Strategy · Programs · Communications · Research
I’m a creative strategist and communications leader with 9+ years of experience helping mission-driven organizations turn complex work into clear strategy, compelling narrative, and practical systems for action. I’ve partnered with senior leaders to secure major funding, launch programs, reposition organizations, and align teams and partners around high-stakes work. My deepest experience is in climate, but my practice travels across missions: bringing structure, story, and momentum to work that matters.
Shaping direction, priorities, and positioning with senior leadership.
I help organizations clarify direction, align leaders around priorities, and translate big-picture goals into practical strategies, workplans, and decisions. I’m especially strong at seeing the whole system: where mission, resources, and relationships need to come into alignment.
Messaging, editorial, and storytelling that build trust and move audiences to act.
I translate complex work into clear, compelling narratives across brand, messaging, and media, helping organizations explain who they are, why their work matters, and how to make it resonate with the audiences they need to reach.
Turning research and community knowledge into decision-ready insight.
I synthesize research, data, expert input, and lived experience into insights that support strategy, decision-making, and action. My strength is making complex evidence usable: clarifying what is known, what is uncertain, and what it means for the choices people need to make.
Building the plans, systems, and partnerships that move work from idea to delivery.
I build the systems that make ambitious ideas real. Across roles, I’ve managed cross-functional programs, coordinated teams and partners, created planning and tracking systems, and turned ambitious ideas into organized workstreams with clear ownership, timelines, and deliverables.
A few ways I’ve connected the big picture to meaningful change.
01 — Organizational Strategy
An ambitious climate justice vision needed to become concrete enough to fund, staff, partner around, and implement.
02 — Communications
A growing, dynamic national organization had outgrown its public narrative and needed to clarify its identity and place in the behavioral health landscape for the first time in a decade.
03 — Research & Evidence
A rare federal policy window opened space for bold coastal climate action, but to meet the moment, ambition needed to be backed by rigor.
04 — Programs & Operations
Shared ecosystems crossed political borders, while decision-making was spread across two countries, multiple institutions, and nearly 50 partners who needed one coordinated climate adaptation plan.
9+ years at the intersection of evidence, people, and action.
Remote
Recovery Café Network
Led the first reset of organizational positioning, brand, and messaging strategy in a decade, advising senior leadership and program teams on how the organization’s evolving behavioral health model, evidence, and growth strategy should be represented externally.
Built the communications function’s project management system, translating leadership priorities into an annual strategic plan with cross-functional workstreams, timelines, and measures of success.
Remote
Urban Ocean Lab
As an early team member, shaped organizational strategy, annual planning and budgeting, fundraising, monitoring and evaluation, and partnership development.
Translated climate science and policy analysis into audience-specific communications for policymakers, funders, journalists, practitioners, and the public; drafted speeches and talking points for the founder (a TIME100 honoree).
Seattle, WA
UW Climate Impacts Group
Worked with the Executive Director and senior leadership team to turn a five-year vision into a fully funded $5.6M flagship initiative (~25% of operating budget, 6 new positions, 10 partner organizations).
Managed multi-institution portfolios, including a NOAA-funded Tribal Coastal Resilience program with 31 tribes, 4 tribal nonprofits, and 3 academic partners; or Cascadia Transboundary Climate Adaptation Plan, a ~50-member U.S.–Canada collaboration.
Remote
U.S. Global Change Research Program
Author on the Northwest chapter of the congressionally mandated national assessment, contributing on frontline communities, natural resource economies, social systems, and adaptation.
Worked through a rigorous multi-stage federal review — interagency review, public comment, and National Academies expert review — communicating evidence and uncertainty accurately.
New York, NY
Earthjustice
Co-developed a grassroots policy advocacy campaign with 53 community organizations, leading to 2 NY State Senate bills designating community green spaces as Critical Environmental Areas (2023).
Used participatory action research for coalition-building, direct action, and public storytelling, with 2 New York Times features.
New York, NY
NYC Environmental Justice Alliance
Conducted research and created written and visual content for community-led campaigns on just transition, waterfront justice, and climate justice; provided technical assistance and facilitation for member organizations.
I work in the connective tissue of organizations — translating evidence into actionable insight, complex work into compelling stories, and ambitious ideas into the systems, resources, and relationships that make them real.
01 · Strategy
02 · Communications
03 · Research
04 · Programs
Issue areas I work in
Selected policy frameworks, peer-reviewed research, and practical guides.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy & Climigration Network
ReadUrban Ocean Lab
ReadUrban Ocean Lab
Urban Ocean Lab
ReadU.S. Global Change Research Program
UC Berkeley Park Stewardship Forum
ReadCascadia Partner Forum
ReadKing County
Earthjustice
Education
Pratt Institute · 2019
AICP Outstanding Student Award; Pratt Circle Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement
Ateneo de Manila University · 2015
Minor in Communications Technology
Languages
English · Spanish · Filipino
Open to senior roles in strategy, communications, and program leadership at mission-driven organizations.