As a member of the leadership team, I am helping to build the largest collaborative newsroom in America. Open Campus is dedicated to transforming the information that communities get about higher education and career success, and my role is to make that work sustainable.I joined Open Campus as the third employee in September of 2021, and have built a revenue team that generates more than $3 million a year to support community news.I also lead the operations staff and its work on human resources, culture-building, financials and budgeting.

Chalkbeat is committed to covering one of America’s most important stories: the effort to improve schools for all children, especially those who have historically lacked access to a quality education.With a budget of nearly $12 million and growing (a 74 percent increase in revenue over three years), Chalkbeat is committed to building its network of strong, local-first education news sites. I am proud to lead the team that brings in the money to power this innovation.

As Executive Director, I oversaw all aspects of editorial, fundraising, operations and marketing for the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, a 27-year-old nonprofit news organization. The Notebook's mission was to not only report the news about education in Philadelphia, but to spur action to improve public education in one of the nation's poorest cities. It is now part of the Chalkbeat network of education news sites.Duties included:• Editing, writing and publishing production using InDesign, InCopy and Microsoft Office products, including PowerPoint.• . Writing grants and leading fundraising strategy that led to the organization's most successful year-end campaigns for two years in a row.• Supervising graphic design staff to improve the look and readability of all print and digital products.• Building and executing brand and content marketing strategy, including social media.• Leading website design and web content strategy using Wordpress and other publishing software.• Creating all marketing materials for sales staff.• Serving as ambassador for the organization with community groups, delivering presentations and serving on panels.• Supervising sales staff and setting revenue goals.

Prosperoware delivers innovative technology that connects the practice and business of professional services. I led communications and marketing initiatives that supported this growing company’s corporate strategic messages and sales efforts.• Develop and execute PR plans and collateral (including writing press releases, video scripts, PowerPoint and Slideshare presentations)• Devise and deliver strategic communications to clients and partners• Act as producer on video interviews and advertisements• Assign and supervise work of creative vendors, including design and video production• Perform all editorial tasks for the company, including writing, editing and production• Build and execute brand and content marketing strategy • Oversee marketing team to support all initiatives, including trade shows, email blasts and webinars• Supervise website design and lead web content strategy• Create and deploy company's first marketing nurture campaigns to drive sales and revenue• Design and implement marketing workflows to ensure that activities are aligned with company goals and priorities.• Implement strategic internal communications plan for office-based and remote workforce employees.

hibu (formerly Yell Group), King of Prussia, PABased out of the UK, hibu is a global provider of telephone directories, small business websites, direct-mail marketing and my project, community magazines. As No. 2 leader of a startup initiative for hibu to launch community magazines across the U.S. and the UK, I oversee all editorial operations to produce more than 650 magazines every month for a combined circulation of 3.4 million, collaborate on sales initiatives bringing in $40 million in revenue in the first 12 months, work on the development of technology, set project goals and quality standards, and manage more than 100 employees. • Refine the mission and execute the plan to produce more than 600 monthly magazines in 14 months.• Devise and deliver strategic internal communications plan for office-based and remote workforce of 120 employees in two countries.• Guide the project’s community engagement strategy, which has garnered more than 84,000 community-submitted articles and more than 196,000 photos in the last 12 months.• Create and present training to editorial staffs across the country and in the UK via webinars and written communications for print and digital. • Lead sales training online and in person and write and oversee design of online and print media kits.

As chief of operations for all of the Stowe Reporter LLC publications and websites (Stowe Reporter, Waterbury Record, Stowe Guide and Magazine, Stowe and Green Mountain Weddings and numerous specialty products, StoweToday.com, stowereporter.com, waterburyrecord.com), oversee all aspects of editorial, internet, production, advertising, business office and circulation for $1.9 million company.• Led the company to its highest-grossing revenue years in 2007, 2010 and 2011, increased company revenue 50 percent in six years.• Created and launched the Waterbury Record, a new weekly newspaper, in January 2007; four websites; a glossy magazine; a daily deals program and a digital app.• Webmaster/ social media director for all products.• Served as media contact/spokeswoman for the company and for the Vermont Press Association and New England Society of Newspaper Editors. • Won 2011 General Excellence Award from the New England Newspaper and Press Association, and won General Excellence Award among all weeklies in 2011 Vermont Press Association competition.• Perform editorial tasks including editing, writing, newspaper production.• Train government officials on Vermont’s open records and open meetings laws with the Vermont League of Cities and Towns and the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office.

As chief editorial decision maker for the Times Argus, fostered dramatic increases in staff morale and editorial excellence, and raised the profile of the daily newspaper in the community and the state.• Managed a staff of 20 journalists, photographers, editors and page designers on a 12,000-circulation morning daily.• Led team that created, designed and launched a new Central Vermont business monthly, Strictly Business.• Oversaw the transition of the newspaper to a morning publishing cycle.• Served as interim editor of the sister paper, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rutland Herald, for nearly a year until new editor was hired.

Managing editor 1998-2003• Managed 50 people, including the Howard County editorial staff; the graphics and page design team for the entire 14-paper chain; and Columbia and Howard County magazines and special sections staff.• Raised the level of journalism, resulting in the Howard County Times being named “Newspaper of the Year” by the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association three years in a row.• Reduced turnover.• Served as editorial liaison between newspapers and our parent company, The Baltimore Sun.• Oversaw the budgets for four departments.• Graduated from Times Mirror Co.’s Leadership in Management Training program.

Taught newswriting and investigative journalism to undergraduate students.

Covered police and courts in Carroll County, with an emphasis on domestic violence, sexual violence and child abuse issues.