Led the development of a student-led advocacy campaign, working closely alongside campaign leadership to ensure efforts were in lockstep with the national campaign strategyMentored and managed a core student leadership team and more than 300 student volunteers, overseeing a campaign comprised of mass targeted emails, outreach to college and youth-led organizations, events, social media, influencers, and traditional media Approved by campaign leadership to act as a spokesperson in the media to advocate for the issues that young voters care about and how campaign policies would address them

Brought new brands and concepts in health and wellness to the national conversation, with clients including Apollo Neuroscience, a wearable for mental health, Matter Neuroscience, creating a biomarker for happiness, and MAPS, the non-profit championing psychedelic research and advancement, etc.

Led PR for global wellness innovator leveraging third-party voices including celebrities, influencers, and medical professionals to create integrated campaigns that inspired and resonated with a mainstream audience being introduced to cannabis as a wellness tool for the first timeEducated national mainstream media about the benefits of cannabis in a wellness context, landing positive brand features and helping to destigmatize weed in The New York Times, WSJ, Fast Company, Vogue, Forbes, Rolling Stone, LinkedIn’s Top Start-up List, the LA Times, and moreOversaw PR agency, including guidance to drive results, messaging, editorial calendar opportunities, and reporting, implementing changes constantly to improve work quality and navigate regulatory hurdles to ensure we were in compliance

Landed features in national mainstream media highlighting the ideas and innovations being driven by global community of changemakers

Led the firm’s Public Affairs practice, with clients including Exelon Corporation, the Fortune 100 nuclear energy company, Nuclear Matters, the advocacy coalition representing the nuclear energy industry, and the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), representing the nation’s public power industryLed all aspects of the firm alongside CEO and executive team, including profitability, staffing, planning, hiring, obtaining new business, implementing new protocols and policies, career development of associates, inspiring a collaborative work environment, and HRLed communications for Nuclear Matters, developing and executing fully integrated public affairs campaigns to advance policy at the local, state and national levels, combining research, earned and paid media, public opinion polling, grassroots engagement, outreach to elected officials, coordination and driving a consensus among member companies comprised of publicly-traded, Fortune 500 companies, written materials including press releases, crisis and response plans, statements, and op-eds, and media training and coordination with spokespeople

Worked on Capitol Hill as a Press Secretary for the Senate Budget Committee, for ranking member Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), acting as a spokesperson for a high-volume press office. Also worked for Congressman Bob Ney (R-OH), and Senator George Voinovich (R-OH)Worked across clients and practices at Hill & Knowlton in DC and Janine Gordon Associates in New York (acquired by the agency Peppercomm)