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United States

Chicago, IL

• Protect, maintain, and promote the YMCA brand.
• Manage proactive and reactive media relations – source and draft press releases, pitch stories, maintain media relationships.
• Crisis communications - advise the senior leadership team on external and internal communications strategies; create communication plans; draft audience-specific materials including talking points and letters/emails to.
• Collaborate closely with marketing, operations, development, and government relations colleagues on initiatives to retain memberships, drive revenue, fundraise, and advocate for policy changes.

Chicago, IL

Develop, execute and manage the foundation's communications strategy and messaging to establish brand identity; raise the profile of the foundation and its programs across key stakeholders through media relations, blogging, social media, website, conferences, newsletters, awards etc.

Counsel clients on public relations, communications and marketing strategy; draft and edit marketing copy including annual reports, website content; develop social media strategy plan.Clients include Navy Pier, Inc., and La Grange School District 102

Chicago, IL

IHDA is a self supporting quasi-governmental agency that finances the creation and preservation of affordable housing for people of low and moderate means.Assistant Director (2012 - 2017)Co-led, managed, and executed all aspects of the marketing and communications department including:- Strategic management, development and branding of programs.

Chicago, IL

CMAA is a community-based social services agency providing immigrant and low-income residents with crucial housing, health care, job placement, senior and after school youth programs.- Wrote grant proposals- Organized and managed fundraisers- Developed and wrote press releases, newsletters and annual reports

Shanghai, China

- Copyedited news scripts and advised on story development for daily “Shanghai Noon” and “News at Ten” news casts- Conducted weekly workshops on international journalism- Managed and submitted the news team’s regular contributions to CNN’s World Report - Anchored “News at Ten” news cast

Shanghai, China

- Customer Relationship Management (CRM); Primary accounts: Anheuser Busch, Air Canada, Praxair- Wrote press kit materials, planned events, branding, key message creation, English language copyediting lead, international media coordinator

Hong Kong

- Gathered news; conducted interviews; wrote news reports; edited news footage; produced news packages; dubbed voice recordings- Led, managed and directed camera crew during foreign assignments; filed live reports including covering Hong Kong’s handover from British rule back to China in 1997- Anchored main news and late news.

Hong Kong

- Generated news stories; conducted interviews; wrote news reports.