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Greater Seattle Area

I work with non-profits, businesses, and other clients in to build exceptional messaging and creative campaigns that amplify empathy, further understanding, and move policies, action, and ideas. Those communications campaigns take whatever form delivers on outcomes (and within resources): strategic communications planning and messaging, statewide media and public relations, writing and content development, focused legislative engagement, grassroots and community advocacy, or creative digital marketing and super graphics. My work in-house at non-profits and a decade with an issues and advocacy public relations firm brings broad, cross-sector experience and a deep toolbox for identifying and planning the right tactics that can propel your issues and ideas and facilitate dialogue.Services: Messaging and strategic communications; earned media campaigns; public policy and issues advocacy; writing and editing; brand identity and marketing; community outreach; transcreation and translation coordination; stakeholder engagement; community events; media training; speech writing and coaching; crisis communications; project management and evaluation.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Co-owner, brand manager, problem solver, and proud creator at Capitol Hill bar and restaurant, Life On Mars. Come select some vinyl to play during happy hour.

Greater Seattle Area

I collaborate with Team Soapbox to deliver communications campaigns and writing on causes including increasing access to health care and education, making our roadways safer, the move to cleaner energy.Team Soapbox are storytellers who give voice to issues that inspire change, with clients cross many industries from the non-profit, public and private sectors; they are united in making a difference in our own backyards and around the world.

Greater Seattle Area

Wake Up Production is a music and arts events production and consulting business, booking and promoting events in virtually every music genre with audiences of all ages, of every type from 100-person rooms to 5,000 person amphitheaters and festivals statewide. Handle financials and forecasting, planning, marketing, sponsorship, and the occasional rider fulfillment or last minute run to pick up a hazer.

Executive Committee member, Co-Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee, Co-Chair of the Communications Committee.VERA is an all-ages volunteer-fueled music and arts venue. By engaging participants at all levels of music production and community organizing, Vera fulfills its mission to foster a participatory creative culture through popular music concerts, arts programs, experiential learning and volunteer opportunities for all ages, especially young people.

Consulted on branding and marketing of City Arts Fest’s inaugural year, strategic messaging and marketing,and promoted the four-day city-wide festival to local, regional and national media..

Responsible for media relations, outreach, and social-change marketing for a non-profit think tank which aims to bring about a sustainable economy and way of life in the Northwest. Conducted media campaigns for research reports in the US and Canada, including the Cascadia Scorecard, an annual report on key environmental trends.Strategic planning and execution of multi-state, concurrent public relations campaigns to promote policy solutions. Ongoing proactive and reactive media work and relationship cultivation.