editorial staff members, including mid-level editors, reporters, photographers, designers and news clerks. Implemented several initiatives, including the newspaper’s first weekend and night schedules, tracking of reporter productivity and accuracy, requirement of regular enterprise work, and weekly post-mortem sessions to discuss ways to improve quality. Wrote editorials on local and state politics. Worked with senior management to develop budget for training, contests and reporter compensation. Developed, along with web team, several online endeavors, including creation of web-first arts and entertainment reporter position. Served as primary newsroom contact for readers wishing to discuss coverage.

Rockville, Md

Wrote press releases; wrote feature stories for annual report on topics such as military amputee research, enteric disease vaccines and biodefense; wrote articles for internal newsletter; maintained content on internal and external Web sites using HTML tags within a content management system; trained in video production; created presentations for CEO.

Frederick, Md

Taught “Advanced Reporting” course to students majoring in communication arts. Elements of the course included police and court reporting, government coverage, investigative reporting, source-building, deadline writing and ethics.

Frederick, Md

Edited news and feature stories for a 40,000-circulation daily newspaper; managed reporters for enterprise projects and daily stories; coordinated photo/graphic assignments to match stories; launched “Ask the Editor” column; coached reporters in writing and reporting techniques; directed content for Lifestyle, a section aimed at the 18-30 demographic; supervised long-term projects across multiple platforms including print, television and Internet; maintained content on public Web site via content management system.

Washington, D.C.

Taught “Editorial Policies and Methods” course in the university’s School of Communications, including ethics, style, grammar, story planning, editing, and layout using Adobe InDesign.

Westminster, Md

Edited news and feature stories for a 25,000-circulation daily newspaper; helped manage a team of 10 reporters for enterprise projects and daily stories; coordinated photo/graphic assignments to match stories; directed content for Synergy, the newspaper's youth section written by high school students; wrote editorials; assigned and edited freelance columns.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Journalism

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English Literature