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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Creating visual and narrative experiences to showcase the treasures at the Library of Congress.

Executive-level mentorship, program development, and presentations. Topics include communications strategy, digitization of scholarly materials, exhibition design, and visitor experience for both online and physical spaces.Past clients include: Royal Academy (London), Royal Institution (London), Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, New York Botanical Garden, Folger Shakespeare Library, Walters Art Gallery, The Beaumont Hotel (London)Lecture venues include: Oxford University, Yale University; UC Berkeley; Johns Hopkins University; McGill UniversityWritten achievements include: Digital exhibition strategy for American Library Association, Rare Book and Manuscript Section; Digital strategy for Bibliographical Society of America

Washington, Dc

Chief communications officer for the Library of Congress’s Chief Information Officer (CIO). Designed and implemented first formal communications and public affairs framework for the Library’s Information Technology (IT) enterprise.Wrote, edited, and revised extensive Congressional testimony. Authored executive-level press releases, news articles, speeches, presentations, briefing statements, and Congressional correspondence.Directed communications plans and strategies that included “Ted Talk”-style public forums. Audiences included nearly 500 in-person attendees, as well as 500+ staff viewing the live-stream. Managed social media for Library IT including blogging, Twitter, and other platforms.Designed and led comprehensive analysis of all internal and external agency IT communications. Led external communications with agencies, commercial partners, and the press.Confidential advisor to the CIO, the Deputy CIO, and all reporting Senior Leadership on matters of public affairs and communications strategy. Provided staffing plans for supervision of public affairs specialists, writer/editors, and content experts.

Library Of Congress, Washington Dc

Senior advisor in public affairs and communications strategy for the U.S. Congress’s public policy think tank, the Congressional Research Service (CRS). Responsible for authoring, review and implementation of strategic communications.Designed and launched initiatives in social media, created internal and external presentations, managed media relations and press inquiries. Authored talking points and executive correspondence. Wrote, reviewed, and disseminated agency mission statements and strategic plans.Director of large-scale digital projects for the U.S. Congress. E.g.: CRS.gov, a site exclusively for Congress and their staff (2M views/year; 20K pages), two event-based mobile sites for members of the Congress and their staff, and the CRS staff intranet. Led branding and marketing efforts, including production of video features, as well as physical assets such as posters, tri-folds, and distribution materials.

Library Of Congress, Washington Dc

Leader in providing innovative communications strategies to Congress. Author of numerous long-range plans for technology, new media, and digitization. Team leader for digital design, information architecture, interface development, and user experience.Director of two Legislative Branch websites: The CRS extranet (for Congressional use only) providing a portal to more than 10,000 CRS reports, studies, and research analyses; and the CRS Staff intranet, including development of podcasts, webcasts, audio, video, wikis, blogging, and other new media. Procurement officer for enterprise-scale platforms delivering research assets to Congressional members and staff. Key resource for reviewing and implementing creative, institutionally-appropriate projects and directions. Panelist for numerous job classifications and interview/selection committees.

Washington, Dc

Directed the rare book digitization operations for the Library of Congress's National Digital Library Program. Led a team of as many as eleven diverse professionals. Managed the digitization of hundreds of thousands of digital items sourced from the Library's rare book collections.Authored curatorial essays and educational curricula for online exhibitions. Received numerous awards for creativity and leadership.Delivered numerous lectures on topics of digitization and online exhibitions; audiences include government officials from: National Library of China, Royal Dutch Library, Biblioteca Nacional (Brazil), Staatsbibliothek Göttingen.Served as founding chair of the Library of Congress Digital Imaging Committee, authoring Congressional testimony and guiding the Library's early identity as the world's largest digital library.

Cambridge, Ma

Cataloger, curator, and co-curator of fine art and rare book exhibitions at Harvard University. Conducted full bibliographic cataloging and OCLC copy-cataloging of rare books and manuscripts dating from the 13th Century to the mid-20th Century in all Western European languages.Participated in the planning and mounting of scholarly symposia. Edited and designed a Harvard-published bibliographic catalogue of 19th-century "pirate editions" of Sherlock Holmes.

Mfa, Writing And Publishing

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English Language And Literature, General