Matthew Charles Davis Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

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New York, New York, United States

Sometimes, two minds are better than one! Ellen Mendlow and I create top-class editorial content for a variety of clients who are making the world a better place.

New York, United States

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Greater New York City Area

• Millions of New Yorkers face overwhelming obstacles shaped by poverty, immigration status, race, neighborhood pollution, and disabilities. The need has never been greater to protect the dignity and civil rights of.
• Delivered a comprehensive communications plan for the organization across a host of issue-specific and broader brand campaigns.
• Ran content and outreach, online, and social media strategy, including the end-to-end process for building a new website with digital organizing capacity.
• Trained and supported staff to make complex data and legal concepts accessible and engaging.

Oakland, California

• Delivered office’s first communications strategy in partnership with management, placing emphasis on raising up the voices of marginalized communities who stood to benefit from our work.
• Brought in dedicated grant funding to back the strategy.
• Achieved significant press coverage in local, national and international media.
• Supported passage of landmark legislation and ballot measures forcing transparency upon the oil, gas, and chemical industries, creating a safe and affordable drinking water fund for the million Californians lacking.
• Deepened member engagement with strategic email, social media and newsletter communications.
• Successfully lobbied for the hiring of the office's first racial justice organizer as part of ongoing equity efforts across the organization.

London, United Kingdom

• Doubled the organization’s news coverage in the UK, broke into Europe and the US.
• Ran crisis communications when the organization was accused of “green-washing”, after winning climate shareholder resolutions at BP and Shell.
• Created an “Unleash Your Pension Power” training program to deepen member engagement with pension funds on environmental, social and governance risk issues.
• Led a team of five staff, stopping high staff turnover.

Shoreditch

• Transitioned from journalism to communications at a small creative agency.
• Increased billing by 65% in 18 months, landing new business with the British Broadcasting Corporation, National Health Service, Honda, Allianz Global Investors and Greenpeace.
• Won a 2014 IVCA award for “best digital communication” for a website demystifying the admissions process to a mental health center for teenagers.

Greater New Orleans Area

• Worked in a successful team on Open Society Foundation and Knight Foundation-funded investigative journalism.
• Won first prize for investigative journalism from the Press Club of New Orleans for a story uncovering moonlighting corruption in the sheriff's department, and another prize from The National Council on Crime and.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Covered politics and criminal justice.
• Led the award-winning news team, setting direction and editing articles from freelancers, opinion leaders and junior reporters.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Reported investment news stories, from exposing Ponzi schemes to the impact of terrorism on the investment industry to the merits of socially responsible investing.
• Wrote a weekly column and features.
• Worked for a great team of deeply experienced news editors and sub editors, alongside enthusiastic fellow reporters in a dynamic hard news environment.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Mark is a visual storytelling genius.
• I still assist him, periodically, whenever I'm in England, and our schedules coincide.
• I learned a great deal about talking to sources, client management, and just the joy of working life from working alongside him.

London, England, United Kingdom

My first job out of college was a graduate trainee program at Barclays. My favorite part of the job was being called a "naive, Guardian-reading lefty" by a colleague who thought my focus on delivering a diversity report for the risk management division in business banking was a waste of time. It probably was, to be fair, because most of the people I.

London, England, United Kingdom

Initially I worked for a firm called Seattle Coffee Company, which Starbucks bought. I started as a barista then got a job in the training department, training more than 20 baristas a week in the basement of our shop at 137 Victoria Street in Central London. They were drawn from all over the world and we covered everything from coffee tasting to handling.

English Literature, First (Highest Honors Available).

Postgraduate Diploma, Periodical Journalism, Distinction.

Diploma, Food Writing

200-Hour Teacher Training Certificate, Yoga Teacher Training/Yoga Therapy

I enjoy serving the community by teaching yoga, particularly to those impacted by trauma. More at Mattdavisyoga.com