Professional Experience

Vice President of Communications | September 2022–Present

• Serve on the Executive Council, providing enterprise leadership for communications strategy, organizational positioning, executive messaging, and stakeholder engagement.

  • Advise the President and executive leaders on strategic messaging, organizational narratives, and high-visibility communications, developing executive presentations, talking points, press releases, video scripts, and ghostwritten content.

  • Direct integrated communications, marketing, and brand strategy, setting the annual communications roadmap and editorial calendar while guiding multichannel campaigns across digital, social, email, video, and print from concept through production, publishing, and performance evaluation.

  • Translate global impact metrics and investment outcomes into compelling reports, case statements, and grant narratives that demonstrate organizational value and strengthen fundraising and stakeholder confidence.

  • Lead global field reporting and crisis communications, exercising sound judgment and protecting organizational credibility through timely, accurate, and brand-aligned messaging that informs stakeholders, communicates impact, and mobilizes support.

  • Execute communications strategy for a multi-phase $9.4M capital campaign, translating executive vision into campaign branding, donor communications, presentations, multimedia, print collateral, merchandise, and integrated event experiences that have contributed to more than $6.5M raised.

  • Drive enterprise digital strategy and modernization, transforming fragmented platforms, legacy systems, and paper-based processes into integrated digital ecosystems supporting engagement, learning, HR compliance, and operations for more than 65,000 users while advancing the practical application of AI tools to improve efficiency and content development.

  • Lead organizational learning and technology adoption by designing and delivering in-person training, virtual onboarding, online courses, manuals, and systems training that equip employees to effectively use new platforms, technologies, programs, and organizational processes.

  • Oversee the organization’s publishing arm, directing editorial development, production, translation, distribution, and global partnerships–publishing 28 books and expanding resources into six additional languages in only four years.

  • Lead a multidisciplinary communications and creative team, providing project management and creative direction while collaborating across departments and global teams to align communications, technology, and organizational priorities.