Experience

The MacDowell Colony

• Director of Development

  • Nov 2014 - Present

  • Direct a team of fundraising professionals to support $4 million budget for artist residencies. • Develop new programs to align core mission objectives with annual and endowment fundraising needs. • Lead new digital media strategy to develop a mobile web platform, managing a team of consultants, web developers, artists, board, and staff. • Oversee major expansion of a planned giving program to promote bequests, charitable trusts, and other estate gifts.• Integrate Development priorities with communications activities, generating content for the Web, newsletters, major surveys, direct mail, annual reports, press kits, and event sponsorships.• Create annual budget, and supervise assistants and interns.

• Development Officer

  • Jan 2008 - Jan 2013

  Manage proposals and fundraising appeals to foundation, corporate, and individual funders in support of a $3.5 million budget for artist residencies. Institutional giving is up more than 40% under my watch.Lead new digital media strategy to develop a mobile app and web platform. Write and edit all Development-related content for communications, including website, newsletters, brochures, annual reports, press kits, and event sponsorshipsManage major expansion of a planned giving program, including two brochures and a new webpageWork with artists, board members, and other stakeholders to build a knowledge base of donor interests and cultivation strategies around specific artistic disciplines, geographic regions, and other program areasHelp supervise Development Assistant and Development intern program



Johns Hopkins University

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Editor / Instructor

  • Aug 2005 - Aug 2007

  Writer and editor of Johns Hopkins' new graduate student handbook.Instructor for undergraduate writing courses, including majors section and original course "Writing the Blues" Writer and editor of Johns Hopkins' new graduate student handbook.Instructor for undergraduate writing courses, including majors section and original course "Writing the Blues"



Delta Center for Culture and Learning

• Program Director / Communications Specialist

  • Dec 2003 - Jul 2005

  Directed K-12 learning programs promoting the arts and culture of the Mississippi DeltaLed tours of the region to heritage tourist groups from all over the worldManaged Delta State University volunteer program connecting more than 4,000 college students to local community organizations and projectsWrote more than $450,000 in grants to support programmingRan publicity campaigns, including press releases and newspaper columns, to support programs and events Directed K-12 learning programs promoting the arts and culture of the Mississippi DeltaLed tours of the region to heritage tourist groups from all over the worldManaged Delta State University volunteer program connecting more than 4,000 college students to local community organizations and projectsWrote more than $450,000 in grants to support programmingRan publicity campaigns, including press releases and newspaper columns, to support programs and events



Greenwood Commonwealth

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Staff Writer / Photographer

  • Sep 2001 - Dec 2003

  Won 11 AP and Mississippi Press awards, including first-place in features, best series, and breaking newsGenerated articles and photographs for various beats, including education, arts & culture, and politics Won 11 AP and Mississippi Press awards, including first-place in features, best series, and breaking newsGenerated articles and photographs for various beats, including education, arts & culture, and politics