Currently: Provide policy communications support to FirstNet business unit teams, leading communications strategy and execution around policy topics critical to the FirstNet business and public safety. Also provide policy communications support to External and Legislative Affairs teams on wireless policy, including spectrum. Duties for these include:Drafting communications plans for anticipated policy moments, including messaging, statements, talking points and media relations strategy;Drafting reactive statements for quickturn media inquiries;Building relationships with key tech and telecom policy reporters;Coordinating with Public Affairs teams to provide communications and messaging to prepare External and Legislative Affairs teams for policymaker meetings.Previously: Acted as liaison between corporate communications and regional public affairs teams across the Midwest and East regions. This includes:Ensuring corporate messaging continuity in regional press materials by reviewing and editing press releases, blogs, social media posts and more;Project management, including overseeing the materials review and approvals process with communications and legal teams, managing deadlines, and coordinating media pitching activity;Facilitating conversations between corporate communications and public affairs teams to align on goals and messaging;Collaborating with Public Affairs Operations team on managing @ATTPublicPolicy Twitter account, including drafting/planning/creating content and creating social graphics on Canva.

Develop and execute communications and public affairs strategies and tactical plans for clients in a variety of industries, including technology, health care, energy and consumer products.Craft messaging to communicate client perspectives on a variety of complex policy and regulatory topics, including technology topics such as data privacy and 5G.Draft owned and earned media content for clients, including blog posts, press releases, statements, op-eds and other external communications materials.Manage account teams by leading client calls, tracking project workstreams and overseeing deadlines.Pitch news on behalf of clients to reporters at national, consumer, business and technology publications.Serve as day-to-day media contact for a technology client.Lead media monitoring teams and assist with rapid response protocols.Conduct media and landscape analyses around key policy issues for clients.Create and implement organic social media campaigns tailored to client goals, including thought leadership for senior executives and public policy teams.

Formerly known as The Glover Park Group/Finsbury Glover Hering

Formerly known as The Glover Park Group/Finsbury Glover Hering

-Draft and schedule daily social media posts for Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. Monitor social media for relevant news from colleagues, partners and influencers.-Monitor and gather news clips for internal circulation each morning. Maintain EIG media hit trackers.-Track social media analytics and performance each month for Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Medium and YouTube.-Assisted in creating and implementing a communications plan for an upcoming report release, including drafting social media content, writing newsletters in MailChimp, creating social media graphics and copyediting materials. -Handled social media for our report release, including scheduling paid social campaigns, posting a tweetstorm, and monitoring news coverage and online conversation of our report.

Traditional communications and public relations duties, including:-Drafting and editing press releases and media advisories;-Drafting, posting, and scheduling social media for the firm and for our clients using Buffer and Hootsuite;-Drafting and editing one-pagers, marketing emails, newsletters, and other marketing collateral;-Compiling and summarizing news clips for clients;-Creating media lists;-Website upkeep, primarily in Squarespace;-Drafting and editing blog posts for the website;-Participating in all staff meetings and business development brainstorming sessions as well as client phone calls and meetings.Because DCC is so small, I have felt like a full-time associate during my time here; I have face-to-face contact with the CEO, Dale Curtis, everyday, and also with our clients as DCC gives me the opportunity to sit in on important meetings and phone calls. I have also been able to observe generally how a small business is run, particularly when it comes to business development and prospecting clients.Clients included trade associations, nonprofits, and charter schools. Frequently worked with the government relations teams at each organization.

Working the circulation desk at Lauinger Library: checking in and out books, assisting patrons with books and research; Consortium Loan Services (CLS) and Interlibrary Loan (ILL) software: processing books to and from other colleges, local and nationwide; Student Assistant II supervisory duties include collecting and managing fines, problem solving for patrons and Student Assistants I before passing along to senior staff, training Student Assistants I and assisting Lauinger supervisors.

Conducted phone and in-person interviews; pulled sound bites and edited audio with Adobe Audition; wrote stories to be read on-air and to be posted on the web; attended city council meetings and news conferences; produced 1-minute wraps; assisted in the newsroom with research and fact checking; contacted and developed sources; ran small newsroom errands.

Performed basic cashier duties, including greeting customers, assisting them on the sales floor, fielding phone calls, and problem solving for customers and coworkers. Worked with all teams, including sales, pricing, and shipment, assisting with all tasks in the store.

Assistant to the instructors of the Science Center's summer camps - camps from ages 4 to 12, typically between 15 and 25 kids during each week. Duties included lesson planning, classroom instruction, constant interaction and entertaining the children, supervising them in the museum, frequently talking with and fielding questions from parents and museum patrons, and generally problem solving in a lively summer camp environment.