Erika Walter Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

United States

Washington D.C. Metro Area

•Serving as the voice and spokesperson for the Partnership •Communicating the Partnership's mission of making government more effective.•Responding to media inquiries, crafting press releases, pitching the Partnership’s priorities, initiatives and research results, and facilitating the narrative of improving the federal government for the betterment of the American people.

• Authoring press releases, quotes, talking points, media advisories, & opinion editorials for a Top 15 City audience, writing newsletters for 24,000 readers, organizing monthly press conferences, tele town halls, & weekly media hits; as Scalise’s voice to LA-01,meeting & networking with dozens of local media to coordinate forthcoming media opportunities.• Operating Scalise’s digital brand by creating graphic and written content for & implementing the social media strategy 12,000 followers, his Facebook “likes” by approx. 22,000, & established his Instagram as one of the top accounts on Capitol Hill

Washington, D.C.

• Communicated the policy vision of 175 Members of Congress to 500+ national & local media outlets through press releases, quotes, opinion editorials, press conferences & digital media• Crafted internal messaging with daily updates, newsletters & talking points to 200+ communicators on Capitol Hill• Managed seven social media profiles, two websites, & two newsletters, growing the digital audience approx. 30 percent.

Washington, D.C.

• Produced national news for the 1.8 million daily viewers, included writing & producing stories, logging political events, writing scripts, cutting elements, confirming breaking news, field producing, booking interviews, coordinating travel pool material, etc. Worked all shifts including weekends, night & overnights at the “information hub” in our nation’s capital• Authored nationally published articles for the FOX News website; provided a national angle to a hyperlocal story

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Worked alongside national correspondents generating financial & political news stories, coordinating interviews, field producing, & analyzing relevant political information for a national audience.• Produced live shots for the network’s more than 70,000 viewers per day and wrote pieces for FBN’s dot com site.• Strengthened political & financial media messaging through fast-pace news gathering & production, contributing to as many as 20 on-air & online stories per week• Conducted extensive financial research and explained the important data for the nearly 65,000 viewers each day

• Produced content for three social media outlets for the college of business that grew its digital footprint two-fold• Researched, wrote, & edited up to 30 press releases a week that disclosed important updates & news to the community

• Created dozens of internal company communications, including newsletters, memorandums, & yearly sustainability report seen by nearly 7,000 employees; creating external communications, such as press releases & executive biographies.• Produced a database of corporate social responsibility contacts including hundreds of media outlets & bloggers.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Established as a reporter for the CBS affiliate & responsible for daily story ideas, writing on-air scripts, editing video, shooting footage, & writing web stories five days a week for thirteen months in a vary of work environments.• Developed strong, adaptive communication skills to message to broad audiences in a focused & timely manner for the number one local television station in Baton Rouge since 1994.

Assisted six presidents in the M&C Division of the Fortune 500 Company expensing accounts & creating documents

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance

Activities and Societies: MBAA, NAWMBA

Bachelor Of Arts: Mass Communications, Journalism