Michael Light Email and Phone Number

• Managed Rippleworks’ website, including style, copy writing, page layout, digital assets, and maintenance. • Managed and created all content across Rippleworks’ social media platforms, including copy and visual designs for Twitter, LinkedIn, and email. • Managed Rippleworks’ hiring, social media, and website analytics; built dashboards and analyzed data using R.• Lead weekly all-staff meetings.

• Managed and executed external-facing creative processes (writing, graphic design, photography) for fundraising and marketing projects, including Annual Reports, Quarterly Reports, Annual Fundraising Campaigns, Social Media Campaigns, Concept Notes, Brochures, Decks, and Fact Sheets• Managed creative workloads for impact reporting, and produced deliverables for funders including the World Bank, the Skoll Foundation, Cisco, USAID, the Mulago Foundation, KFW Development Bank, and the United Nations’ World Food Program• Managed Digital Asset organization of photos, videos, and design templates• Managed relationships with internal and external writers, photographers, program managers, and monitoring and evaluations team members to collect and organize content and information (data, photos, videos, impact stories) captured in myAgro’s field operations around the world• Wrote and researched new funding proposals• Managed and executed the organization’s 2019 Annual Campaign, raising $275,000 from individual donations

• Managed the foundation of the organization’s first pilot program in East Africa serving rural, smallholder farmers in southern Tanzania with financial and agricultural products to increase crop yields• Led the pilot’s sunflower seed program to serve 500+ farmers with quality inputs and training, directly managing an office staff of seven, indirectly managing a field staff of 10, designing program activities to account for efficiency and risk• Designing and managing a financial database and first of its kind mobile money payment system used to collect and track customer payment, identify fraud, and disburse refunds• Designing field marketing materials, agricultural training modules, and KPI collection systems to measure customer mobilization data and field staff performance• Other duties included communications, hiring, agricultural research and development, staff development, survey design and implementation, budgeting, purchasing and logistics, and management of myAgro’s in-field partnerships with local NGOs including the Aga Khan Foundation• Reported directly to myAgro’s CEO to facilitate information and KPI sharing with the organization’s geographically-distributed staff

• Reporting to the Director of Impact, wrote content published for external audiences on topics including Kiva's rural and agricultural financing partners

• Assigned, edited, and wrote stories; formatted copy; and corresponded with an international group of freelance writers to publish daily content at the world’s widest-read coffee publication• Reported on stories at the intersection of coffee, economic development, and environmental sustainability• Posted and monitored social media content

• Managed projects for the Kiva Labs Innovation Conference (KLIC) in cooperation with the MasterCard Foundation’s Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab (RAF), including the development of presentations on innovation in the rural agricultural finance sector• Developed framing and materials for KLIC’s keynote presentation by Kiva’s president• Created original content communicating organizational impact for an audience of 1M+ followers on website and social media, as well as for RAF’s website and social media• Managed marketing campaign strategy and execution for Direct to Social Enterprise loans to companies in the rural agricultural financing sector, including with original feature and copy writing for internal and external stakeholders, email coordination, and social media coordination• Managed Kiva’s blogs, overseeing an editorial calendar to produce 1,000+ words of content per-week• Managed impact communications and marketing projects on cross-organizational teams• Wrote internal communications on organizational strategy for multiple C-level leads, including the president and CEO• Wrote impact and development copy on multiple kiva.org landing pages

• Led a team of policy and energy analysts in the publication of all organizational communications on themes of energy access and environmental preservation, receiving coverage from major global media outlets including the New York Times and Washington Post • Underwrote communications for an international group of scientists, conservationists, and energy experts including James Hansen (Director of the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions at Columbia University’s Earth Institute), Steven Pinker (Harvard University’s Johnstone Professor of Psychology), and Stewart Brand (Whole Earth Catalog Founder)• Developed, wrote, and edited grants and development copy for gift amounts up to $500,000

• Produced reporting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning organization, developing an original public interest story about global supply chain transparency and labor conditions in the Southeast Asian manufacturing sector• Conducted interviews with members of civil society in countries across Asia, Europe, and the Americas, analyzed supply chain data with ImportGenius, wrote copy as the story developed into a large investigative project

• Edited 50+ news stories per-week primarily written by Cambodian journalists at a daily English-language newspaper in Cambodia’s capital• Wrote spot news, proofread, and laid-out the paper in InDesign and Photoshop • Contributed writing to a weekly long-form supplement

• Wrote copy, fact checked articles, copy edited marketing materials for book projects, and transcribed content for the Believer magazine.• Took an active role in transcription and editorial production with the organization’s fellow oral history not-for-profit Voice of Witness.

• Assisted in the editorial production of the Lucky Peach quarterly magazine, the Lucky Peach daily website, and various book projects.• Wrote features and recipes, fact checked articles, proofread copy, transcribed interviews, updated the Lucky Peach CMS, and wrote research for books.