Who Am I?

An award-winning writer, editor, and communications strategist with nearly 15 years’ experience working with higher education institutions, independent schools, marketing firms, nonprofits, and businesses of all sizes.

Expertise

• Fundraising communications strategy and execution
• Content strategy research and development
• Qualitative research and messaging platform development
• Editorial direction
• Website project management
• Feature reporting
• Content marketing (including blogging, e-books, and white papers)
• Copywriting
• Comprehensive editing knowledge (academic, journalistic, and commercial publications)
• Scriptwriting

In-House Roles

Positions have included:

• Director of Advancement Communications, University of North Carolina Wilmington
• Senior Associate Director of Communications, Development and Alumni Relations, Johns Hopkins University and Medicine
• Alumni and Communications Manager, The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars
• Senior Editor, Currents Magazine, Council for Advancement and Support of Education
• Assistant Director of Alumni Communications and Editor, The Magazine of Elon, Elon University

Projects have included:

• Directing all communications surrounding the launch of a $100 million fundraising campaign
• Serving as primary writer for a $6 billion fundraising campaign
• Leading development, launch, and maintenance of a $100,000 enterprise-wide website
• Creating and managing an enterprise-wide editorial management system for the development division of a top-10 global university
• Managing production of a quarterly magazine with a circulation of 60,000+

Freelance Roles

Clients have included:

• Magazines
  • The Stevens Indicator (Stevens Institute of Technology)
  • The Magazine of Elon (Elon University)
  • Walden Magazine (Walden University)
• Colleges and universities
  • The University at Buffalo
  • Cornell Law School
  • Arcadia University
  • Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Elon University
• Nonprofits
  • Grameen Foundation
  • The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars
• Marketing firms
  • RightSource Marketing
  • Adept Marketing
  • Bravery Media
  • Graphic Details
  • Creative Communication Associates
• Companies and small businesses
  • ChenMed
  • Cognosos
  • Credo Higher Ed
  • Dr. Josie, Inc.

Recent projects have included:

• Conducting stakeholder research and developing the messaging platform for an Ivy League law school’s $175 million campaign
• Developing and executing a content strategy for the annual report of a nonprofit that generates $20 million+ in revenue
• Producing twice-monthly blog posts and frequent e-books for two fast-growing companies in the health care sector, in collaboration with executives and subject-matter experts 
• Providing revision and copywriting services of 100+ pages during the redesign of a top-10 U.S. cancer hospital’s website
• Preparing executive remarks and scripts for a fundraising gala that raises $200,000+ annually
• Conducting interviews and reporting feature-length stories for institutional and niche magazines

Honors and Awards

2019 Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District II Silver Award Category: Staff Writing

2019 CASE District II Honorable Mention for “What Happened Next?” series
Category: Creativity on a Shoestring

2017 CASE District II Silver Award
Category: Staff Writing

2011, 2012, 2013 CASE District III Special Merit Awards for The Magazine of Elon
Category: Magazine II

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