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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Greater Chicago Area

• Communications lead on the foundation’s climate change, criminal justice, nuclear security, journalism, affordable housing, conservation, and digital media and learning programs.
• Helped to lead the foundation’s transition to a networked team approach that integrates grantmaking, evaluation, and communication functions under a single strategy.
• Develop and manage program-specific communications plans that guide all press outreach, social media, multimedia production, web content, and public events.
• Work regularly across philanthropic, nonprofit, corporate, tech, and media sectors on communications campaigns.
• Regularly innovate new ways of amplifying grantee stories and grow audiences for issues we work on through digital media; update media outreach capabilities, grow social media, and use of the foundation voice by.

West Liberty, Iowa

City Councilman in Iowa’s first majority Latino city, making decisions on land-use, municipal law, and economic development.

Responsible for carrying out foreign policy non-profit’s public communication and advocacy strategy to achieve policy influence on nuclear nonproliferation, human protection and global governance issues; program management of media funding. Key achievements include development of cross-cultural journalism training programs in India and China; co-creation.

Enterprise and daily newspaper beat with focus on U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. Stories explored domestic impact of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, amputee soldiers, recruitment fraud and Georgia National Guard’s Hurricane Katrina Response. Experience covering government and politics.

Promoted after one year of covering county government. Responsible for enterprise projects, including reports on infant mortality rates, fraudulent home contractors and discrimination in city fire department.