A proven communications leader and writer with the natural ability to work with senior leadership and surface compelling stories to place your company in a positive light.Strengths include building PR strategies, messaging, crisis communications, media relations, storytelling, and social media. Strong, conversational writer with keen ability to take complicated legal matters and create engaging marketing and PR materials. Produced a documentary about a legal trailblazer that is currently broadcast on PBS and played at the Kansas City FilmFest in 2017. For more information about "Amazing Grace," contact kclegaltrailblazers@gmail.comPanelist, Career Day, University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 11/2024.Immediate past co-chair for the Legal Marketing Association's national PR and Communications Special Interest Group (SIG) and served as past chair of the Kansas City local Steering Committee, LMA, 2020. Co-Hosted podcast, "How Great Marketers Overcome Attorney Apathy to Win Trust and Deliver Results," LMA, 7/2022.Authored article, "Keep Clients Top of Mind When Announcing Awards," Strategies & Voices, 4/2022.Co-Hosted podcast, "Aligning PR Strategies with BD Goals - How Tos and How Nots," LMA, 1/2022.Organized, with my co-chair, "Harnessing the Power of PR," all-day communications event for the national Legal Marketing Association annual conference, 10/22/2021.Emceed Charlie's House "Safe Home Safe Child" Awards honoring various nonprofits and individuals for their work protecting children, Kansas City, 9/30/2021.Interviewed by Fox4 News, "Twenty Years After 9-11," with Toby Cook as we anchored together the morning of 9-11. Co-Moderated Panel, "Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze: Awards and Honors," LMA national, 9/2021.Co-Moderated Panel, "Crisis Communications and Social Media Essentials During Turbulent Times" for the national LMA PR & Communications Special Interest Group (SIG) partnering with the Social Media SIG. 3/2021Present nationally and regionally, "The Power of Podcasting," Legal Marketing Association, 2019 and 2017.Moderated panel of journalists and legal marketers, "Legal PR: Engaging the Media in a Meaningful Manner," Legal Marketing Association, 6/2019.Authored article, "Six Ways to Increase Chances of Earned Media in 2019," JD Supra, 2/2019.Featured in podcast, “A Passion for Podcasts” produced by the Legal Marketing Association. 6/2018.