About.
Writer, advocate, and manager with expertise in sustainable business, media trends, online communications, political campaigns, journalism, grassroots organizing, and the Internet industry.
With a background as a journalist and campaign and project manager, I have been working most recently as Communications, Development, and Office Manager at the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute in San Francisco, a non-profit organization dedicated to guiding manufacturers in making safe, healthy products. Cradle to Cradle® is an all-encompassing framework for sustainability that posits that the human economy can be a restorative force for the planet, and touches on almost every area of sustainability, including energy, material health, water stewardship, and reuse.
From 2008 to 2011, I worked for the civil rights movement as a part of the Media and Democracy Coalition and the UCC Office of Communications Inc. Through Congressional and FCC advocacy, I worked towards the following causes: reducing media consolidation, protecting freedom of speech through regulation of the Internet as a public thruway, and increasing funding for public media.
We successful won federal proposals to solve the digital divide (including a project that won a $11.8 million broadband grant for the city of Philadelphia); organizing support for net neutrality; and aided the development of a National Broadband Plan that reflects the importance of equitable Internet access.
As a journalist I have worked as a general assignment reporter for several publications (including daily newspapers, online magazines, and business publications) and as a beat reporter covering education, local government, healthcare, labor, and business. As a political consultant in Pennsylvania I developed and executed communications and grassroots organizing strategies for local political candidates and causes, with specialties in earned-media and online communication. I am a fellow of the Poynter Institute’s Sense-Making Project for Media Innovators, and have spoken on media issues to the Internet Society, Women in Film and Video, NetSquared Philadelphia, and others.
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