I have almost two decades of experience devising and managing the execution of national issue campaigns and driving day-to-day media relations. Media hits are important, but the most fulfilling part of public relations for me is seeing how strategic communications can lead to and sustain high-impact policy changes. A few impactful moments in my career:
Going over talking points with a group of septuagenarian grandparents as they readied a federal complaint against a racially discriminatory school board in a living room in rural Mississippi.
Prepping a nervous Somali worker for an interview with BBCNEWS during the groundbreaking electoral victory in SeaTac, Washington, the first city to enact a $15-per-hour minimum wage in America.
Executing a large-scale response to over 800 incoming constituent and reporter inquiries during the national debate on the Affordable Care Act as a legislative aide in the United States House of Representatives.
With permission, recording and maintaining a database of testimonies given by young women of color and their female identified allies in consciousness-raising discussions to highlight the centrality of young women in the Black Lives Matter movement.
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