Martha Waggoner Email & Phone Number

• Public representative for The News Guild, a 20,000-member union
• Leader/public speaker for biennial sector conferences
• Collective bargaining committee member; revise bargaining goal guidelines
• Non-staff leader, #right2report project, to defend the 1st Amendment and journalist rights Received all money requested plus an extension when bargaining continued past deadline.

Raleigh, NC, United States

• Manage seven communications professionals, including staff and contractors.
• Plan and execute communications events, including news conferences, town halls and programs viewed by thousands of people.
• Work with leadership team and coordinating committees in 45 states
• Oversee all areas of communications, including social media, news releases and promotion of Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, the Poor People’s Campaign and Repairers of the Breach in the media. Manage media coverage of.

• Member of AP's national education beat team
• General coverage specialties include poverty, civil and voting rights
• Story proposal, research, including solo and supported photo and video coverage
• Customer service for AP members regarding stories, photo and video contentCovered judicial problems regarding evidence of innocence from 2016 to 2017. Results included a 2017 change in State Bar rules through stories.

• Lead Executive Committee and Representative Assembly and plan those meetings
• Negotiate union contracts, member grievances and benefits for about 1,400 AP staffers
• Create content and update stakeholders using traditional and social media
• Manage staff, budgets, vendors and oversee contractsIncreased Facebook reach by 361 percent with engagement increase of 444 percent.

Graduate Of Harvard Trade Union Program, Harvard Trade Union Program

Ba, Journalism

Activities and Societies: Daily Tar Heel