Professional Experience

Sharing Our Roots
Communications Manager / November 2024 - present
Communications Coordinator / March 2023 - November 2024

Design and implement strategic communications to promote 501(c)(3) agricultural nonprofit that supports a commons-based cohort of 200+ immigrant, BIPOC, and queer farmers gain land access. Responsible for brand maintenance and accountable for the creation, coordination, and distribution of communications, including:

• Design high-quality print and digital materials, including annual reports, farm signage, program overviews, donor outreach materials, and organizational brochures.

• Lead organizational storytelling through engaging blog posts, press releases, email newsletters, social media posts, and event publicity.

• Write and submit press releases to local and national media outlets, maintain relationships with journalists, and provide organizational quotes and media tours.

• Track metrics to better inform communications strategy, as well as regularly update SOR style guide.

• Curate, design, write, and send monthly email newsletters.

• Build, revise, and maintain sharing-our-roots.org website. Full website rebuild in September 2023.

• Oversee all internal & consultant-based communications projects, track progress, and communicate accurate timelines and expectations.

• Support development efforts through creating infographics, promoting fundraisers, writing engaging copy, and collecting data for grant reporting.

• Create and track yearly comms budget, while participating in whole-org budget conversations.

• Supervise student interns and volunteers in a supportive, educational, and mutually beneficial experience.

• Support organizational culture by both participating in and providing design support to monthly sociocracy-based Guiding Circle meetings.

Frogtown Farm
Permaculture Steward / Grants Manager, June 2022 - February 2023
Responsible for Frogtown Farm's permaculture perennial food forest, including a small orchard of fruit trees. Implement restoration plan and ensure that work aligns with sustainable agriculture and permaculture principles. In off season, write and submit grant applications for general operating support of 501(c)(3) organization, with over $95,000 secured in general operating support for the 2023 season.

Great River Montessori School
Communications Manager & Graphic Designer, September 2016 - June 2022

Build, curate, and maintain all aspects of graphic design & communications for a 3,000+ person community. Act as a one-person department of a public charter, urban-farm Montessori school during 200% enrollment expansion (300 students in 2016 - 900 students in 2022) and COVID-19 pandemic.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Create a range of print and digital communications materials that align with organizational priorities and project plans, including website graphics, school logos, marketing materials, social media graphics, and newsletter design.

• Implement and manage content calendar, while acting as funnel which all external and internal communications flow through. Responsible for copy-editing and sending all external messages. See example of fully clickable content calendar here.

• Manage Squarespace website and blog, resulting in a 120% increase in readership. Responsible for rebranding and building new website in 2018. Create custom RSS feed for blog posts sent daily to 2,000+ emails.

• Develop and post engaging content and visuals 5x/weekly to social media platforms, resulting in a 300% increase in followers on Instagram, Facebook, & YouTube.

• Create content & graphics for weekly and monthly Mailchimp newsletters, including interviewing stakeholders, ghostwriting articles, and maintaining electronic contact lists.

• Develop and implement dynamic communications strategy, including branding creation and management.

• Ghost-write external communications, including leadership and emergency external communications.

• Collaborate across teams to successfully navigate project logistics and deadlines, such as managing marketing for a commercial kitchen pop-up business, or communicating learning model shifts during COVID-19 pandemic.

Supplemental Roles:

Advise Gender & Sexuality Alliance (GSA) student group by organizing regular community fundraisers, all-ages drag shows, and other opportunities for students to connect with older queer mentors and give mentorship to younger students in GSA. Meet with students weekly and support student leadership in developing activism skills.

Teach adolescent Health classes, including sexuality education (using OWL curriculum), and folk skill classes (fermentation, chicken care) using a Community Expert teaching license.

D.E.I. Workshop Facilitator
Freelance, March 2015 - present

Facilitate diversity training and provide consulting for organizations and schools working to support their gender-creative community members. Design original digital graphics and presentations. Specialization in faculty development, healthcare disparities, and adolescent gender identity. Experience working with higher education faculty, professional consortiums, and special education consultant groups.

St. Catherine University Abigail Q. McCarthy Center for Women & Mission
Research Assistant, May 2014 - August 2015 / / Program Assistant, Nov 2016 - Oct 2017

Organize research conferences, faculty development discussions, and other feminist and mission-centered programming, specifically around issues of racism, white supremacy culture, gender identity, and queerness. Design graphics, flyers, and newsletters. Conduct scholarly research for tenured professors and map archival material.

Planned Parenthood, Minnesota South Dakota North Dakota
Patient Services Coordinator/Gender-Creative Specialist, Oct 2015 - Nov 2016

Understand and convey federal and state regulations regarding access to abortion care. Maintain the highest standard of patient confidentiality and HIPAA compliance. Work with private and public insurance companies and communicate with patients regarding coverage. Work specifically with gender-creative individuals to support their access to reproductive healthcare.

Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG)
Board of Directors Member, September 2013 - August 2015
Field Organizer, Nov 2012 - April 2014

Work on statewide political organizing campaigns for issues of curbside composting, student loan forgiveness, and gay marriage advocacy. Meet weekly fundraising quotas and track financial sustainability of the field canvass. Maintain donor database and report financial health to Board of Directors.