Six years of turning complicated, often heavy human rights work into things people actually engage with — stories that get covered, campaigns that get funded, brands people remember. I came up through communications and fundraising for mission-driven organizations, and I'm now carrying that same instinct for clarity into atrocity-prevention research.
If there's a thread, it's this: I've never been satisfied just understanding something — I want other people to care about it too. What follows is the impact, the roles behind it, and the specific skills I picked up making that happen.
Because impact is easier to feel than to describe.
The clear-cut version — the skills underneath all of the above. I'm a generalist on purpose: the story decides the tool.
Newest first. Read it as one long argument for why substance and storytelling belong in the same room.
The pivot I'd been building toward: bringing a communicator's instincts to atrocity-prevention scholarship, and refusing to treat rigor and accessibility as a trade-off.
Owned media relations and events for a leading human rights organization — the job where I learned how to make rigorous, uncomfortable research land squarely in the news cycle.
Came back to ICRD as a consultant to partner with leadership on fundraising and strategic communications during a pivotal stretch.
Led the organization's brand and communications, modernizing how a serious, decades-old institution actually showed up to the world.
My first real comms role — supporting member communications and digital outreach, and learning early that a "boring" newsletter is usually just an unclear one.
Pitched, won, and ran an original community peacebuilding project from concept to delivery — my first taste of owning something end to end.
Coordinated recruitment and programming for a national public-interest communications fellowship — and got quietly hooked on the whole field in the process.
Cut my teeth on advocacy storytelling in national health policy — and learned, once and for all, that a single real voice can move a hearing in a way a stack of statistics can't.
Eight roles, one stubborn idea: the most important work in the world still has to be communicated to matter. That's the throughline — and exactly where I'm taking it next.
Auschwitz Institute Fellow.
Honors · Highest Distinction.
Honors program.
Numbers and titles only tell half of it. The other half is the work itself.