Develop and edit print and electronic newsletters, long-form magazine feature articles, columns, and blogs to promote the brand and visibility of this international non-profit organization with a membership of more than 70,000. Serve as staff liaison to an organization membership section, providing staff support to the executive board in its election process, business and board meetings, and outreach to the general section membership.Oversee development of fire safety educational materials–fact sheets, brochures, videos, directories, and lesson plans–for people with disabilities as staff liaison for the disabilities task force.Develop educational sessions for the organizations’ annual international conference and trade show by recruiting panelists and choosing session topics. Serve as a panelist at sessions.Promote the brand of NFPA by speaking at fire and life safety conferences, writing guest columns for fire and safety trade publications, and pitching story ideas to local, segmented, and national print and electronic publications.Developed a South Africa adaptation of the organization’s pre-school fire safety program. Traveled to Johannesburg and Cape Town to work with a South Africa curriculum development group on the teacher’s guide, companion story book and fire safety picture cards. Shepherded the project through multiple stages of revision and trained Johannesburg fire safety educators on using the program.Completed Crestcom Bullet Proof Manager training course consisting of 48 hours of structured learning on management and leadership skills.

Teach “In a Nutshell: Short Stories” course. Guide students in identifying the craft elements used in short form nonfiction and fiction. Coach students on writing assignments and in-class peer critiques. Created a blog for posting students’ finished work to encourage them in their writing.

Anchored the nightly newscast at this regional cable news station and provided news reporting/live shots for the various newscasts.

Covered medical stories on-air and produced daily medical minutes. Scheduled and oversaw news coverage, assigned reporters to stories, generated news contacts.

Co-anchored the Saturday morning newscast and midday newscasts. Presented live, local, breaking news coverage.