Serving as the Acting Communications Director for this national organization has me directing the message and digital campaigns for the 2024 election.

I've spent 20 years working on stories in the public debate in different ways. Now I am helping progressive champions tell the story of their campaign, their issue, their brand, or their candidacy.I want to help you do two things: change the narrative, and create a narrative for change. Let's make some noise. + Leading a consultant network to provide strategy and communication support to progressive change-makers ranging from grassroots activists to global non-profits.+ Top-flight strategic and communications advice and message creation. + Development of creative, persuasive, and strategic content, including op-eds, social media copy, speeches, website copy, core talking points, and more. + Success in national, state, and local press relations campaigns. + Training in narrative change strategy, media interviews, campaign planning, awww.narrativechange.net

+ Directed all of the external-facing work of this national grassroots political advocacy organization, overseeing all campaigns and a 17-person staff spread across communications, Washington advocacy, and field organizing. Reported directly to the CEO. + Led the organization through a period of unprecedented growth and impact, more than doubling the email list, implementing a new field model that increased the number of local chapters from 4 to 14, and increasing media exposure over 400 percent. + Led the strategy, message and execution of two of the most successful campaigns in the history of the organization: -- The 2016 "We've Seen This Before" campaign against the candidacy of Donald Trump, named the Most Valuable Activist Campaign of 2016 by The Nation magazine. -- The 2018 historic #LetMyPeopleStay Jewish civil disobedience action at the US Capitol on behalf of Dreamers, which spawned a national wave of Jewish and other faith actions. + Drove an operational and culture change that integrated previously fractured operational teams into a unified campaigning force that uses multiple modes of change to achieve a common goal. + Regularly amplified the organization’s power through coalition building. Organized a united demand across the progressive movement for the resignation of Steve Bannon after Charlottesville riots. + Member of the executive team responsible for top-level management, budgeting, long-term strategy, and personnel decisions.

• Team leader at one of the nation’s leading progressive strategic communications and media relations firms. Managed multiple staff. • Delivered high-level counsel on messaging, political strategy, campaign strategy, and media relations for over a dozen national progressive and non-profit clients, including The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel, and Boston Community Capital. • Authored branding and strategic messaging for the Knight Foundation’s $15 million Knight Cities Challenge, a major legislative campaign for Physicians for Reproductive Health, and others. Oversaw all writing and editing on all clients.• Regularly placed clients in The New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, MSNBC and other national outlets. Oversaw all media outreach on all clients. • Improved internal systems at the firm by creating new contact databases, proposing and piloting new workflow management processes, and proposing and implementing changes in time-tracking.• Member of management team, with responsibilities in hiring, staff development and oversight.

• Oversee all communications strategy, operations, and budget. Manage communications staff. • Write major speeches and talking points, oversee and edit messaging from all departments.• Developed strategic message statement, in concert with Senator and senior staff, to define priorities for entire office.• Oversee new media operations, including aggressive Twitter and Facebook outreach and redesign of the official website. • Personally responsible for all national press relationships. Oversee all press relations for office

• In charge of all communications strategy and press. Wrote all press releases, speeches, op-eds, media talking points, and website content.• Developed and executed budget for extensive mail, phone, email, and web campaigns.• Helped devise and execute communications strategy for the 68-member New Democrat Coalition during its heavy involvement in Wall Street reform legislation in the House. • Part of four-person Congressional senior staff team that advised Member on all strategic political and policy decisions. • Campaign spokesman; helped write campaign’s TV advertising and direct mail campaigns.

• Chicago City Hall/Cook County Board beat writer, covering city and county government and politics.• Lead investigative writer for newsroom, managing team of reporters on projects I initiatied.• Winner and finalist of prestigious Lisagor awards from the Chicago Headline Club, honorable mention for the Better Government Association’s George Bliss Award for Investigative Reporting, two-time winner of 1st place national award from the Suburban Newspapers of America, multiple awards for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place from Illinois Associated Press and Illinois Press Association.

• General assignment, covering breaking news and features for national audience. Wrote print and radio copy.

• Washington correspondent for the Santa Fe New Mexican, the Las Vegas Sun, and space.com.