Samara Collective is a democratically run, worker-owned strategic communications agency founded in 2018. We have a demonstrated passion for equity-based work with our clients ranging from local level campaigns to state-wide unions to national non-profits. Samara Collective leverages community insights, narrative strategy, design, and integrated tactics across paid, earned, shared, and owned media. • Provide communications strategy consultation and lead project management to ensure projects are on task and on budget for non-profit and progressive grassroots clients.• Direct internal marketing including cohesive voice development and multi-channel inward-bound content including newsletter and blog launch. Drove over 400% increase in LinkedIn followers in 2024.• Provide business development leadership including nurturing leads, producing proposals and closing new and renewed contracts with prospective and continuing clients.• Conduct qualitative research on behalf of clients to develop messaging and communications plans withmeasurable objectives. Track digital engagement trends and opportunities.• Create content, creative, and copy for client campaigns, including shared, social, and earned media and press to drive engagement. Select clients include The Grassroots Fund, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Honor the Earth, Mass Budget, Participatory Budget Project, Employee Ownership Equals, and the Ohio Education Association.• Lead “Office Hours” coordinating support for over 60 climate justice and resilience orgs in New England and the Midwest (Barr Foundation and Midwest Environmental Justice Network)

• Founder of OysterHinge (OH!), a creative consulting and coaching project. • Career advancement coaching with individual artists and arts leaders including but not limited to marketing and visibility strategy, personal/artist website development and project statement design and editing. • Collaborative strategic communications for progressive, values-aligned organizations. Clients include City of Somerville, Texas CASA, YWCA of Pierce County, Kitsap School of the Arts, Wayzgoose Kitsap.• Lead interactive creative and fine arts workshops.

• Lead strategic communications efforts for an innovative, nondenominational cross-disciplinary program to promote a robust understanding of the rich, complex role that religion plays in all facets of human existence.• Manage events from ideation to post-mortem including promotion, staffing and documentation. • Maintain vibrant, dynamic website and social media presence through regular updates and new content.• Direct storytelling strategy in close collaboration with staff, faculty and students. • Lead storytelling strategy including developing leads, conduct interviews, and write copy• Create digital assets including graphic design, photography and videography.

• Guided by the Center for Community Engagement’s mission and priorities, develop and execute strategic plans for communications, events, and marketing to multiple stakeholders. • National Staff Lead of the Place-Based Justice Network, a learning community of 25+ universities, plan and host virtual and in-person events, manage CRM and monthly newsletters, and oversee institutional membership recruitment and retention, provide professional volunteer management. • Serve as lead writer, designer, and art director for all print and online publications, including newsletters, annual reports, videos, and promotional materials. Provide in-house photography, videography, and editing.• Maintain cohesive branding, style, and voice across all platforms, channels, and multi-tiered audiences. • Serve on the Center's Steering Committee and co-lead the Racial Equity Working Group to provide insight, input, and strategic direction across programs. • Monitor ongoing evaluation of metrics and analytics to ensure the efficacy of communications including Google web analytics and social media insights.•Coordinate and provide oversight for the Center’s social media presence (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn); Stay up to date on social trends.•Oversee the Center’s website, ensuring accuracy, freshness and relevancy of content; develop strategic plan for website content and human-centered user experience (UX) design to maximize the Center’s online presence.•Allocate and manage communications budget; manage contracts with graphic design, videographers, photographers and web vendors.

Serve as a leader for BeVocal, a university-wide initiative to promote the idea that individual Longhorns have the power to prevent high-risk behavior and harm. BeVocal builds on the existing expertise of campus centers and departments at UT Austin and unifies these with consistent messaging and content. • Facilitate communication with our 70+ partners at The University of Texas at Austin, including monthly open all-member meetings. • Research existing best practices, theory, evidence-based programs and literature.• Organize collaborative program development across centers and departments.• Facilitate university-wide buy-in with students, administrators, faculty and staff. • Serve as on both Evaluation and Content committees to both assess impact and improve our core and supplementary curriculum. • Provide training on core content and issue-specific content on interpersonal violence prevention and response using the BeVocal framework.• Share the model at national conferences, including the National Women's Studies Association Conference (San Juan, PR, Nov. 2014) and the Society for Public Health Educators (pending April 2015).• Serve as a primary consultant for the state-wide University of Texas System bystander intervention initiative, which received 1.4 million dollars in funding for program implementation in all system schools for three years by the Board of Regents in August, 2014.

Develop and implement prevention strategies of interpersonal violence in collaboration with the UT community.

• Short term counseling, crisis intervention and case management services to victims/survivors of violent crime including rape, sexual assault and domestic violence.• Conduct intake and assessment for individuals seeking assistance.• Perform safety assessment and risk management.• Provide advocacy to victims/survivors of crime on obtaining orders of protection, Crime Victims Board Compensation, and emergency housing transfers for NYCHA residents.• Advocate for clients for public entitlements with systems and other agencies • Provide information and referrals for services such as medical/hospital-related, shelters, long-term counseling, public assistance and other entitlements.• Provide emergency practical assistance including transportation, food vouchers, financial assistance, emergency cell phones, and lock replacement.• Maintain thorough and accurate case records and statistics.• Participate fully in sexual violence primary prevention/community mobilization activities, such as Project Envision Williamsburg• Conduct educational presentations and trainings and participate in outreach events for community groups about sexual assault, domestic violence and other related topics.

Develop Activist Resource Center (ARC), an online library of organizing materials for student activists, co-supervised a large website over-haul project, coordinate outreach including in-person student trainings. Evaluate and update training curricula and materials. Recruit, interview, and supervise volunteer trainers and interns.

• Administer campaign increase submissions to the policies database in the joint project of V-Day and SAFER. • Develop national outreach and press plan. • Develop multi-media teaching tools for the Activist Resource Center, an online library of organizing materials. • Supervise a team of interns and volunteers. • Respond to student inquiries. • Develop training curricula. • Organize and conduct trainings nationwide. • Represent SAFER through presentations and workshops at national conferences.

Community Educator for the Domestic Violence Education and Prevention Program. Present to diverse audiences on the topics of Healthy Friendships (Anti-Bullying) and Healthy Relationships (Anti- Teen Dating Violence.) Promote, develop and write curriculum for teen volunteer training, with an emphasis on the Jr. Facilitator track. Develop and implement evaluation tools. Organize and run annual Summer Institute for teen advocates and Love Shouldn't Hurt, an annual teen conference.