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New York, NY, US

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

• Architect of this Nigerian women's NGO's Global Communications strategy, to align with TH's mission of advancing digital and financial inclusion for women and girls in rural African communities.
• Elevates TH's Media Relations to enhance its visibility on international platforms, thereby extending its influence and reach.
• Cultivates the TH staff's storytelling excellence to ensure that their communications are compelling, impactful, and grounded in authenticity.
• Provides expert advice on the integration of modern communication technologies and digital strategies to optimize TH's engagement across various channels.
• Conducts workshops and seminars to mentor and uplift the TH communication team’s capabilities in handling complex narratives and global issues.
• Guided the team to create the NGO's evidence-driven "Stories of Impact" page.

New York, United States

*Advise this NGO's Founder and team on how to persuasively prove the organization's true on-the-ground impact, in Ghana and elsewhere - with evidence-driven content.*Also serving as Writing Coach, Strategic Storyteller and Content Creator.

Portland, Oregon, United States

*Advise the Founder & CEO, Britta Cabanos, on how to prove her organization's impact on others.*Developed the curriculum - and will lead - a unique workshop for the CFDA: "Prove Your Impact! A Content-Creation Workshop for Conscious Fashion Brands – to Avoid the Greenwashing Accusation"

New York, United States

• This boutique Global Communications Consultancy applies its Founder's unique hybrid of strategies, skills and storytelling styles, drawn from both International Journalism and Global Communications - and known.
• Strategic Communications, Corporate Communications, Crisis Comms, Public Affairs
• Cross-Cultural Communications: How to Impact a Smart-but-Skeptical Foreign Audience
• Marketing, Branding, Messaging, Content Creation, Impact Stories, CEO Storytelling, etc.
• Counseling C-Suite Execs: Broadcast, Print, Digital Media Interviews, Talking-Points, etc.
• Media Relations, Story Pitching & Media-Coverage Analysis (Both American & Foreign)

Nakuru, Kenya

I provide both Strategic and Executive Communications to Siamanda Chege, the Founder & CEO of this unique Social Enterprise in Africa, which employs some 300 Kenyan women - many of whom are HIV widows. A portion of revenue is then directed to The Chege Village, an orphanage that Chege founded in her Kenyan hometown, Nakuru. Specifically, I advise Chege on.

New York, United States

*Advise the Founder & CEO, the singer/songwriter, Emily Cavanagh, with how to prove the impact that this music-therapy NGO has had on hospice patients and their families.*Create evidence-driven content - in the form of strategic-storytelling videos - to prove ASFY's impact.

Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Vientiane, Laos

Writing OpEds, Speeches, major reports and Press Releases for this not-for-profit, intergovernmental organization focused on protecting the mighty Mekong River. This Content Creation is actually a hybrid of Strategic Communications and Cross-Cultural Communications, aimed to resonate and raise awareness among foreign audiences, about the challenges faced.

Geneva, Switzerland

Communications Planning, Strategic Communications, Media Relations, Executive Writing, Brand Building

New York, United States

*Business development, advising Chinese companies that are expanding into the U.S. and other Western markets, on how to impact their target-audience most persuasively.*Consulting on: Strategic Communications, Corporate Communications, Brand Building, Core Messaging, Media Relations, Content Creation, CEO Storytelling, Staff Training, etc.

New York City Metropolitan Area

*Amid COVID pandemic, I volunteered for this NGO, focusing on immigrant healthcare.*Strategized with CEO & trained volunteers in how to illuminate “healthcare insecurity” - of documented & undocumented immigrants - via humanized, evidence-based storytelling.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

During Spring 2021 semester taught:*News Reporting 1 & 2*Journalism, Social Media & You*Social Media Theory & Practice*Also served as Faculty Advisor to the LIU student newspaper, Seawanhaka.

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

• For this controversial Chinese telecoms giant, worked remotely amid COVID, from US.
• Analyzed/critiqued all 2020 External Communication products (video, article, social media).
• Recommended how to improve effectiveness of those, plus book, documentary projects.
• Shared insights into the psyche of Western media - and how to pitch them stories effectively.
• Shared insights into China’s foreign audience - and how to communicate with them persuasively.

