Dorothee Benz Phd Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Montgomery, AL, US

• Researched and wrote feature articles for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s flagship magazine, Learning for Justice, as well as educational resources for LFJ’s website
• Spoke on webinar panels built around feature articles authored by me

NEW YORK, New York, US

• Provided regular media analysis on a broad range of topics for FAIR’s blog
• Repeat guest on FAIR’s weekly radio program, CounterSpin

New York, New York, US

• Managed three departmental verticals that execute all of the organization’s media, marketing, and digital channels
• Guided the organization’s messaging on all litigation and policy work
• Rebuilt structures of inter-departmental collaboration with the Development Department, started the organization’s first marketing team, and built a best-in-class email communications program
• Oversaw major cross-channel campaigns
• Supervised three directors and a total staff of 13, plus outside consultants
• Served on senior management team

• In 2014 I was elected by the New York Annual Conference to serve as a delegate to the international General Conference of the United Methodist Church, the UMC’s only rule-making governing body. I stepped down as the.
• Wrote, spoke, and preached about the necessity of strategies of non-violent resistance to the UMC’s discriminatory rules
• Organized and facilitated workshops and retreats
• Coordinated with other national movement leaders
• Helped mobilize hundreds of activists to protest at the 2016 General Conference
• Planned direct action protests during the General Conference

• Helped start and served as first chair of regional grassroots organization of United Methodists working to end the UMC’s institutional discrimination against LGBTQI people
• Led steering committee and process of developing goals, strategy, and programming
• Served as lead organizer for many of MIND’s campaigns and events, such as the We do! Methodists Living Marriage Equality network pledged to offer weddings to LGBTQI people in defiance of the denomination’s ban and the.
• Built membership base of 600 people and email list of 1,200
• Built and maintained communications infrastructure, including website, weekly newsletter, Facebook and Twitter presences
• Led delegations to meet with church officials

New York, NY, US

• Built and managed comprehensive, multi-channel communications program, including media relations, thought leadership, social media, email strategy, video and photography production, and website
• Led award-winning website redesign
• Created the CCR blog and weekly newsletter
• Quintupled CCR’s op-ed and blog output
• Significantly increased media coverage, email communications, and social media reach
• Supervised staff of four, plus outside consultants

New York, New York, US

• Worked closely with department director to oversee communications to 200,000-member local and manage the department’s 18-person staff
• Oversaw print production of approximately 500 separate jobs a year, ranging from book-length manuals to simple flyers and newsletters, posters, programs, brochures
• Wrote president’s column for biweekly newspaper and president’s emails to members
• Co-project manager of award-winning website redesign
• Joint oversight of the online communications program, including the website and approximately 500 annual email alerts, publications, and news items
• Served on senior management team

• Coordinated print and online communications for union representing City University of New York faculty and staff
• Initiated, wrote, and published award-winning weekly email newsletter
• Drafted communications strategy for campaigns and wrote and produced nationally recognized literature for contract campaign as well as budget and legislative campaigns
• Created and built press lists from scratch, wrote press releases, and handled all aspects of media relations, generating significant increase and improvement in media coverage

• Oversaw all media relations, publications, and public education efforts for nationally acclaimed public-interest law firm and think tank
• Developed communications strategy, messaging, and campaigns with directors, attorneys, and other center staff for dozens of individual projects
• Initiated and developed branding and identity program
• Coached individual staff to prepare them for interviews with major national news outlets
• Supervised staff of two people, plus outside consultants
• Served on senior management team

• Directed multi-faceted communications program for New York City public-sector union
• Redesigned and edited award-winning bi-monthly newspaper
• Redesigned, wrote, and maintained award-winning website
• Developed internal union campaigns and wrote and produced material for them
• Directed external communications and public relations

New York, NY, US

• Taught Introduction to American Government
• Wrote syllabus and designed course, combining classroom lecturers, small-group assignments, and full-class discussions

• Coordinated all internal and external communications on campaign to organize Columbia Sunrise Hospital, the biggest hospital in the biggest for-profit healthcare chain in America
• Developed press contacts, built and maintained press lists, wrote releases, and placed stories nationally and locally
• Recruited and trained several dozen workers as media spokespeople
• Wrote and produced literature for field communications and community campaign

• Designed and coordinated communications for largest affiliate of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees
• Designed, wrote, and edited quarterly trilingual newsletter
• Wrote speeches, press releases, political correspondence, and research reports
• Wrote and produced monthly community radio program
• Coordinated special projects and served as liaison to local coalitions and political campaigns

Master Of Divinity - Mdiv, Social Ethics

Phd, Political Science

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