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Austin, Texas, United States

• Provide client-facing strategic communications, fundraising, video, social media, and content marketing services to nonprofit organizations, law firms, North America's largest credential-evaluation service, Austin's largest outdoor-advertising company, Baylor University’s entrepreneur-in-residence, candidates for statewide and local office, and others• Craft donor communications for a Texas-based affordable-housing organization with 50,000 subscribers, raising and allocating hundreds of thousands of dollars over five years• Served as senior communications advisor to 2018 Texas Attorney General candidate Justin Nelson, who came within 3.6 percentage points of victory• Manage teams of web developers, graphic designers, SEO specialists, data providers, filmmakers, and direct-mail vendors

Austin, Texas, United States

• Supervised communications and research staff at award-winning public affairs agency specializing in advocacy consulting, crisis management, and media relations• Owned client accounts with members of the Fortune Global 50 and Fortune 500, Texas gubernatorial candidates, national and statewide trade associations, high-profile law firms, and the ninth-largest political donor in the nation• Wrote detailed story pitches leading to client coverage in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CNN, USA Today, Bloomberg News, Politico, BusinessWeek, HuffPost, The Texas Tribune, The Houston Chronicle, and other news outlets

Austin, Texas, United States

• Designed web, social, search, email, television, radio, direct mail, outdoor, and media relations campaigns, managing individual budgets in excess of $100,000• Responsible for the strategy, creative work, and cross-platform marketing plan underlying the fastest-growing social network devoted to Texas politics• Placed hundreds of media stories on behalf of a technology firm engaged in litigation with 70 major financial institutions, resulting in $500 million in legal settlements and verdicts• Wrote proposals that won client contracts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and annual reports for a Texas-based foundation worth $350 million• Designed and managed consumer, jury, and voter focus groups

• Conducted legal research and edited legal briefs for regional law firm• Developed marketing plan and marketing collateral

New York, New York, United States

• Served as news and senior editor at Book, a bimonthly publication nominated for a National Magazine (Ellie) Award by the American Society of Magazine Editors• Helped grow Book's circulation to 1.4 million• Managed more than 20 staffers and freelancers and project budgets in excess of $20,000• Interviewed bestselling authors and wrote and edited news stories, features, and more• Conducted and analyzed focus-group research to better understand our subscribers and customers

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Covered the publishing and boating industries for Book and Sea Ray Living, a pair of national consumer magazines• Helped position Book as an acquisition target by the national bookselling chain Barnes & Noble• Pitched stories, interviewed authors and others, and recruited and managed freelance talent

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Supported the founding of Book and Sea Ray Living• Managed Book's news department, reported on the publishing industry, and recruited and managed freelance writers

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English Language And Literature/Letters

Activities and Societies: Manager of Student Radio KRTU 91.7 FM, Midfielder, Trinity Tigers Lacrosse

Certificate, Data Analysis And Visualization, A+

Seminars In English And History, St. John'S College