PrincipalMultiple leadership positions: Principal, Senior Leadership Team; Principal, Domestic Practice; Director, $3 million health and social policy portfolio• Led company strategy and staff development as a member of the Domestic Practice Leadership Team• Provided strategy to major foundations and NGOs, leading social change campaigns for major clients including W.K. Kellogg Foundation, National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research, Partnership to End Homelessness in Washington, D.C., Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and National Indian Health Board• Worked across stakeholders (commissions, advisory groups) to reach consensus, create value frames, message decks and translate research/complex information into accessible language and visuals• Conducted ongoing media training with foundation presidents, policymakers, researchers, nonprofits and advocatesHIGHLIGHTS:* Led the national campaign for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Dental Therapy Initiative to change how dental care is delivered in the U.S. The movement to authorize new dental providers has grown from one state in 2003 to seven in 2018 with more states and tribes now seeking to do the same. * With the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America, coined the phrase where you live learn work and play to help people see that social and economic factors can have a greater impact on health than access to a doctor. The campaign changed how communities, health care professionals and others approach health, recognizing that there is more to health than health care. * Worked with local teens to raise their voices against gun violence just weeks after the Parkland, FL shootings. Helped orchestrate a highly-covered anti-gun violence event in Washington, D.C. that included a panel of House and Senate leaders, state officials, media, students and activists. Every local television station covered it and national networks interviewed the students protesting the next day.

• Created and executed a communications strategy to raise the visibility of the Center's flagship initiatives and establish the Center as an important player in the health policy arena• Grew the organization's voice and translated research into language accessible to policymakers

• Led communications for the Partnership for Long-Term Care (funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) national program office and state pilot projects• Implemented the core communication strategy for the overall project, creating national messages and stories that were amplified by influencers at the national level

• Daily news reporter at the Pulitzer-prize winning Hartford Courant • Capped 10-year reporting career that included Foster's Daily Democrat, Manchester Journal Inquirer