Rescue One More is a nonprofit (501c3) focused on bringing safety, justice, and healing to child survivors of sexual abuse in Uganda. Using the Children's Advocacy Centers' approach, Rescue One More brings local leaders in Uganda together to provide survivors of child sexual abuse with physical, emotional, and spiritual support while working to bring an end to sexual violence once and for all.

Providing nonprofits and mission-oriented organizations with a full range of marketing and communications services, including: storytelling and content development, fundraising/campaign planning and management, social marketing, positioning and messaging workshops, public relations, advocacy, and capacity building workshops.

I’m a marketing and communications specialist with 19 years experience working with non-profits and corporate businesses throughout Africa and North America. I’ve recently returned to the U.S. after living and working in Uganda (E. Africa) for seven years (May 2009 – August 2016.)I’m currently working as a Mar/Com consultant for Music for Life, the parent organization of the African Children’s Choir, in Bellingham, WA. I’m available for additional contract and project-based work and can travel as needed. I'm also open to considering full-time employment.My strengths include copy writing, strategic planning, positioning statement and message development, media training, producing short promotional films along with general project management.

Refuge and Hope International (www.refugeandhope.org) is a Kampala, Uganda-based NGO equipping African refugees with educational, professional and leadership development opportunities so they can achieve financial independence, thrive in their host country and eventually return to their countries of origin as leaders empowered to help rebuild their communities. My first challenge here involved developing the organization's messaging and repositioning it as a development-focused entity working to equip refugees to become self-sustainable through educational, professional and leadership programs, as opposed to an aid/relief organization focusing primarily on ESL.Other responsibilities and key contributions included:1) Spearheading end-of-year and summer (World Refugee Day) campaigns and fundraising programs, raising $300,000+ annually.2) Developing new content, layout and design of the Web site, www.refugeandhope.com. (2015)3) Developing monthly e-newsletters for donor base, partners and other key stakeholders.4) Creating bi-annual direct mail newsletters.5) Writing countless student profiles and case studies.6) Writing bi-annual direct mail appeal letters (end-of-year and summer fundraising program held in conjunction with World Refugee Day.)7) Creating toolkits for hosting or implementing “Friend-raiser” events, including: the “African Tea Party;” an obstacle race called “The Great Escape: A Refugee’s Race for Freedom,” designed to reflect the challenges refugees face as they flee their homes in search of safety; and Vacation Bible School (VBS) program.8) Managing all social media.9) Implementing and overseeing Work for Life’s Entrepreneur Training Program.10) Developing numerous short films for fundraising campaigns (http://www.refugeandhope.org/media-center, films from 2015 and 2016.)

Work for Life (www.iworkforlife.com) is a US-based nonprofit organization working to fight poverty in Africa by training people to start and run sustainable businesses through its Entrepreneur Training Program.While with Work for Life, my responsibilities included:1) Launching and managing the African-wide roll out of Work for Life's Entrepreneur Training Program. This included identifying on-boarding location partners (i.e. NGOs, schools, churches and other organizations in Uganda, Kenya and Zambia) interested in offering our program to their constituents.2) Identifying and recruiting new instructors (local entrepreneurs) and overseeing their progress through WFL’s Instructor Training Program and in the classroom.3) Ensuring instructors and location partners were running the Entrepreneur Training Program according to WFL’s requirements and standards.4) Collecting feedback from students, partners and instructors to monitor success and implement program improvements.5) Overseeing local marketing activities: developing case studies, student profile stories, adverts, posters, brochures, etc.6) Developing student profiles and success stories for fundraising/marketing purposes.7) Developing twice-monthly e-newsletters.8) Overseeing social media initiatives.

I spent four years working as a mar/com consultant to African-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs.) Client list includes World Vision Uganda, African Children's Choir, John Snow Inc. (TA-NPI) and Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. I developed and managed an annual advocacy and awards program (the Tumaini Initiative & Awards Program) for World Vision Uganda and a consortium of six other child-focused NGOs. I also produced numerous mini-documentaries on children's rights as well as on the HIV prevention/treatment initiatives of several NGOs throughout Africa. I also conducted a number of communications capacity building workshops (with sessions on strategic planning, positioning statement/message development and media training, Web site improvement, e-newsletter development, advocacy and social media strategies) for NGOs focused on HIV prevention/treatment, hospice and palliative care as well as children's rights.

Responsible for developing comprehensive public relations programs and media campaigns, managing teams and overseeing account activities for IT corporations. Clients ranged from local software start-ups to divisions within Fortune 500 companies.• Managed $50K+/month in budgets.• Specialized in strategic planning, writing and media relations.• Orchestrated corporate and product launch campaigns for numerous clients, including HP (HPshopping.com), Xelus, Telution, Newgistics, Surgient, Layer N Networks (now Britestream) and WhisperWire.

Responsibilities: Managed statewide crisis management, public affairs, media relations and community relations for global Fortune 100 corporations.Developed and managed grass roots campaigns aimed at generating widespread support for clients’ legislative and image-enhancing initiatives. Established strategic alliances and industry coalitions and designed community relations and philanthropic programs to enhance corporate image. Oversaw budgets exceeding $30K/month for clients including Philip Morris, Aetna U.S. Healthcare, and DeVry Institute of Technology. Devised a state-wide grass-roots campaign and crisis management program for Philip Morris in response to Texas’ class action lawsuit against the company; this particular program was adopted nation-wide by Philip Morris and implemented in 47 states (1999-2000.)