Leigh Chandler Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

I drive strategic communications planning​ for both ELM and the ELM Action Fund. This includes developing press strategy, leading the creation of marketing materials, and ensuring a unified voice and brand is consistent across all outgoing products.I also coordinate our strategic calendar of events and engagement opportunities. I lead invitations, planning, implementation, and follow-up for major events, as well as provide support for all other events.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, Ma

Boston, Ma

Boston, Ma

• Develop social media campaigns, write press releases, manage YW’s email marketing database, develop collateral in InDesign, and synthesize analytics each month in coordination with the Manager of Marketing and Communications• Create educational content, including articles and staff interviews for YW’s monthly e-newsletter The Leader and blog posts, including the top viewed post, “What is Intersectionality, and What Does It Have to Do with Me?”• Oversaw communications from June-August 2017 when YW’s Director of Marketing & Communications left the organization, including post-event follow-up and developing The Leader newsletter• Heading the Paid Family and Medical Leave focus area of the YW Advocacy Committee by organizing community partnerships and canvassing for signatures, and serving as the marketing liaison for the committee• Jumpstart and coordinate YW Boston’s Young Professionals Network by holding focus groups to access interests, hosting networking and learning events, and serving as an ambassador for young people interested in getting involved• Provide support to the fund development team by processing all donations, creating acknowledgement letters, proofreading grant materials, executing fundraising events, developing better data management strategies (including overseeing the development team’s switch to Salesforce), and identifying major gift prospects

Boston, Ma

• Organize individual donor and foundation donation information in Salesforce, tracking event and board member influence• Research grant opportunities, review prior applications, update grant and fundraising calendar, and assist in developing LOIs and grant applications• Assist the Director of Advancement and the Grants and Communication Manager with 826 Boston’s largest fundraiser of the year, Night of 1,000 Stories, assembling thank you gifts to donors, encouraging guests to bid in silent and live auctions, and documenting highlights of the night on social media • Upgrade 826 Boston’s storefront and Shopify online store, including pitching new ideas for store layout, developing new product bundles, updating the website with new products and inventory, and fulfilling orders

Davidson, Nc

• Communicate with guests and college departments one-on-one, by phone, and by email• Organize guest reservations, records, and payment online and on paper

Davidson, Nc

• Provide guidance to students seeking to better their public speaking abilities, one on one and in groups• Deliver class presentations and run workshops to aid students in developing and organizing their speeches• Trained in methodologies to assist with class presentations, presentations with a group, and interviews

• Assisted Dr. Marti with his editorial position of the Sociology of Religion journal by proofreading articles and communicating with Oxford publishers and article authors• Proofread, created bibliographies, and helped find research materials for Dr. Marti’s books and articles, including his sociology book, The Deconstructed Church

Summerville, Sc

• Developed and pitched the Storyboard America radio program to South Carolina ETV Radio, which has decided to help launch and produce the show• Applied for and secured a state agency grant, The SC Humanities Council’s Major Grant• Researched and wrote a grant proposal to The National Endowment for the Arts and two community foundation grants, each pending• Corresponded regularly with grant foundations and agencies, SC-ETV Radio producers, and participating library branches• Generated and distributed press releases to local newspapers• Operated soundboard and recording equipment for radio and podcast production

Pawleys Island, Sc

• Welcomed tourists while working at a gift shop praised for strong customer service• Worked closely with customers to help them purchase gifts, clothes, fudge, and Pawleys Island Original Hammocks• Gained experience with answering phones, mainly taking hammock orders

Ba, English And Communication Studies

Davidson College Study Abroad In India

A fall semester abroad program through Madras Christian College in South India which allowed me to travel throughout South Asia..

British Literature And History 1780-1850

A summer program abroad through Magdalene College at Cambridge which focused on an in-depth study of the UK during the long eighteenth.