Thomas Pipkin Email & Phone Number

Washington, D.C.

Led by Tom Pipkin, Pipkin Creative Communications leverages insight, creativity, established ground level relationships, and deep knowledge of the communities of Washington, D.C. to achieve messaging goals and connect with stakeholder needs. The firm’s capabilities include general creative consultation, strategic communications, outreach, public meeting management and facilitation, direct street level engagement and strategy, web design and content creation, music event curation and production and public mural creation and installation. Pipkin Creative offers full scale event ideation, curation and production. The company works closely with over a dozen local and internationally established artists to create large scale exterior murals and interior installations. All of these capabilities allow the company to produce high value community activations and engagements with lasting and meaningful results. PCC has managed public outreach and strategic community engagement for several high profile DDOT infrastructure projects: the Reconstruction of 18th Street in Adams Morgan, the Reconstruction of Nebraska Ave NW, the Rhode Island Avenue Pedestrian Bridge Project, Adams Mill Road Reconstruction, and various other city wide streetlight and sidewalk replacement initiatives. Pipkin Creative has produced 78 neighborhood jazz concerts, 12 large scale murals, 5 full scale neighborhood festivals, 2 all day jazz festivals, 2 all day Mexican Luchadores wrestling events, a holiday pop up street art gallery in a pedestrian walkway: "Gifted", as well as a three week pop up art gallery and event concept: "Truth Among Liars".

Washington, D.C.

International Jazz Day was adopted by the United Nations and UNESCO in 2012 to promote music, culture, and jazz music, as a tool to inspire peaceful cooperation and partnership among communities across the globe. One of the goals of International Jazz Day is to encourage local celebrations of jazz on or around April 30. Last year over 190 countries and all 50 states organized celebrations. My role in for this short term consultant job was to ensure activations in all 50 states and every country in Asia. www.jazzday.com

Provided expertise with the development and implementation of a comprehensive public relations and communication plan for several high profile projects for the District Department of Transportation. These include the Rhode Island Avenue Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge Project, Reconstruction of 7 locations in Ward 5 and 6, The Harvard Triangle Project, The Reconstruction of Nebraska Avenue, and the Reconstruction of 18th Street, NW/Adams Morgan Streetscape Project, Washington, DC. Working tasks include the organization and facilitation of a community relations team, public meeting attendance, communications and coordination with contractors, engineers, and stakeholders. Also responsible for the initiation and maintenance of relationships with local governmental organizations, the production of website and public communications materials.

Managed day to day retail operations for DC's first all electric fleet healthy foods mobile vending company. On The Fly grew within one year from a single "eco-smartkart" to eight, as well as three brick and mortar smartkafes. A groundbreaking concept and venture the opened the gates for Washington D.C.'s current food truck culture, On The Fly offered fresh, local, and fun healthy foods for those on the go. Duties included concept and retail marketing, staff training and management, operational process development and general operations management.