Phillip Yates Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO, US

Boulder, Colo.

• Delivered organizational value by project management guidance and services that have helped the city successfully complete hundreds projects and achieve its community engagement and public policy goals.
• Managed communications strategies for City of Boulder Open Space & Mountain Parks (OSMP) – which receives more visits than most National Parks and is one of the largest city park systems in the United States.
• Leveraged agile project management and risk assessment techniques to help the City of Boulder simplify complexity, navigate uncertainty and implement successful stakeholder engagement projects.
• Helped manage the city’s American Indian Tribal Nation Engagement program and organized tribal consultations that have helped the city reestablish relationships with Tribal Nations.
• Led City-Tribal Nation meetings and co-created a planned ethnographic-education report with Tribal Representatives that will help the city develop future interpretive materials with Tribal Nations.
• Created a land acknowledgment, renamed a city park, helped develop a city-Tribal Nation agreement and managed education and interpretative projects with guidance and support from Tribal Representatives.

Boulder, Colo.

• Demonstrated portfolio and project management leadership in building Open Space and Mountain Parks' integrated public relations and content marketing program, which now produces millions of digital impressions each year.
• Promoted to a senior-level position after generating significant engagement for long-term outdoor recreation and land conservation management plans that City Council and Open Space Board of Trustees members approved.

Boulder, Colo.

• Designed and implemented communication campaigns and corporate responsibility projects that garnered clients highly positive media coverage and helped influence federal and state policy decision-making.
• Landed highly positive, front-page stories in national, state and local media outlets by developing and implementing data-driven corporate responsibility media strategies.
• Earned the nonprofit public relations firm a $225,000 data storytelling grant from a large American foundation.

Boulder, Colo.

Glenwood Springs, Colo.

• Generated exclusive energy and environmental stories – produced through in-depth beat reporting – that the Associated Press distributed across Colorado and the United States.
• Won a deadline journalism award for an interview with then Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and wrote news stories that helped to frame the debate over drilling in Colorado.

Amarillo, Texas Area

• Covered breaking news, crime, courts and business in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
• Investigated and wrote exclusive stories that the Associated Press distributed across the United States.
• Interviewed people enduring significant emotional trauma with sensitivity and compassion.
• Won several deadline journalism awards for coverage of historic Texas wildfires.

Greeley, Colo.

• Covered the night-cop beat on Friday and Saturday, and wrote dozens of stories for the daily newspaper.

Boulder, Colo.

• Wrote dozens of stories for the feature and news sections of the community newspaper.

Certificate, Corporate Social Responsibility

Certificate, Public Sector Leadership

Certificate, Social Impact Measurement

Certificate, Sustainable Business Strategies

Certificate, Brand Management

Certificate, Marketing Strategy

Bachelor Of Science, Journalism - News Editorial

Bachelor Of Arts, Modern European History

International Exchange Program, Swedish And European History