HEALTH COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST & ANTHROPOLOGIST------------SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCHER, HEALTH POLICY ANALYSTHaving worked with wide ranges of data, I understand how to link the granular to the macro-social, to the wider strategic picture. Besides researching mass media and journalistic culture, I’ve created social marketing campaigns, written health behavior proposals, studied social media footprints, and worked on survey methods and analysis, as well as researched epidemiological studies to inform my health policy writings. TEACHER, TEAM LEADER, PUBLIC SPEAKERIn front of microphones or in hallway confabs, facilitating seminars or addressing hundreds in a lecture hall or at a rally, I know how to inform and persuade an audience. My classroom teaching and organizational speaking experience, as well as radio deejay and voiceover artist background, give me command presence, yet my ethnographic research skills have made me an empathetic listener and team collaborator. WRITER, EDITORMy experience writing theoretical articles for peer-reviewed journals, yet also the half-minute briefs necessary for radio, puts me in good stead bridging specialized knowledges and the commonsensical understandings of the wider public. I’ve mastered the art of turning complex ideas into plain writing, yet also can wake up listless text with a well-crafted turn of a phrase. As an editor and teacher of writing, I have helped hundreds of people learn how to better communicate.CREATIVE THINKER, THEORIST, EARLY ADOPTER As an anthropologist and fieldworker specializing in participant observation research, I contribute worldly, creative and original thinking to every project with which I’m involved. People who claim to be out-of-the-box thinkers are a dime-a-dozen – even Taco Bell has retired its “Think Outside the Bun” campaign as passé. However, as long as we, as humans continue to build our “iron cages of reason”, the kind of anthropological thinking I bring will always be needed.