Joined the staff of Collegiate Presbyterian Church and the Vine Campus Ministry in Ames, Iowa just before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. As churches around the world adapted to the pandemic, facilitated bringing CPC’s church community online through implementation of new communication strategies and updated brand standards. This improvement of the church’s marketing funnel and focus on building online community led to online audience growth and high engagement with email marketing: worship is now hybrid with half of weekly attendance being virtual; the weekly email mailing list has a 60%+ open rate and 10%+ click rate. Invited in 2023 to present at a conference for campus ministries on The Vine's social media focused marketing strategy.

Remote communications work including email marketing; social media management; copy editing; proofreading; citations and copyright permissions.

Assisted lead organizer of AMOS Iowa, an advocacy network of nonprofits in Central Iowa, with communications strategy and production. Designed and implemented messaging plans for fundraising campaigns, events, and issue-focused organizing. In 2019, managed a full communication strategy for a “get out the vote” campaign in the 400k+ constituency of Polk County and Des Moines, Iowa. This campaign led to passage of a one-cent local option sales tax that was used to fund children’s mental health crisis services and address important infrastructure needs.

Supported the mission of inclusion and outreach at Ames United Church of Christ by overseeing church communications, interacting with community members, and maintaining the administrative needs of the organization. At that time, Ames United Church of Christ had taken on a role among Ames churches of particular emphasis on LGBTQ+ inclusion and equality. This became a subject of national interest in 2018-2019 as the church became a target of an anti-LGBTQ+ hate campaign and an incident of hate crime. During this period, assisted in crisis communication and monitored social media interaction; worked with other staff and volunteers to plan safe, affirming events for LGBTQ+ teens.

TA for one section of Introduction to Sociology (approx 250 students a semester): graded weekly assignments, met with students and held office hours, kept gradebook, etc.

Working with Dr. Terry Besser in ISU's sociology dept, assisting in research on business networks' influence on small business corporate social responsibility.