Resume

Qualifications

Communications leader with 25+ years of experience partnering with executive leadership, development teams, and program staff to translate organizational goals into compelling stories that build brands, engage supporters, and advance mission-driven organizations. Combines strategic thinking with hands-on expertise in writing, design, photography, and digital and print production. Known for brining together diverse stakeholders to create clear, compelling communications that advance shared organizational goals.

Professional
Experience

Marketing & Communications Manager
Creative Art Works, New York, NY 2014 – present

Leads the organization’s integrated communications strategy across print, digital, web, photography, publications, email marketing, and social media. Partners with executive leadership, development, and program teams to create communications that support fundraising, public engagement, and institutional goals. Directs the creative development of annual benefit journals, impact reports, websites, donor campaigns, editorial content, and promotional materials. Manages brand identity and messaging across all public-facing channels, ensuring a consistent voice and visual identity. Serves as the organization’s principal writer, designer, photographer, and web manager while coordinating feedback from multiple stakeholders throughout the creative process. Contributed to organizational growth during a period in which the annual operating budget increased from approximately $1 million to more than $2 million.

Cooperating Teacher, CUNY-START Program
Bronx Community College, Bronx, NY 2012 – 2013

Taught English composition and reading in an intensive remediation program. 

Freelance Marketing Professional
Norwalk, CT 2009 – 2014

Wrote, edited, photographed and designed graphics for print and web. 

Director of Marketing
Phil Fraley Productions, Inc.; Hoboken, NJ 2005 – 2009

Conceived and directed strategic plans to move company from personality (Phil Fraley) to a brand (PFP). Led design and implementation of website. Organized trade show exhibits and trained staff. Developed relationships with media professionals from news organizations, including NBC, PBS, and Discovery Channel.

Assistant Editor
AOL Time Warner, DC Comics; New York, NY    2004 – 2005

Facilitated editorial and production duties for a number of ongoing titles under the Vertigo imprint. 

Secondary School Teacher
Los Angeles Unified School District     1994 – 1997

Developed engaging, skill-appropriate, lesson plans to motivate and inspire students. 

Education

Masters of Professional Writing Program, University of Southern California           
BA, History, The George Washington University
Teacher Credential Program, California State University at Donmiguez Hills