Experience

R Street Institute

• United States
• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President of Public Affairs

  • Apr 2022 - Present



White House Writers Group, Inc.

• United States
• Public Relations and Communications Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Director

  • Jan 2019 - Apr 2022

  Manage multiple client teams, including in the fields of public health, healthcare, education, national security, manufacturing, and technology.• Actively participate in business development, leading on proposals and pitches for a wide range of projects across industries, including book promotion, crisis communications, thought leadership campaigns, and issue advocacy.• Help organize and oversee recommendations to firm processes, including management meetings, client materials, and business development tactics.



The Herald Group

• United States
• Public Relations and Communications Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President of Public Affairs

  • May 2017 - Dec 2018

  Managed multiple client teams, working with a leading pharmaceutical manufacturers association, financial services associations, and insurance coalition, as well as advising a leading corporate agriculture client.• Managed cultivation of third party alliance work, helping supervise existing staff to formalize and expand the program. Also making appropriate introductions for other client teams, and helping manage those relationships.• Led “Firm Positioning” initiative to further cultivate contacts with third parties, members of the media and existing clients. This includes running a monthly media luncheon series, hosting leading reporters and editors from The Washington Post, The Hill, US News and World Report, and Politico.• Actively participated in business development, leading on proposals and pitches for a major fashion conglomerate, major online retail company, large technology corporation, and several trade associations. In addition, working to build out existing client portfolios.



Independent Women's Forum

• United States
• Public Policy Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Jan 2012 - May 2017

  Served as the public face of the organization, speaking to a wide-range of groups and commenting on a broad range of domestic policy issues regularly on Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, and radio stations across the country. • Grew budget by 80 percent from $600,000 to $4mm working with non-profit foundations, high net-worth individuals, and corporations;• Increased staff by 100 percent from 5 to10 full-time employees and 17 spokeswomen across the country, created Leadership Circle, and grew Board of Directors;• Rebranded organization, created six core policy projects, and established IWF as the thought-leader focused on women and politics;• Introduced sophisticated, applied social science research, including the use of randomized controlled trials used to advance mission;• Developed key relationships on Capitol Hill to help advance IWF's policy agenda;• Spearheaded broadcast media overhaul, increasing TV appearances by 370 percent to nearly 600 in 2015 on all the leading networks;• Served as lead spokeswoman on television and in front of audiences ranging from intimate gatherings of high net-worth individuals to major conferences.



Independent Communications Experience

• Strategic Communications Consultant

  • Jul 2007 - Jan 2012

  Worked with leading communications firms, corporations, trade associations, government associations, and non-profits conducting a wide-range of strategic communication activities, including:• Leading surveys and focus groups for message development and testing as part of a rebranding effort for a leading defense corporation;• Speechwriting, oped writing, newsletter production on issues ranging from budget deficit and government spending, education reform, transportation policy, health care, and foreign affairs;• Cultivating media relationships, oped pitching and placement;• Designing and executing high-level salon dinners and large-scale events.



Senator George Voinovich

• Speechwriter

  • Aug 2006 - Jul 2007

  Served as lead speechwriter, focused on public remarks and op-eds on range of issues, including fiscal health, foreign affairs, immigration reform, and energy policy. Responsible for floor speeches, as well as words for Ohio and Washington, DC-based events.Designed communications strategy to increase Senator’s profile within conservative movement. Served as lead speechwriter, focused on public remarks and op-eds on range of issues, including fiscal health, foreign affairs, immigration reform, and energy policy. Responsible for floor speeches, as well as words for Ohio and Washington, DC-based events.Designed communications strategy to increase Senator’s profile within conservative movement.



Republican Jewish Coaltion

• Director of Media Relations and Public Affairs

  • Aug 2005 - Jul 2006

  Built relationships with members of the media, think tanks, policy organizations, Capitol Hill and the White House in order to advance the ends of the RJC. This included speaking about RJC policy positions to educational groups, organization heads, and high-level donors; maintaining weekly e-newsletter; writing speeches and opinion articles for publication; organizing elite dinners for the media; working with grassroots director to design meetings in DC and generate attention for chapter events around the country.



White House Writers Group

• Public Relations and Communications Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • May 2001 - Aug 2003

  Liaison to U.S. Department of Labor• Helped design and implement the “Skilled Trades Initiative” for the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, which included writing, editing, and power point presentation.Associate • Researched, edited, and wrote for political, corporate, and intellectual clients, including a major telecommunications firm, energy corporation, and automobile company;• Performed client media relations, working closely with the Hoover Institution, as well as the Manhattan Institute, the Cato Institute, and the Pacific Research Institute.• Organized and executed conferences and events.



American Enterprise Institute

• United States
• Think Tanks
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Staff Assistant to Amb. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

  • Jun 1999 - Mar 2001

  Served as assistant to former U.N. Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick. Assisted with speaking and travel engagements, research, and administrative duties.Also worked regularly with other scholars and the New Atlantic Initiative at the American Enterprise Institute, planning several events overseas in Paris and Madrid. Served as assistant to former U.N. Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick. Assisted with speaking and travel engagements, research, and administrative duties.Also worked regularly with other scholars and the New Atlantic Initiative at the American Enterprise Institute, planning several events overseas in Paris and Madrid.