Nicole Blanton Email & Phone Number

• Developing national communications campaign strategies to elevate Healthier Generation’s brand, advance and scale programmatic goals, and strengthen funder relationships with partners such as Merck & Co., CVS Health.
• Creating and executing campaigns and narratives that are designed to reach and engage a wide variety of audiences and historically marginalized communities
• Building media relationships across family, parenting, education outlets with an emphasis on BIPOC communities
• Supporting national and local media relations and thought leadership efforts, including promotion strategy, writing and editing
• Serving as lead in drafting written communications materials that reflect culturally relevant audience insights and inclusive communications

Houston, Texas, United States

• Oversees, edits, and contributes to the Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network, which includes Momentum, Policywise, Progress Notes, and The Stitch
• Maintains and curates the College-wide blog editorial schedule
• Collaborates with constituencies and departments throughout the College to assist with website development
• Edits public-facing web content to ensure institutional standards and meet departmental goals
• Manages the College's intranet and internal websites
• Collaborates with the College's media relations and marketing teams to identify and curate content for the College-wide blog

Houston, Texas Area

• Managing, editing and contributing to the Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network
• Maintaining the College-wide blog and social media editorial schedule to plan content accordingly
• Developing, writing and refining departmental and healthcare web content
• Managing internal and external web pages
• Collaborating with the College's media relations and marketing teams to identify and curate social media and content for the College-wide blog
• Working with communications leadership to identify priorities for promoting content externally

Houston, Texas Area

• Coordinating event plans and advising student staff
• Managing communications plans
• Assisting with development of new campus sustainability plan
• Speaking at select campus presentations and speech commitments
• Spearheading and managing the UH sustainability website
• Tracking communication and outreach statistics

• Managing, writing and editing the sustainability blog
• Compiling, coding and editing the monthly sustainability newsletter
• Sending out email marketing blasts, building our distribution lists and assisting with event coordination
• Speaking to campus and community members about sustainability
• Managing the UH Office of Sustainability’s social media accounts, including: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube

Houston, Texas Area

• Coordinated ABC-13 community events such as forums, the ABC-13 Blood Drive, the ABC-13 E-Cycling drive and the Your Future Starts Now Drive
• Booked show guests for four ABC-13 community affairs TV programs: Crossroads, Viva Houston, CityView, and Visions
• Recorded video teasers for community affairs programming and promoted via ABC-13 social media accounts
• Managed social media for community TV shows
• Conceptualized and creatied content for ABC-13 community affairs social media campaigns; specifically, Black History Month, the ABC-13 Blood Drive and the ABC-13 E-Cycling Drive

• Recorded audio at local events for news stories
• Wrote and edited news scripts for on-air production
• Produced news stories that were published on HoustonPublicMedia.org

Houston, Texas

Participated in the University of Houston's student news magazine, Video Workshop. Conducted on-camera interviews with high profile figures such as KPRC anchor Dominique Sachse and retired astronaut Dr. Bonnie Dunbar. Wrote scripts for on-air pieces and contributed to production meetings. Hosted the final show of the season.

Houston, Texas

Contributed to the print and online editions of STRYVE Magazine, a publication focused on the betterment of high school students and young adults. Was heavily involved in the development and implementation of STRYVE’s social media platform.