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• Organize and mobilize New England to support climate change laws and policies through values-based, solutions focused storytelling. Works within the Clean Energy and Climate Change program to connect membership with.
• Developing and executing multi-channel communications strategies to advance CLF’s Clean Energy and Climate Change program
• Creating and implementing multi-channel communications campaigns to mobilize CLF’s online community and support advocacy goals
• Conceptualizing, writing, and editing blogs, feature stories, action alerts, and other content to produce clear, compelling narratives highlighting CLF’s legal, policy, and economic work
• Designing infographics, fact sheets, and graphic assets for print, web, email, and social media campaigns that will help increase engagement and grow our membership
• Producing, filming, and editing short videos about CLF’s work

POCIE is a regional, professional community for BIPOC in the environmental field, bringing together environmental practitioners from all sectors in Massachusetts with the goal of gathering, mentoring, networking, and collaborating. Most importantly, we promote integrating justice, equity, diversity and inclusion into the environmental sector through.

• Mobilized broad audiences towards collective action using values and solutions-focused language that highlighted Mass Audubon's leadership in climate solutions. Developed strategy, branding, and narrative voice for.
• Lead an interdepartmental work group to develop standardized climate change communications best practices statewide.
• Drafted, conducted, analyzed, and implemented membership and audience survey to understand - and then segment - climate sentiment, values, and triggers towards action.
• Developed and lead campaigns to communicate the impacts of climate change, using localized objects of care, strategic framing, and tangible pathways to engagement.
• Increased the visibility and accessibility of organizational climate policy priorities.
• Strategized flagship species across the commonwealth with interdepartmental work group as part of Mass Audubon's Action Agenda.

• Authored and edited articles on contemporary marine science research.

• Primary project: Media and Climate Resilience in Coastal Communities.
• Assessed patterns in multimedia climate coverage
• Analyzed efficacy and impact of coverage elements including: frames, story structure, dominant sentiment, topics, and intended audience effects.
• Reported on conservation, environmental science, and climate change.
• Synthesized available scholarship on climate change and climate change communications.

Boston

• Developed policy strategy for Massachusetts groundfisheries, regional commercial fishing, and port infrastructure.
• Researched, wrote, and created collateral such as reports, policy proposals, and infographics regarding commercial fishing, climate change, and ecosystem-based management.
• Managed photography campaigns.
• Developed digital media and audience engagement strategy.
• Aided content creation for the Division's Seafood Marketing initiative.
• Assisted in and communicated about agency field research such as white shark tagging and water quality testing.

Greater Boston Area

• Inspired audiences to engage with science based-content through media strategy development and content creation.
• Tracked digital media analytics and monitored and developed audience engagement.
• Diversified audience base by launching new platforms for communications and distribution opportunities.
• Authored pieces on relevant science news.

Greater Boston Area

• Communicated marine science issues and collective-action solutions to a global audience.
• Developed communications and educational material about marine science, marine ecology, and climate change
• Supervised and trained volunteers, interns, and teen interns.

Greater Boston Area

• Drafted and executed organizational press releases and conducted outreach to media.
• Created and organized marketing collateral (blogs posts and press clips) and managed social media pages (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn).
• Tracked local policy development and released comments, action alerts, and newsletters accordingly.
• Developed and maintained relationships with policy makers and regional youth coalitions.

• Coordinated outreach (digital and in-person) for workshops, open houses, and off-campus recruitment for local, national, and international prospective student programs.
• Helped hire, train, and supervise student ambassadors and peer advisors.

• Lab: Social Psychology, Stigma, Health, and Intersectionality
• Assisted primary investigator in quantitative and qualitative data analyses.
• Conducted secondary analysis on the impact gender identity has on health outcomes through an associated cultural meaning-making framework.

Master Of Science - Ms

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.) Summa Cum Laude