01 WORK / CASE FILE
Strategic Communications
Turning complex ideas into clear strategy, credible stories, and public momentum.
01 OVERVIEW
The context comes first.
My career has centered on building communications work that connects strategy to execution. I translate complex issues into clear narratives, shape the plans that carry them, and keep the work moving from the first idea through public launch.
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02 CONTRIBUTION
What was made, moved, or changed.
- 01Strategy & Planning—
Most communications problems are strategy problems in disguise. Before anything gets drafted, I want to know who we're actually trying to move, what they already believe, and why our version of the argument sounds different from the six other groups making it.
- 02Campaigns & Execution—
The favorite part of my job is when the plan hits a real deadline. Multi-part policy roadmaps, webinar launches, funder-facing events, coastal grantee announcements that landed on Fast Company's World Changing Ideas list: what I'm proudest of is the work that shipped on schedule and actually landed with someone.
- 03Media, Public Relations & Public Affairs—
I prep spokespeople, manage our outside PR firm, and write federal policy messaging that stays nonpartisan without going soft. Climate work in Washington means your language has to survive a hearing room and a reporter's deadline in the same week.
- 04Team, Systems & Operations—
I manage three specialists and the budget behind them. Much of the job is unglamorous plumbing: project intake that doesn't lose things, a style guide people follow without being nagged, and knowing when to bring in a contractor instead of running the team into the ground.
03 VISUAL RECORD
A flexible frame for the real work.
04 HIGHLIGHTS
Where the work landed.
- Helped sustain a clear, nonpartisan public narrative through a volatile policy year—supporting the broader effort to defend the Direct Air Capture Hubs program, protect more than $100 million in federal research and development funding, and maintain bipartisan support for carbon removal.
- Supported the launch of Carbon180's first ocean policy team with messaging that translated a new technical portfolio into an accessible public-policy story.
- Strengthened the story of Carbon180's first decade—from explaining an unfamiliar idea to showing how policy, standards, coalitions, and community participation helped shape an emerging field.
- Kept justice and equity central to the public case for durable carbon removal, framing local participation and local benefits as foundations for stronger projects and lasting political support.