Paola Scommegna Email & Phone Number

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Design communication strategies, write and edit publications for educational and research organizations, including:-- Wrote feature articles and edited reports for the private, non-profit Population Reference Bureau (PRB) on national and global trends affecting public health, children and families, and the environment.-- Wrote news releases and developed.

Board President and Chair 2009-2012

Wrote articles, edited publications, managed national media relations for projects and campaigns. Clients included: -- Common Cause Magazine, -- Population Reference Bureau, -- National Council of Churches: Office on Global Education, -- Committee to Rethink U.S. Foreign Aid, -- World Hunger Education Service,-- Lutheran World Relief / Church World.

-- Designed educational campaigns and managed media relations, wrote and edited publications for 12 university departments. -- Designed extension outreach strategies for 5 University Extension program areas; doubled publication sales and expanded media coverage. -- Developed, wrote and edited three regular newsletters; contributed regular feature articles.

-- Edited Population Trends and Public Policy, a series highlighting the policy implication of social trends. Managed national media outreach.-- Designed and edited educational materials for Model UN Program.

-- Shaped and implemented national media strategy for legislative campaigns on world hunger, foreign aid reform, and U.S. poverty. Policy intern, 1980-1982.

Ma, Education; Nonformal/ Educational Communications

Bsj, Journalism, Social Sciences