Chapter Director for the Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter of the Sierra Club, representing Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, California

• Created and managed Sierra Club Florida News, which covered climate change’s growing impact in FL and efforts to switch to solar-powered electric transportation and buildings.• Wrote hundreds of press releases, op-eds, brochures, social media posts, speeches, presentations and press conference on curbing climate change in Florida.• Led successful, media-focused campaigns to stop the conversion of Homestead Air Force Base into an international airport between Everglades and Biscayne National Parks.• Led successful public campaign to build Everglades Skyway, a series of bridges on Tamiami Trail (U.S. 41), to reestablish fresh water flow to Everglades and Florida Bay.• Served as Florida spokesperson and media relations representative for Sierra Club national and state chapter campaigns.

Responsible for media relations. Wrote press releases, copy for Museum publications and coordinated media coverage, provided interviews on television and radio.

Reported on local human interest stories and news in Broward County, Florida. Covered several municipalities.

Wrote articles, conducted interviews and assisted in editing the official professional magazine for U.S. diplomats.

Wrote press releases and coordinated media coverage of a National Geographic sponsored undersea educational exploration program by oceanographer Bob Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic. Planned communications for a voyage broadcast live to North American museums and schools for Squires Media.

Wrote, edited and produced radio news and feature reports for a worldwide audience.

Wrote five Jack Anderson columns as reporter for national daily syndicated column in The Washington Post and 650 newspapers. Researcher for for "Stormin' Norman" a biography of General Norman Schwarzkopf.