Setting Precedents – Creating Change

  • Leading a team at Snohomish Conservation District in creating the initial framework for an agricultural index of floodplain health in Snohomish County.

  • Exceeding goals for child sponsorship in Chitul Guatemala by 30% with Bellingham First Presbyterian Church.

  • Conducting outreach and partnership development that resulted in meeting census goals with a waiting list at Beacon House within six months.

  • Organizing and implementing the Alzheimer’s Association’s signature fundraising event, the “Walk to End Alzheimer’s” in Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties where we exceeded fundraising goals in Monterey for the first time in five years. (click here for video).

  • Conducting a successful top to bottom overhaul of all the communications collateral at the Stanford-based Center for Ocean Solutions to tell their story in clear and inspiring language.

  • Acting as the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA’s) de facto “Goodwill Ambassador” to transform our image from that of a detested regulatory agency to a partner in protecting Lake Tahoe by building community trust which resulted in support for passage of the 2012 Lake Tahoe Regional Plan – a 20-year endeavor.  

  • Organizing project-specific media events with local and regional media outlets involving multiple agency partners which resulted in increasing public awareness, agency trust, support for our mission, and front-page news coverage.

  • Pioneering the use of coalition outreach campaigns for PBS station KCTS/Seattle and coordinating the then-largest outreach effort of 70 local, state, and national partners where we developed a foster-care information clearinghouse that was later adopted by the State of Washington. 

  • Creating a community outreach campaign for the Wentachi Indians of the Colville Confederated Tribes around the PBS documentary, “False Promises: The Lost Land of the Wentachi,” that helped re-establish the tribe’s long-lost fishing rights.

  • Developing outreach for singer/songwriter Danny O’Keefe (“Goodtime Charlie’s Got the Blues”) and the Songbird Foundation that resulted in front-page media coverage and increased public awareness of sustainable coffee issues.

  • Organizing a successful coalition that altered how the US Forest Service imposed trail fees from one that disproportionately hurt local low-income families to one following Congressional intent for a fair fee-for-service system.