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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

• Design and lead policy strategies for legislation, litigation, education, and advocacy initiatives• Watchdog role in policy and media to promote and protect patient access to healthcare services• Strategic policy advisor to Title X education curriculum and PPAC endorsement committees• Organize Reproductive Roundtable coalition to advance legislative and policy solutions to expand healthcare access

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Author of Outdoor Adventure Guides: Backpacking and Hiking series with 24,000 copies sold• Published feature articles in Runner’s World, Outside, Women’s Health, Wired, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, and Backpacker; author of numerous op-eds in Utah newspapers• First-place winner for Business/Consumer Reporting (Utah Society of Professional Journalists) for City Weekly cover article on proposed ski industry expansion in Utah• Editor and writer at OR Daily trade magazine focused on outdoor industry trends and challenges

Https://Www.Dk.Com/Us/Book/9781465492647-Backpacking--Hiking/

▪ Authored "Outdoor Adventure Guide: Backpacking and Hiking" published by Penguin Random House in June 2020, an expanded 2nd edition of my first book, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Backpacking and Hiking," published by Penguin in 2010▪ This two-book series has sold over 24,000 copies▪ Learn more and order a copy here: https://www.dk.com/us/book/9781465492647-backpacking--hiking/

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Manage board of 12 residents to organize monthly meetings, social media feeds, and townhall forums to discuss housing, infrastructure, transit, and public safety issues affecting 4,000 SLC households• Arrange public speakers and panel discussions on current event topics including the local real estate market, rooftop solar, gardening, local history, public safety, and xeriscaping. • Produce bimonthly e-newsletter that reaches 850 residents with local news and updates

Salt Lake City, Utah

• Oversaw affiliate’s strategic planning, government relations, policy analysis, branding, media and communications operations across Legal, Campaigns, Development, and administrative teams• Managed relationships with elected officials and public agencies at state, county, and local levels• Cultivated media network of 130 reporters, editors, and producers at Utah and national outlets• Designed and built new ACLU of Utah website with embedded tools for public engagement• Produced biannual newsmagazines and wrote op-eds, policy guides, and press releases• Tracked engagement metrics for social media, mass email, newsmagazine, and issue surveys

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Developed education and outreach strategies to guide Utah’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance marketplace in a challenging political environment; advised public health roundtable• Researched and presented annual “State of Health Care Reform” updates; published yearly op-charts measuring changes in demographic, economic, and healthcare trends in Utah• Created successful outreach and education campaigns to promote insurance sign-ups among diverse communities to help Utah place in top three states for enrollment growth, 2014-17• Led 240 town halls across Utah to reach 10,000 residents with accurate insurance facts

Greater Salt Lake City Area

▪ District #5 representative tasked to advise the Transportation Division on new cycling policies and infrastructure

▪ Won the primary election and knocked on 4,500 doors before losing 49%-51% in the general election

Greater Salt Lake City Area

▪ Board member for Salt Lake City's oldest independent pre-school and served as chair of newsletter and marketing committees

Lancaster, Pa

▪ Created a curriculum and taught free weekly classes to help 115 immigrants and refugees become U.S. citizens▪ Learn more about Citizenship Lancaster here: http://www.webatomics.com/citizen/

Emmaus, Pa

▪ Interim health and wellness editor at award-winning national men's lifestyle magazine

Boulder, Co

▪ Backpacker is an award-winning national wilderness hiking and adventure magazine with a paid circulation of 350,000 based in Boulder, CO• Edited 165 articles and features as part of editorial team that won two National Magazine Awards• Created and evaluated recreation metrics for “Best Cities” series ranking ideal U.S. places to live

Santa Fe, Nm

▪ Outside is an iconic national outdoors and travel magazine with a paid circulation of over 600,000 based on Santa Fe, NM• Researched 25 feature stories and wrote 12 articles while coordinating political, environmental, and technology coverage; in-house data analyst; fact-checked “Wild File” science column

Boston, Ma

▪ ICIC is a national, nonprofit consultant firm founded by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter to promote economic development in cities▪ Provided guidance to elected officials, unions, and business executives in a half-dozen U.S. and U.K. cities based on analysis of surveys, Census data, and economic forecasts

B.A. Magna Cum Laude, Social Studies

▪ Graduation speaker and newspaper president, news editor, and columnist; created college admissions seminar for Boston high school.

Master Of Science (Msc), Modern British History

• Received St. Andrew’s Society of New York fellowship for postgraduate studies • Instructor for undergraduate tutorial on U.S. history •.