- In partnership with the Co-Executive Director and the Board, responsible for providing the vision, direction, inspiration and motivation necessary to ensure the foundation’s success as it relates to the foundation's mission to invest in the people, programs and movements that benefit Colorado youth and families. Includes mission stewardship, board relations, values and ethical standards management and identity management.- Make decisions that result in efficient and effective foundation functioning. Includes financial management, programmatic management, legal issues management, and accountability and evaluation management. - Contribute to the dialogue, vision and direction of the pertinent communities within the fieldsof the foundation’s focus areas; and to the field of philanthropy. Includes visionary leadership, partnership management, education and public engagement, and issue-area visionary leadership.

- In partnership with the Board, responsible for providing the vision, direction, inspiration and motivation necessary to ensure the foundation’s success as it relates to the foundation's mission to invest in the people, programs and movements that benefit Colorado youth and families. Includes mission stewardship, board relations, values and ethical standards management and identity management.- Make decisions that result in efficient and effective foundation functioning. Includes financial management, programmatic management, legal issues management, and accountability and evaluation management. - Contribute to the dialogue, vision and direction of the pertinent communities within the fieldsof the foundation’s focus areas; and to the field of philanthropy. Includes visionary leadership, partnership management, education and public engagement, and issue-area visionary leadership.

- Establish and develop relationships with current and prospective grant recipient organizations. Understand the needs they are addressing within the communities they serve and how to evaluate impact.- Responsible for screening, processing and tracking grant applications to ensure they meet the Foundation’s eligibility guidelines and assess fit with the Foundation’s interests and funding priorities. Make initial recommendations to Executive Director and provide Board of Directors and staff with history of applications, grants, disbursements, relevant background, and procedures. - Develop grant guidelines and master schedule for managing annual proposal/grant information and prepare appropriate correspondence regarding the status of proposals and funding decisions to applicants and grantees.

- Client-facing lead for 25 clients (300+ projects over 4 years) ranging from start-ups to Fortune 300 companies. Responsible for managing aggressive timelines, budgets and an extremely busy, talented team of designers and programmers in the U.S. and Vietnam assigned to each account. - Client-facing lead on projects while personally specializing in copywriting, copyediting and content-generation. Extremely detail-oriented.- Projects span the digital space including websites, microsites, videos, iPhone/iPad applications, social media campaigns, email campaigns, animations and interactive games. Beyond digital, projects also include photography projects and print marketing collateral.- Clients include (but are not limited to) DigitalGlobe, Ball Corporation, Ball Foundation, Front Porch Digital, Western Union, Charter Business, Parkinson's Association of the Rockies, CH2M HILL Foundation, etc.Account managed the following award-winning projects:- Self-Promotional (Carbon8 - Water Glass) 2014 Business Marketing Association- B2B Pro Bono (Parkinson's Association of the Rockies) 2014 Business Marketing Association- Branding/Rebranding (Claremont Foods) 2013 Business Marketing Association - B2B Pro Bono (Parkinson's Association of the Rockies) 2012 Business Marketing Association

- Create, plan and execute strategic marketing campaigns across multiple mediums for clients in consumer packaged goods and nonprofit industries. - Integrated and coordinated social media campaigns and promotions on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter with traditional marketing tactics to encourage positive, proactive engagement among clients' target audiences.- Sharpened copywriting and editing skills by creating compelling brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, proposals, press releases and headlines/taglines.- Clients include (but are not limited to) Fresh Gourmet, Mikawaya Mochi Ice Cream, Robinson Crusoe Seafood, Prototypes.org, etc.

- Planned, organized and executed Media Days in various cities for the Smucker’s Stars on Ice nationwide tour with Olympic, world and national figure skating champions. - Create informative, compelling media advisories, press releases and fact sheets for national, world and Olympic athletes. - Responsible for the public relations campaign for the film April Showers directed by a Columbine High School survivor about his experience during the tragedy during which I secured placements with CNN, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Associated Press, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Good Day L.A., Moviemaker Magazine and extensive other print, broadcast, radio and online placements. - Pitch appropriate media outlets to set up interviews with headliners and top musical talent and plan, organize and execute Media Days in various cities and markets. - Production assistant, PR, assistant stage management and Web site/logo design using Dreamweaver and Photoshop for Disson Skating events.

I competed with journalism students throughout Colorado for a Colorado Press Association internship. I was given the opportunity to report for ten weeks in Steamboat and awarded a $2,000 scholarship. General responsibilities include:- Responsible for writing one to three stories daily regarding city government, politics and general assignments- Credited with 15 front-page stories- Contributed various photos to accompany stories

- Travel writer in Ecuador and Bolivia covering Misahualli, Tena and cities in Bolivia. - Traveled to and reviewed accommodations, restaurants and activities for an online and printed travel guide.

Prior to my arrival, the hip Concierge position at hip Consulting Group was relatively undefined. Responsibilities included:- assisting in the creative design, planning and on-site execution of national and international corporate events ranging from 10 - 600 attendees- producing and distributing all communication materials between the client and all attendees and utilizing high levels of customer service- designing creative concepts for events, proposal development, communication materials, copy writing, budget management and vendor research

- Supported a small, efficient event planning agency in Madrid, Spain, with marketing and administrative duties.- Provided on-site support in Valencia for El Chupete, Spain's first international festival for kids advertising and communication. This independent festival's mission is to annually award and recognize the best creative work targeting kids and give professional recognition to all of the advertisers, advertising agencies and producers who invest a large part of their efforts into this type of communication and reward responsible communication.