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Over two decades of working with high-profile high-impact teams and projects, ground-level collaborations, national partnerships, and deep media experience. Based in the southeast and producing social impact projects and narratives for arts, media, equitable placemaking, conservation, public lands, and cultural institutions. Public historian and citizen-archivist. Authentic and adaptive creative thinker.
Social Impact Resident Artist
Artist-At-Work , The Office of Performing Arts + Film. 2022-2023
Inspired by the Depression-era Works Progress Administration, AAW is a new program designed to give artists resources to continue to produce work during the immediate health and economic crisis brought by COVID, and to build new structures and partnerships that will help to sustain the creative sector in a post-pandemic America. Through a year-long residency that including 6 months with Sequatchie Cove Farm, a 4-generation family farm in the Tennessee Valley, and 6 with the Southeast Tennessee Young Farmers Coalition, conducting research and engagement concerning the connection between soil-food-climate, land access, and food justice. Projects in development can be found here.
Responsible for managing various communications and outreach projects for nonprofit in support of its mission to champion the conservation of the natural, historic, and cultural resources of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, including Moccasin Bend National Archeological District.
Programs & Projects Manager
National Park Partners
12/2018 - 10/2021
Responsible for creating weekly blog and monthly newsletter content for nonprofit focused on community-led artist-driven equitable community development and creative placemaking. Press releases. media relations and photography.
Communications Manager
Glass House Collective
8/2018 - 3/2021
Public Relations Manager
Chattanooga Public Library
10/2012 – 3/2018
Responsible for media and public relations for award winning public library with an emphasis on the institution's innovative 21st century services, partners, spaces and events. Key role in multiple high profile pilot initiatives included project leadership and national partner management. Promotion and program development of the 4th Floor, a first-of-its-kind maker space, public laboratory, and educational facility with a focus on information, design, technology, and the applied arts. Co-founder, event, and community partnership manager for the annual independent publishing festival, Chattanooga Zine Fest. Media and feature writing across multiple platforms. Website content creation, editing and management; social media management, photography and special projects documentation. Editor of library public events calendar. Brand management. Contributing writer to Library Journal and Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Blog.
Feature Writer, Photographer
Nooga.com
1/2011- 9/2012
Arts features writer for a new online media company and daily news source during the project launch. Focus on arts, entertainment, local food, neighborhoods, human interest, and profiles. Responsible for the daily development of story ideas and sources, research and reporting, interviews, and writing. Web-based content management system, photojournalism, and social media.
Writer, Director, Producer
Independent Productions
2005-2011
Direct, write and produce independent documentaries including commissions. Exhibit preparation and execution. Fundraising, Social Media, Vendor Relations, Scouting, Community Engagement. Commercial work includes direct response television marketing and production. Original projects included gallery and festival premieres: "One Road," which co-premiered at the Nashville Film Festival and the Loeb Place Making Conference at Harvard University; the Allied Arts-funded "Higher Ground- Common Ground"; and "And The Iron Did Swim," the CreateHere MakeWork-funded solo photography exhibition at Tanner Hill Gallery. Commercial work includes direct response television marketing and production.
Newsroom Assignment Editor
WDSI-TV News
2002-2004
Manage newsroom assignment desk for two live broadcasts. Daily crew assignments, establishing sources and leads. Develop and execute workflow improvements in a fast-paced and changing workplace. News website executive producer. Recipient Fiscal Innovators Award.
Advertising Agency Project Manager
The Johnson Group
2000-2002
Client services and project management responsibilities including overseeing efficiencies and timelines for assigned creative teams, workflow management, budget coordination, project and print production management, traffic and proofreading, tracking and scheduling, daily team meetings, and reports. Recipient Professional Excellence Award.
Marketing Director
Bluff View Art District
1996-2000
Marketing and special events management for City’s high-end art district dedicated to the visual, horticultural, and culinary arts. Marketing communications planning, creation, and execution; corporate sponsor development, media buying, public relations. Site liaison with Chattanooga Convention and Visitors Bureau and visiting travel writers including assignments with Turner South and HGTV.
Continuity Director
WDEF-FM/AM
1992-1994
Writer and producer radio advertising. Production management and traffic. Wrote and co-produced the station's award-winning television advertising campaign. On-air special assignments and commercial voice-over talent. Recipient of Bronze Addy Award from Chattanooga Advertising Federation.
National Director, Video Promotion
Virgin Records America
1989-1991
Artist Promotion and representation. Field producer and project coordinator for special projects with MTV News and MTV Networks affiliate networks and original programs including UnPlugged, 120 Minutes, Club MTV, Video Music Awards, and VH1-to-One. New York City and Los Angeles.
Promotion Coordinator
WHTZ FM – Z-100
1984-1989
Media and sales promotions coordination and execution. On-air guest talent with the #1 Arbitron rated Morning Drive Show in NYC - “Z Morning Zoo”. Artists/label liaison. High profile street team for world premiere events in New York metro area top venues.