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Salinas, Ca, Us

San Lorenzo, California, United States

Serve as the San Lorenzo Unified School District's chief communication strategist, media liaison and spokesperson, guiding public relations and communication strategy and engaging employees, families, and the greater community in support of student achievement and success.

Salinas, Calif.

As an Executive Cabinet member, provided communications, marketing, and government relations services for 17,000-student community college, as well as communications and marketing support for intercollegiate athletics and fund development through the Hartnell College Foundation. Have led strategic communications/marketing through three superintendent/president transitions and COVID-19 pandemic, including return-to-campus planning, as well as five major building projects.

Bemidji, Mn

Led a staff of four professionals and six student workers to provide recruitment and institutional marketing (digital and print), branding, leadership communications, crisis communications, publications, media relations, social media, community and government relations, donor and alumni communications, and internal communications for a four-year comprehensive university and a two-year technical college. Accomplishments include institutional rebranding, current redesign of the university and college websites, digital marketing leadership, and communications for a five-year, $37 million fundraising campaign completed in 2016.

Seaside, Ca

Managed staff of six professionals and two student workers to implement wide-ranging internal and external communications efforts that increased awareness, expanded private support, and enhanced reputation for academic quality, student access, and public service. Responsibilities included publications, news, television, photography, video, social media, website, media relations, marketing, special events, development communications, crisis communications, and leadership communications.-- Supervised the general manager of KAZU-FM radio, a university-held NPR station that leads the Monterey Bay market among college-educated adults, with more than $1 million in annual underwriting and membership revenue.

Salinas, California Area

Led an organization of 125 employees across all departments of The Salinas Californian, a daily newspaper (19,000 circulation) and website (TheCalifornian.com); El Sol, a twice-weekly, Spanish-language newspaper (12,500 circulation) and website (elsoldesalinas.com); and other multiple other publications, with responsibility for editorial, advertising, accounting, personnel, production, and circulation. Represented the company in the community, region, and state and at corporate meetings.

Salinas, California Area

Directed a staff of 30 newsroom employees to produce all news and editorial content for The Salinas Californian, a daily newspaper (19,000 circulation) and website (TheCalifornian.com); El Sol, a twice-weekly, Spanish-language newspaper (12,500 circulation) and website (elsoldesalinas.com); and multiple other non-daily publications in English and Spanish. Represented the company in the community, region, and state and at corporate meetings.

Reno, Nevada Area

Managed 95 newsroom employees with responsibility for planning, directing, and presenting all news and editorial content for the daily Reno Gazette Journal newspaper (68,000 circulation weekdays and 85,000 on Sunday) and related non-daily publications.

Visalia, California Area

Supervised 25 newsroom employees for two six-day daily newspapers, the Visalia Times-Delta (circulation 22,000) and the Tulare Advance-Register (circulation 8,000), serving Tulare County, CA, with responsibility for planning, directing and presenting all news and editorial content.

Rockford, Illinois Area

Through one promotion, from city editor to assistant managing editor, gained progressively greater responsibility for newsroom supervision and content planning, editing, direction and presentation of seven-day daily newspaper (73,000 circulation weekdays and 85,000 Sunday) and related publications.

Rockford, Illinois Area

Reporting to an executive editor, managed a 75-person newsroom and content planning, editing, direction, and presentation of seven-day daily newspaper (73,000 circulation weekdays and 85,000 Sunday) and related publications.

Greater Detroit Area

After joining the staff of The Detroit News (645,000 weekday circulation) as a reporter in the Oakland County bureau, I moved into a general assignment reporting position before becoming an assistant city editor in 1989, with responsibility for courts and education; and became weekend city editor in 1991, with responsibility for planning, coordinating, and assigning local content for the Sunday edition (circulation 837,000). I also edited the weekly Discover science and technology section from 1991-93.

Wichita, Kansas Area

Began as a community news reporter for the weekly Neighbors section before moving onto work as a general assignment reporter for state news, a state legislative reporter, a county government reporter and a special assignment covering the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant rate case before the Kansas Corporation Commission.

Master'S, Communication And Leadership Studies, 3.88 Cumulative Gpa

Activities and Societies: Co-presented a paper at the 2010 Northwest Communications Association Conference in Coeur d'Alene, ID.Combines.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Journalism

Activities and Societies: Editor, University Daily Kansan

Bachelor Of Science, Journalism -- News-Editorial, 3.64 Cumulative Gpa

Activities and Societies: University Daily Kansan newspaper, 15,000 circulation (editor, fall 1981)