Supervise the arrangements for growing denomination's General Conference and all related meetings

• Direct UM Action program, providing research, analysis, and strategic public messaging within America’s second-largest Protestant denomination, United Methodist Church (UMC), with progressively increasing levels of responsibility• Evaluate trends within complex, global, multi-million-member denomination• Establish vision and strategic directions for major projects• Promote greater international, cross-cultural cooperation and inclusion• Author key denominational policy changes• Analyze and explain complex policy proposals in widely understandable language• Write articles for the organization’s own publications as well as other media outlets, including major metropolitan newspapers• Commission and edit articles by other writers• Give interviews and pitch stories to external media outlets• Cultivate strategic connections with relevant journalists• Prepare and deliver speeches to audiences around the country as well as in Africa, the Philippines, and the Middle East• Help produce videos, podcasts, and press releases• Promote messaging through search engine optimization (SEO) and social media platforms• Respond to constituent concerns through phone calls and written correspondence• Organize prominent leaders of diverse backgrounds to work together on common concerns• Coach individuals to effectively promote shared values• Hire and supervise staff• Routinely raise funds

• Supervised Youth Pastor and Communications Director in 1200-member church • Oversaw hiring of new Communications Director• Recruited and trained small-group leaders• Established connections with visitors and assimilated new members• Managed audio/visual volunteer team • Assisted with worship leadership, hospital visits, and other ministry

• Organized senior church leaders to achieve common goals• Prepared in-depth analysis of hundreds of denominational policy and structural proposals

• Provided front-line patron service• Digitized books• Performed daily closing procedures

• Maintained organization of the Government Documents and Microforms collections for Harvard College Library system

• Identified and compiled sources for professor's graduate seminar and book project• Updated and edited course website

I worked as a hospital chaplain as part of Clinical Pastoral Education program. I conducted daily pastoral floor visits with patients and family members.

I visited international crews of commercial ships temporarily docked in Boston and provided assistance in meeting their practical, personal, and spiritual needs.

I provided worship leadership, taught a variety of religious education classes for children and adults, and conducted daily pastoral visits with hospitalized, homebound, and senior members.

• Authored position statements adopted by regional church bodies and the entire denomination • Wrote quarterly newsletter with circulation that reached 475,000

• Reported on developments within mainline Protestantism • Provided administrative support

• Provided front-line customer services• Administered reserve collection

• Compiled academic sources for Center’s Executive Director, bioethicist Gerard Magill