I lead a talented team of communications professionals who focus on a variety of areas including media and legislative relations, social media, internal communications, education initiatives and consumer protection/responsible gaming campaigns. Our award-winning team is inspired each day to promote the brand of the Virginia Lottery, as well as work to maintain the organization's integrity and transparency with our key stakeholders. All Virginia Lottery profits support public education K-12 in the Commonwealth and our team is committed to playing its role to ensure that we support the Lottery's mission of contributing to Virginia’s future one play at a time.

As part of the Virginia Lottery’s Communications Department, I currently lead a team that includes a Social Media Specialist who oversees all of our social channels, a Communications Specialist who focuses on winner awareness, media relations and legislative relations, and a Communications Associate whose focus is internal communications and Game Guy's social channels. A majority of my time is spent directly on the Lottery’s education initiatives. I oversee our award-winning Super Teacher Awards program which is designed to honor outstanding educators across the state. After 10 years and 80 surprise presentations, we are ready to take this program to the next level: Super School will launch in fall 2018. I also lead our “Thank a Teacher” campaign, designed to thank as many public school teachers as possible in conjunction with National Teacher Appreciation Week. This program earned the Lottery two PRSA Silver Anvil awards! And, I am lucky to be involved in a variety of other programs related to spreading the word that all Virginia Lottery profits support public education K-12 in the Commonwealth. I am fortunate to work at the Virginia Lottery where we’re game for fun, but most importantly we're game to contribute to Virginia’s future one play at a time.