Professional Experience

Vice President of Communications | 2022–Present

• Serve on the Executive Council, providing enterprise leadership and strategic counsel on organizational priorities, positioning, communications, and stakeholder engagement.

• Advise the president and executive leaders on strategic messaging, organizational narratives, and high-visibility communications, shaping speeches, presentations, and ghostwritten content that articulate leadership’s voice and organizational priorities.

• Direct integrated communications, marketing, and brand strategy, setting the annual communications roadmap and editorial calendar while aligning priorities, resources, and multichannel initiatives across digital, social, email, video, and print from strategy through execution and performance evaluation.

• Translate global impact metrics and investment outcomes into compelling reports, case statements, and grant narratives that communicate organizational value, support strategic fundraising, and strengthen 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.

• Executes communications strategy for a multi-phase $9.525 million capital campaign, translating leadership vision into campaign strategy, donor communications, presentations, multimedia, print collateral, merchandise, and integrated event experiences that have contributed to more than $6.5M to date.

• Drive enterprise digital strategy and modernization, directing the comprehensive redesign and relaunch of the organization’s unified digital platform, integrating engagement, training, HR compliance, and operational systems serving more than 65,000 active users. Directed the migration and relaunch of the organization’s merchandise store, modernizing eCommerce operations and improving the customer experience while advancing practical AI adoption to increase efficiency.

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

• Oversee the organization’s publishing arm, directing editorial development, production, translation, distribution, and global partnerships, resulting in 28 books published and resource expansion into six additional languages in just four years.

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