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Arlington, Virginia, United States

Contractor for Department of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Directorate of Cyber and Technology Security (CTS) | Leads CTS communications initiatives and directly supports the Deputy Assistant Secretary, executive team, and the directorate offices.Primary point of contact and/or organizer for CTS participation in events, speaking engagements, conferences, student programs and fellowships, videos and podcasts.Fulfills design requests from leadership and teams, creates senior-level briefings and videos, and provides voice-overs.Creates and maintains communications product templates, and designs a variety of modern print, digital, and video educational materials. Redesigned and maintains the directorate's intranet website and created an internal document sharing platform to house SOPs, templates, onboarding materials, and pre-cleared messaging, talking points, and media.Coordinates with Five Eye partners (UK, CA, AUS, NZ) in a Cyber Cohort in an effort to expand international cooperation on cyber. Serves as the directorate's point of contact for DS Public Affairs, coordinating on media opportunities and social media. Reviews cyber educational materials, resources, and social media for the Cybersecurity Awareness Team.In June and July 2023, served as interim Special Assistant to the DS/CTS Deputy Assistant Secretary, a GS-13 to GS-14 equivalent position with Chief of Staff responsibilities, while maintaining Communications Coordinator role. Coordinated with Bureau of Diplomatic Security's Front Office as primary point of contact for the CTS Directorate on task assignments, cables, and engagement with DS principals.

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Serves as Communications Lead for the Department of State's task forces on cyber incidents. The Communications Lead is supported by a team and is responsible for preparing daily updates, executive and capstone summaries, briefing talking points and materials, congressional briefing notes, diagrams, and final reports at a variety of classification and distribution levels. Coordinates with Diplomatic Security's Public Affairs team on messaging consistency and containment in the press, and reviews responses for media requests for statements. Organizes briefings to educate employees and agency partners on lessons learned.

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Contractor for the U.S. Department of State | Directorate of Cyber and Technology Security | Supported the Deputy Assistant Secretary and executive team, and the three directorate divisions.Responsible for creation and maintenance of a directorate strategic communications plan, metrics and analysis, and communications goal setting for 2022 and onward. Created and maintained communications product templates. Served as a liaison with the public affairs office. Fulfilled design requests from leadership and teams, creates high-level briefings and videos, and provides voice-over for videos as needed.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Contractor for U.S. Department of State | Cybersecurity Awareness Program | Led the CTS Cybersecurity Awareness team with the mission of educating Department of State employees on cyber best practices in a range of accessible formats for any level of cyber understanding. Consistently sought and acted on opportunities to improve program efficiency and product effectiveness, including creating web and mobile-friendly formats of cybersecurity guides, expanding SharePoint functionality, launching user surveys for security officers at Post and integrating feedback and suggestions into program offerings. Edited content for cybersecurity articles, emerging threat bulletins, fact sheets, infographics, cyber newsletter articles, etc.Updated briefing content and design regularly, presented briefings to hundreds of employees annually, and created video recordings to accommodate an increased telework environment.Led a five-year content and design update of the State Department's mandatory cybersecurity training course, taken by over 100,000 employees and contractors annually.Designed an executive-level cyber daily brief and developed associated user-friendly templates and style guide. Led production and distribution of CTS educational materials for Cybersecurity Awareness Month each October, coordinating with other bureaus and agencies.Fulfilled annual contract deliverables including a program plan and effectiveness report.

Arlington, Va

Subcontractor with Insight Global for U.S. Department of State | Cybersecurity Awareness Program | Graphic designer for Cybersecurity Awareness products.Overhauled monthly awareness campaign to include a variety of designed products.Conducted research and crafted language for bulletins, fact sheets, infographics, memos, etc.Presented cybersecurity briefing to State Department interns throughout the year.Compiled and distributed cyber news newsletter thrice weekly.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Spearheaded production of a new current affairs podcast, CNA Talks. Produced topic ideas, booked CNA experts and guests, created podcast logo, wrote scripts, expert bios and show notes, uploaded episodes and distributed to media, and promoted on social media.Served as project team lead for redesign of corporate website. Tasked with expanding CNA's presence on SIPRNet and classified social media platforms.Consulted as a SME for a research project on U.S. Army recruiting via social media.Maintained responsibilities from prior role.

Arlington, Va

Coordinated press interviews for CNA experts and CNN, BBC, VOA, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and more. Assisted with media luncheons and panel events.Managed corporate website and social media accounts, and tracked analytics on all platforms. Led the project team for redesigning the website and regularly implemented design and functionality improvements.Built an online experts guide to showcase CNA's many subject matter experts. Designed both the front end and back end database to ensure connectivity throughout the website.Wrote and edited press releases, tip-sheets, outreach emails, operations memos. Designed presentations, recruitment ads, infographics and webpages.

1750 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington Dc

Compiled the 2015 Investment Directory for the Energy Access Practitioner Network. Crafted graphic designs for media use, wrote press releases and official statements. Ran social media campaigns and grew the team's Twitter reach by 824%.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Interned for three months at the Greenpeace USA headquarters with the Student Network team. Organized the annual summer Activist Summit, which brings together 50 top student activists for four days of advanced trainings in Virginia. Managed Activist Summit recruitment, travel scholarships, transportation and logistics, including phone banking, email communications, and organizational spreadsheets. Researched and created an interactive map cross-referencing locations of Duke Energy power plants and all universities on the company's power grid.

Friday Harbor, San Juan Islands, Wa

Interned for two summers as part of a team working on FHL lab director' research. Identified and measured marine species digitally. Analyzed ocean floor data and entered data into the laboratory database. Constructed ocean floor transect equipment. Drove the research/dive boat and exercised diver safety and assistance policies.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science: Environmental Policy

Activities and Societies: Student Environmental Action Coalition, UNH Peace and Justice LeagueStudent Environmental Action Coalition, UNH.

High School Degree

Student Leader - Boarding School Prefect Environmental Club - President Food Committee - Leading Student Representative Anti-Bullying.