Susan Thomas Email & Phone Number

Indio, Ca, Us

1655 East 3300 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84106

• Serve as Public Information Officer (PIO)• Excel at media relations, positive media coverage, and social media• Collaborate with and advise school governing cabinet and division directors• Direct and supervise public relations team, manage budget• Develop and execute communications strategic plan• Plan and manage large events (in-person and virtual)• Manage safety committee; produce and maintain emergency plans• Developed and established Education Foundation 50l(c)

Lead planner in the State Emergency Operations Center, Planning Section Chief for Emergency Support Function (ESF #5) Planning and Information• Managed committees and led programs collaborating with hundreds of stakeholders• Authored the State Emergency Operations Plan and the weekly Utah Situation Reports• Developed and maintained continuity/communication plans for 99 state agencies• Supervised the planning section team members and budget• Served at the Department level for two projects as Public Relations Strategist to the DPS Commissioner including Operation Rio Grande• Weekend PIO for the Utah Highway Patrol

• Created/implemented a successful internal/external communications plan• Recruited, trained, and led a statewide PIO team• Spokesperson for the American Red Cross Utah region• Later, recruited and elected as board member of this organization 2018-2022

• Fundraising for events and education programs. Gained multiple media sponsorships.• Media Relations: Frequently prepared and distributed successful news releases, story ideas and photographs to media, as well as to internal staff, partners and stakeholders. • Served as spokesperson for the Annual Park City Arts Festival and Kimball Art Center. • Managed statewide and national marketing budget, as well as monthly and annual event budgets• Planning team for the annual Park City Kimball Arts Festival event, hosting 40,000 attendees. • Increased positive media coverage to 200+ positive stories per year. • Increased art center event attendance from 20 to 300 guests per month.

• Strategic and operational management monthly newspaper • Increased advertising sales and monthly circulation to 20,000+. • Served as writer and editor-in-chief for this monthly 16-page publication. • Managed workforce including writers, photographers, distributors and independent contractors.• Sold the business to the Valley Journals in 2004.

Oregon, Idaho, New Hampshire And Utah

TV News reporter/anchor/producer for 10 years.

B.A., Communications, Honors Program

Activities and Societies: Edward R. Murrow Communications Center, Gamma Phi Beta Sorority, W.S.U. Honors ProgramSecond Major, Foreign.

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