Experience

City of Charleston, WV
• United States
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Assistant to City Manager

  • Aug 2022 - Present


Orion Strategies

• Hospitals and Health Care

• Government Relations Specialist / Manager

  • Mar 2016 - Jul 2022

  - Agency work experience spanned numerous clients in multiple industries including education, healthcare, energy, and nonprofit sectors in multiple states. - Maintained multiple client accounts and projects with campaign development, press releases and press kits, relationship management, strategic messaging, and social media campaigns. - Accomplishments included millions of media impressions across traditional and digital media, increased social media presence and traffic to social channels for clients, publishing of letters-to-the-editor and columns as part of grassroots advocacy efforts and successful brand awareness. - Successful legislative lobbying and monitoring efforts spanning over a five year period, including passing legislation, live reporting updates to clients and maintaining relationships with state officials, lawmakers and agencies.



The Education Alliance

• India
• Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Director

  • Nov 2010 - Mar 2016

  - Responsible for the coordination and implementation of WV eMentoring program which encouraged college and career readiness in public schools through online platform. - Organized statewide recruitment events for students and mentors. Accomplishments included 3,000 students in 22 counties and 400 mentors from 150 organizations in program participation. - Maintained Education Elevators mentoring program in elementary schools in Berkeley County, including mentor recruitment, creating business-to-school partnership and program evaluation - Assisted in the development and coordination new financial literacy project for high school students on behalf of WV GEAR UP Program with West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission - Began to transition to coordinate United Way bornlearning Academies powered by Toyota Program, including supervision of grant and program requirements for six elementary schools across the state - Wrote and designed all promotional material for WV eMentoring program for print and online publication - Maintained organization’s social media Facebook page and Twitter account. Accomplishments included over 1,600 Twitter followers, notoriety in live-tweeting legislative meetings, state Board of Education meetings. Also responsible for editing and maintaining organization’s monthly newsletter and providing weekly legislative updates for board members - Worked with county and state education administrators in designing and editing education curriculum for WV eMentoring program - Represented and interacted with business, education stakeholders at events and fundraising activities - Gained experience in grant reviewing for WV Department of Education’s WV 21st Century Community Learning Centers



Office of the Governor/State of West Virginia

• Special Assistant

  • May 2010 - Nov 2010

  - Wrote and maintained all daily correspondence on behalf of Former First Lady Gayle C. Manchin including written letters, electronic mail and phone calls - Maintained organization of all daily activities of the Governor’s Mansion, including tour scheduling and meetings on behalf of the First Lady - Performed extensive database maintenance used for correspondence and record keeping, responsible for major distribution of information, letters and cards - Provided information via telephone, letter or electronic mail correspondence to constituents