Experience

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  Federal Reserve Board

  • United States
  • Banking
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Senior Communications Specialist

    • Feb 2016 - Present

    • Facilitate strategic research and policy analysis on community economic development through building communications and marketing strategy that sources community perspectives and surveys of 11K+ U.S. households’ economic well-being in areas such as credit access, savings, and retirement. Coordinate across internal and external partners to generate press releases, reports, and one-pagers that enable information transfer with media, community development organizations, and researchers. • Partner with community development outreach professionals to support community-engaged, community-based participatory research that generates more equitable, diversity and inclusion-based research. Engage with the Racial Equity Learning Community to enable researchers at the Federal Reserve to better intertwine race and equity in their research, including their approach to acquiring and engaging with quantitative datasets and qualitative research design.• Strengthened the Federal Reserve’s collaboration and policymaking efforts through developing 5+ high-profile multimedia communications campaigns per year, such as a book promotion effort to advance the importance of rural communities and a 5-part storytelling campaign about the Community Reinvestment Act, which centers community perspectives in monetary policy development and implementation.• Create communications (press releases, blog pieces, and marketing plans) for publications centered on policy evaluation on topics of student loans, small businesses’ access to capital, changes in retail banking, and how consumers, communities, and community development organizations are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.• Led team of 5+ writers to publish 10+ articles that conveyed the Federal Reserve’s community development efforts in the field.• Organized an internal resource center for 150+ staff aimed at addressing critical needs for information as a result of Federal Reserve actions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Rotation Assignment: Markets Oversight, Financial Risk Management

    • Feb 2018 - Aug 2018

    • Conducted a root-cause analysis of risk event data and developed a report to highlight risks and impacts on the current monetary policy implementation framework, as part of a review of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Markets Group.• Established an integrated and holistic approach to market oversight and risk management by developing an organizational structure that mitigates operational risk through ongoing, informal reviews, and promotes data sharing between banks. • Oversaw the development and implementation of a SharePoint information portal, including requirements gathering and user-testing, to establish a centralized communications program that boosted efficiency and effectiveness for 30+ people.

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  Spilling Ink

  • Washington DC-Baltimore Area

  • Founder, Co-Artistic Director

    • Mar 2007 - Present
    • Washington DC-Baltimore Area

    • Oversee the end-to-end management of all organizational functions, including managing a $100K budget, writing 4+ grants annually, communication, marketing, finance, and operations, and established partnerships with collaborators, funders, presenters, and outreach organizations to enable the development of programs that tour regionally, nationally, and internationally.• Conceptualize, research, and script performance-based works informed by rigorous research and critical analysis, choreograph work in artistic partnership with co-artistic director, and collaborate with cross-discipline national and international artists to create and curate holistic, experience-based projects.• Design, implement and facilitate teaching programs, creative workshops, and mentoring for dancers, and develop and deliver curriculum for 100+ K-12 schools and colleges/universities through residencies, workshops, and assemblies; partnered with Gateway to the Arts and Class Acts Arts to reach thousands of students in Pennsylvania and the Washington Metropolitan region for 20+ years.• Advocate and promote for increased support for arts and arts education through developing targeted programming for children and adults, and leading international media tours to raise awareness of the potential for the arts in enabling individual and community healing.

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  The New School

  • New York, New York, United States

  • Teaching Fellow

    • Aug 2022 - May 2023
    • New York, New York, United States

    • Taught “Arts Management: An Entrepreneurial Approach” course to 20 undergrads in the School of Public Engagement's Management and Business program. Developed curriculum and content to inform students on understanding issues faced by formal and informal cultural and artistic practitioners and organizations, the larger context of low- and moderate-income communities, global ways of transacting business, and navigating leadership. Curated a diverse approach to lesson delivery, including guest lectures with national and regional artists and arts administrators, classroom debates, and site visits to local businesses and community small business incubators.• Co-taught Projects Studio, an application-based capstone course, to 60+ first and second-year Transdisciplinary Design MFA students at Parsons School of Design and provided individualized mentorship and guidance to enable effective delivery of capstone deliverables. • Developed course curriculum and weekly lesson plans to teach students topics related to value mapping, iterative design, and systems-based thinking, enabling them to successfully complete design research projects.

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  COTTON USA™

  • Washington DC-Baltimore Area

  • Global Marketing Communications Manager

    • Nov 2014 - Jan 2016
    • Washington DC-Baltimore Area

    • Managed a global team of 40 staff and consultants to drive communications and marketing strategy projects for 17 global offices, and led the conceptualization, design, and execution of multimedia communication and marketing campaigns to ensure consistent branding, messaging, and positioning in the cotton industry.• Launched and implemented $5M international “I Love My Cotton” campaign, including a media tour encompassing 5+ countries, media placements in 25+ publications, and securing 4 celebrity endorsements, leading to increased awareness of U.S. cotton market.• Supported the development of key media products, including digital marketing/social media content, member communications, press releases, presentations, success stories, and video and photo-based tactics.

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  Self-employed

  • Washington DC-Baltimore Area

  • Communications Consultant

    • Mar 2009 - Jan 2016
    • Washington DC-Baltimore Area

    • Drafted business requirements and 20+ fit-for-purpose press releases and content to facilitate the delivery of NRL Mortgage’s communications initiatives and build an employee-focused organizational culture.• Developed press releases and customer retention marketing materials to support Envoy Mortgage’s public relations and marketing campaigns, and managed a cross-cultural communication and management project to promote operations effectiveness in India.• Advised Freddie Mac’s business leaders on internal communications strategy, developed newsletters and web content to keep single-family business line customers informed, and designed process maps to improve communication between service areas.

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  Nacha

  • Washington DC-Baltimore Area

  • Director of Communications

    • Nov 2011 - Nov 2014
    • Washington DC-Baltimore Area

    • Led 15+ editorial and creative marketing/communications projects encompassing internal and external stakeholders, such as senior executives, employees, association members, and media, to build awareness of the electronic payments sector.• Planned, developed, and delivered a 6-part leadership development program to advance engagement and effectiveness among employees, teams, and departments, and enable leaders to address change management, negotiation, and conflict resolution.

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  NICET

  • Washington DC-Baltimore Area

  • Certification Test Editor

    • Jan 2011 - Oct 2011
    • Washington DC-Baltimore Area

    • Developed organization-wide standards to follow psychometrically sound business practices and maintain quality in certification tests.• Led a customer equity research project to analyze approaches to customer retention and developed marketing strategies that reflected engineers’ and technicians’ values and priorities.

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  Mortgage Bankers Association

  • Washington DC-Baltimore Area

  • Senior Staff Writer

    • Mar 2007 - Mar 2009
    • Washington DC-Baltimore Area

    • Generated daily news stories about residential and commercial real estate finance industries, and mortgage technology, for online trade publications—MBA NewsLink, MBA Tech NewsLink, and MBA Commercial/Multifamily NewsLink— writing and editing journalistic content to increase media source equity among association member and subscriber daily readership exceeding 55K.• Contributed to a re-design project to streamline publications with other online trade media sources and bolster the $1M in ad revenue supporting these publications and their staffing.

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  August Wilson African American Cultural Center

  • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

  • Grant Writer

    • Sep 2005 - Feb 2007
    • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

    • Oversaw the development of 20+ government, foundation and corporate arts and culture grant proposals and reports, for organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Ford Foundation, and Heinz Endowments, to support a $36 million capital campaign and $1.5 million operating budget.• Managed organizational fundraising efforts, including the implementation of Raiser’s Edge to drive better data collection on fundraising campaigns and the execution of a hallmark annual giving campaign, raising $60K annually in the first and second years.