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• Create, write, and edit traditional and digital content, websites, press releases, grants, articles, and brochures. • Strategize with clients to improve results in communications and marketing. • Organize events from concept to wrap-up. Multitask and prioritize projects with ease. • Utilize creative problem solving to reach best results in most cost-efficient way. • Clients include Providence Saint John’s Health Center, Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Spitzer Space Telescope, Art Center College of Design, Woodbury University, Gary Sinise Foundation, Marymount California University, Huntington Library, and Mount St. Mary’s University. • College essay advisor and editor. Give guidance and thoughtful feedback. Clients admitted to Ivy League schools, UCLA and other UCs, USC, Boston College, Fordham, Vanderbilt, U of Chicago, U of Kansas, and NYU.

• Teach English language development using creative digital and traditional techniques. • Conducted online state-mandated language testing. • Created a collection of students' writing and art into a book for students, their teachers and their parents.• During Covid, successfully transitioned to teaching online with no training. • Arranged a virtual field trip to a farm as an end-of-year surprise for students.• Used Zoom, Google Sites, online, and traditional curricula.

• Managed all media relations activities for major research university. 5-person staff. Led multi-departmental projects, and communications plans with faculty, administrators, Nobel laureates, students, external partners.• Managed media briefings with Stephen Hawking, visits by Bill Clinton and Shaquille O’Neal, and Nobel Prize events.• Managed faculty/staff media training in preparation for controversial news and coordinated response to student suicide.• Managed first-ever national survey to gauge awareness of Caltech prior to capital campaign. Caltech was the subject of more than 2,000 media stories each year around the globe.• Managed award-winning $500,000 capital campaign video with 30 interviews.• Helped produce “Curious,” an Emmy-nominated PBS documentary about Caltech that aired on 500 stations.• Created “Loh Down on Science,” a funny, short-form science radio program/podcast.• Founded award-winning “Earthquakes 101” programs for journalists taught by seismologists.• Coordinated numerous lab tours for the media, placed opeds in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times. Arranged and accompanied faculty on media visits in New York City, Washington, DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New Orleans.

• Oversaw all public relations efforts for Catholic women’s liberal arts college. Managed budget, two staff members.• Published College’s first experts’ directory and managed website redesign.• Media placements included New York Newsday, LAT, and NBC4.• Redesigned quarterly magazine. Saved $30,000 a year in paper, design costs. Managed editorial board.• Created Marketing Committee to establish collegewide marketing guidelines.• Managed programs to combat negative community relations. Efforts to revoke College’s Conditional Use Permit and threats of lawsuits halted. 200+ neighbors became College friends. Designed and distributed newsletter for neighbors.

• Managed media placements in the NYT, Chronicle of Higher Education, LAT, and network affiliates.• Coordinated interviews for LMU and Loyola Law School faculty, helping establish a national media presence for several faculty members.• Created PR website centralizing campus press releases and experts’ database.• Wrote and edited faculty/staff newsletter.

Served in multiple positions at each job including city government, crime, education, features, editor of weekly entertainment magazine.