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Richmond, Va, Us

Richmond, Va, Us

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Developing, organizing and implementing social media strategy for the Advancing Capacity for the Environment (ACE) program supporting the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID's) climate change, environment, energy and infrastructure objectives.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Provide immediate data-driven communications support to the public, private and non-profit sectors. Projects include leading a creative team in the creation of a mobile experience to attract tourism to New York state, developing a sales playbook to guide and measure brand experiences for the life sciences company Revvity, content planning a Black History Month and Women’s History Month social media campaign for the education non-profit ASCD.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Ideated with development industries and policy advocates to create comprehensive and actionable communications plans for a greener, more inclusive, transparent and efficient Latin American and Caribbean region. I made videos, wrote organic and paid social media, connected with influencers and drove email marketing, designed websites.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Strategically communicated and streamlined operations that supported sustainable development and innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean. I edited and reviewed all English copy and multimedia for publication on the Inter-American Development Bank's corporate social media channels, developed 20 guides to aid in the creation of impactful digital content and live-streamed over 100 events.Winner of the Silver Award for most effective planning, research, and evaluation in the public and non-profit sector by the International Association for the Measurement and Evaluation of Communication (AMEC) for work completed during the 2021 Inter-American Development Bank Annual Meeting, which received 8 million digital impressions and 55,000 media mentions from 25,000 unique authors.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Led media relations efforts and wrote communication plans, talking points, press releases and op-eds to advocate for the legislative goals of clients. Additionally, I managed the creative team’s workflow and produced videos and branding elements.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Produced events, videos and communication campaigns for a variety of clients. View some of my projects below.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Increased awareness of “public diplomacy” and its concepts while using technology and platforms to innovate in the field. I co-managed the Center on Public Diplomacy's social media channels by developing digestible research-based content into posts, videos and branded imagery and conducted strategy research to drive data into curation via an editorial calendar and launched the Instagram account @PublicDiplomacy.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Supported the Executive Education and Soft Skills curriculums to increase the flexibility and effectiveness of development and business leaders’ communication. I designed all files and provided presentation support for the World Bank-Annenberg Summer Institute in Reform Communication: Leadership, Strategy and Stakeholder Alignment, delivering communication training for 13 development leaders from 12 countries, and analyzed Google Analytics and participant surveys to increase recruitment numbers of 4 Executive Education programs.

Greater New York City Area

Planned live brand experience events and campaigns to connect audiences to messages from global and local brands by selling projects–for new and repeat business development–writing contracts, contracting vendors and reconciling the project’s expenses. I oversaw budgets from 10k-2M by projecting all costs of a client’s project, using software to track costs to date and team hours spent, processing vendor invoices, reconciling the budget and reporting revenue and managed project content and teams from 3-25 people.

Greater New York City Area

Organized all client information on servers, created agendas and recorded notes for all meetings and built strong vendor relationships to obtain discounts for clients.

Greater Boston Area; Baltimore, Md; New York, New York

Aided in tasks onsite from the scheduling of film shoots to location scouting to running errands to managing audio. Projects included:-Yoga Foster 2014-Tinsel & Twine Events 2014-Oceanic Preservation Society "Racing Extinction" 2014-Game Show Network "The Chase" 2014 -CVS Health "One Good Reason" 2014-Wellcaster Yoga "Family Yoga" 2014-Heineken "Around the World" 2013-American Idol "Season 13 Boston Auditions" 2013-American Ninja Warrior "Season 5 Baltimore Auditions" 2013-So You Think You Can Dance "Season 10 Boston Auditions" 2013

Greater Los Angeles Area

Assisted Executive Producer Mark Burnett who produced the shows The Voice, The Apprentice, Survivor, Shark Tank and more by creating fact sheets for press events, collaborating with the marketing team to plan the premiere of the miniseries “The Bible”, and supporting the production team with seasons 3 and 4 of The Voice.

Canberra, Australia

Performed tasks to help accomplish initiatives set forth by President Barack Obama and the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. I discussed policy with members of the Australian Parliament and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, drafted cables to Washington, D.C. and engaged the Australian public on social media and in person.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Incentivized young women to run for political office through teaching public speaking and helping to plan a week-long political training program for high school women, the Young Women’s Political Leadership Program (YWLP).

Master Of Public Diplomacy, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Society of Public Diplomats President 2018

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Communication Studies, 3.7

Activities and Societies: Emerson LA Internship Program Recipient 2012 Communications Politics and Law Association Treasurer EVVY Awards.

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