Sarah Graddy Email & Phone Number

Durham, NC, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Develop and implement national communications strategies for high-profile watchdog environmental organization focused on toxic chemicals and public health.
• Write news releases, reporter memos, ed board memos, expert quotes, and blogs
• Regularly garner coverage in major national, Beltway, and local print, and radio outlets, as well as numerous local outlets
• Placements include CBS News' 60 Minutes, NBC News, ABC News, NPR's Morning Edition, APM's Marketplace, Harvest Public Media, AP, Reuters, Bloomberg, McClatchy, Scripps, TheNew York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall.
• Manage media outreach, relationships, and response on tap water, agriculture, climate, food, and pesticides
• Pitch reporters stories, reports, expert quotes, and background conversations

Edit book manuscripts, theses and dissertations, reports, and papers for peer-reviewed publications. Topics include community development, linguistics, finance, dance, computer science, psychiatry, education, and architecture. Write copy for websites and brochures. Past clients include an educational publishing company, graduate students, university.

Washington, DC, US

• Developed and implemented national communications strategies for nonprofit conservation advocacy organization.
• Managed media outreach, reporter relationships, and rapid response around energy and climate issues
• Garnered coverage of organization and its agenda on NPR's Marketplace and in stories picked up by AP, Reuters, and Bloomberg newswires, as well as in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Vice Motherboard.
• Led digital strategy for elevating the connection between public lands, energy development, and climate change
• Crafted editorial board pitches and led editorial board meetings to gain public support for environmental issues
• Created a variety of messaging and outreach materials including op-eds, letters to the editor, press releases, fact sheets, and reporter memos

Washington, DC, US

• Generated and implemented national communications strategies for federal ocean exploration program.
• Managed media relations, garnering consistent, high-profile national and international coverage of program
• Pickups included NBC Nightly News, CNN, PBS NewsHour, Scientific American, Quartz, Grist, Mashable, Discovery News, and Vice Motherboard, et al.
• Created media outreach strategy for office and its expeditions; implemented systematic tracking of media contacts and story placement
• Coordinated communications planning and outreach around NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer expeditions; external expeditions funded by the program; and program annual federal funding opportunity
• Liaised with NOAA research office and NOAA central communications

Took some time off to fulfill a lifelong dream of exploring and SCUBA diving in Southeast Asia and Oceania.

Washington, DC, US

• Generated and implemented national communications strategies for a $4-billion federal agency.
• Coordinated social media content, strategy, policy, and training
• Managed national Twitter account for its first two years and built audience from scratch
• Created one of the first U.S. government Tumblr accounts and built a dedicated audience
• Trained 100+ peers and managers in social media communications and strategy; trained and mentored new employees and interns
• Wrote, edited, and project-managed external and internal communications, including national publications and a multi-state photo shoot

• Wrote and edited statewide, research-based materials about gardening and agriculture.
• Wrote award-winning public-radio show Gardening in a Minute for its first three years and created related marketing materials; managed expert review of scripts by subject-matter experts
• Wrote and edited web content, press releases, and e-newsletter
• Wrote and edited statewide gardening manual funded by Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection
• Collaborated on communications plans and conference sessions
• Served as member of three regional and statewide working groups

Helped get half-cent sales tax passed, during a recession, to extend funding for county land conservation program. Wrote and coordinated Web content and booklet. Mobilized college-student constituency to campaign and vote for program funding.

• Coordinated communications for new Florida Cooperative Extension statewide website.
• Wrote all content for site and helped create information architecture
• Coordinated marketing campaign—statewide, award-winning, multimedia
• Helped organize and run meetings with groups of faculty to get buy-in and content for site
• Trained and supervised several Web assistants
• Created style guide for statewide use

Taught section of undergraduate communications course, Professional Writing in Business.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Aided USC undergraduate and graduate students individually with essays, résumés, memos, personal statements and other writing. Taught workshops to small groups.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Wrote and edited copy for Public Art Studies Program website. Reorganized site.

• Coordinated all communications and other functions for nonprofit development office
• Wrote grant proposals and inquiry letters
• Wrote, processed and tracked correspondence between office and both donors and prospective donors
• Created and maintained a foundation database for fundraising
• Processed gifts and donations
• Maintained donor and prospect records and donor recognition wall

Master'S Degree, Public Art Administration

Certificate, Natural Resources/Conservation, General

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English