Beijing, China

Served as News Editor, Scriptwriter and Foreign-Media Analyst for "The Point with Liu Xin" - a top opinion show on the China Global Television Network. This nightly, 30-minute program explores world events from a Beijing perspective. (However, the COVID pandemic forced me to resign and flee back to New York.)

As a freelance Foreign Correspondent, I've parachuted into and reported from 30 countries over the past 27 years – mostly in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Southern Africa – for publications like Foreign Policy magazine; French news agency AFP; Christian Science Monitor; Harvard’s Nieman Reports; and South Africa’s Mail & Guardian. Previously based in.

Beijing City, China

• In Beijing’s oldest Journalism school, teaching in the Graduate program for International Journalism and Communications.
• Have developed my own curriculum to teach courses in Environmental Storytelling, International Reporting and Feature Writing - as well as an undergrad course in "English Writing & Speech."
• Created a course Webzine as a platform and showcase for my students and their polished, published stories: https://lettersfrombeijing2017.wordpress.com.
• Applying my style of "Cautious Communications" to journalism, in order to effectively "open a window" onto fast-changing China - and many of the challenges it faces.

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

In this booming Chinese metropolis, I coach some of the city's best and brightest teens through the essay-writing portion of their application to top American universities.

Beijing City, China

At the Mars Corporation's Global Food Safety Center in Beijing, my part-time consultancy focused on training and coaching Chinese members of the Communications team to produce a range of internal and external written-communications. The aim was to persuasively impact our foreign audience through what I call "message-driven, evidence-based, humanized.

Beijing City, China

I'm a frequent contributor to this unique Master's program in International Multimedia Journalism, hosted by BFSU and led by the University of Bolton.

Shanghai Suburb, China

In the SISU Master's program in International Journalism, led 32 grad students through my short, intensive "Foreign Reporting from Shanghai" course. Created a course Webzine, as a platform and showcase for all the stories that the students produced and polished: https://lettersfromshanghai2017.wordpress.com.

Beijing City, China

*In one of the world’s worst-polluted countries – and its greatest emitter of greenhouse gases – I led my own Communications-and-Advocacy-through-Storytelling project, The Chinese Champions of Environmental Protection.*Trained Chinese environmental activists in how to write and share their own story of awakening and inspiration, as they began to make a.

Prague

Train international participants through the pound-the-pavement reporting project of TOL's Foreign Correspondent Training Course. Have also trained Roma-minority journalists in Eastern Europe.

Hong Kong

Within HKBU's renowned International Journalism program, I teach the short, intensive course I created: "Foreign Reporting from Hong Kong." (Will return in February 2016.)

Beijing City, China

Providing ILO staff in Beijing with writing-skills and media training, serving as Editor-in-Chief of the ILO-Beijing newsletter, and delivering other written-communications products to help raise awareness of ILO efforts to promote "Decent Work" in the world's second-largest economy.

Lesotho

In a country that suffers the world's second-highest rate of HIV infection, produced a storytelling project that chronicled - through stories and photos - MSH's impact on Lesotho's HIV Orphans and Vulnerable Children.

Based In Budapest, Hungary; Bratislava, Slovakia; Maseru, Lesotho; New York, NY

Foreign correspondent, reporting from 30 countries, for Foreign Policy, Agence France-Presse, Christian Science Monitor, Global Post, South Africa's Mail & Guardian, and many others.

Southern Africa/Central Europe

Produce "Postcards" that open a window onto daily life, first while I was based in Central Europe, then in Southern Africa.

Lesotho

Soon after a coup-attempt in August 2014 rocked this tiny African kingdom, I became the lone Western correspondent living in-country to report on the instability that followed - for the AFP, and many others.

Slovakia

Formerly its Budapest-based correspondent, then at the United Nations, and back to Central Europe, in Bratislava.

Lesotho

Designed and led an awareness-raising, storytelling training for Lesotho journalists on Maternal-Child Health.

Lesotho

Designed and led a training for Lesotho journalists on Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision - the most controversial, thus most sensitive, of HIV-prevention methods.

Taught Journalism

Conflict and Security

George Polk Journalist-in-Residence, Faculty Advisor to the Student Newspaper, Journalism Course Instructor

Master'S Of Science, International Affairs

Concentration in "Conflict and Security"

Bachelor Of Journalism, Print Journalism

Activities and Societies: Zeta Beta Tau FraternityConcentration in "Magazine Journalism"