Launched national projects, managed media strategy and coverage, developed community partnerships, worked with funders and created and managed events.• Launched media campaign for National Day of Unplugging project in 2010 and grew coverage to more than seven billion media impressions.• Led communications strategy and execution for programs and products with national and worldwide impact and reach. Wrote news releases tailored to different audiences, pitched media and conducted interviews. Managed relationships with journalists and media firms. • Grew partnerships and community engagement locally from a handful of partners to more than 200 with hundreds of events annually around key projects. • Developed new creative content as model for staff to engage new and different audiences in projects with results consistently showing behavioral change in overwhelming majority of participants.• Grew signature annual event from 50 attendees to more than 600, adding partner component and landing press coverage. Created new annual holiday pop-up stores and managed all aspects: secured venues, built out shops, sourced products, managed budgets, created daily multiple-audience programming, and managed communications and staffing.• Launched national video project. Led project development, partnerships, events and communications and managed web content and creation of event collateral. Managed professional film studio, set up equipment, booked subjects, trained interviewers, and led filming and editing process.

General assignment reporter, developing quick expertise on a wide range of topics from politics, education, business and culture to crime and disaster response, finding sources quickly and producing articles on tight deadline. • Conducted award-winning investigative project that uncovered serious violations in the University of California’s hiring and pay practices. The series prompted resignations of the president and provost of the 10-campus University of California system and the most extensive overhaul of policies and practices in the history of the university system. Newspaper nominated the series for a Pulitzer Prize and it won multiple national and regional investigative and freedom of information awards.• Covered the University of California and California State University systems, private colleges and universities and state and national issues. Developed and maintained relationships with sources. Collaborated and communicated with editors, graphic artists and photographers. Led the state in breaking news and enterprise coverage.

Taught news writing to adults in continuing education division of UC Berkeley.• Took over class from colleague on short notice. Got up to speed quickly and become popular teacher with top reviews.

• Covered city and county politics, writing news, business and features, translating bureaucratic reports, budgets and government workings into simple language for general readership. • Covered military base closure and reuse process, growth and development and local elections.• Covered education throughout Marin County.

• Turned summer internship into full-time position, developing a new East Bay beat, covering crime, business, government and enterprise features. Covered Barry Bonds divorce hearing, reporting daily on legal wrangling and his expressive outfits.