Program Director • Advisor to Cultural & NonProfit Initiatives • EMMY Award-winning Producer • Partnerships
Drawing on my success as an Emmy Award-winning producer and marketing executive, I help organizations and nonprofits drive growth through PROGRAM initiatives, PARTNERSHIPS and COMMUNICATIONS that build their BRAND and SOCIAL IMPACT. Together we take innovative ideas and give them the strategy, structure, content, partners, and promotions they need to thrive.
My career spans leadership positions in broadcast television at PBS/ WNET GROUP where I helped raise millions for programs and EdTech initiatives — to working with top-media companies (The Jim Henson Co, PBS Kids, and the Tribeca Film Festival) and foundations (Toyota, Intel, Cisco, NSF) plus many GOVT. agencies. My nonprofit work with grant making org, Helping Other People Foundation includes proposal evaluations, and grantee assessment trips to Ethiopia and Peru.
An advocate for “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion,” I’m Senior Advisor & a former Director of LEAP, a women’s leadership acceleration program. • Board Adviser to EdSnaps, a STEM education NPO for female identifying students • Member of the NGO CSW/NY’s Advisory Working Group for Generation Equality, a UN Women’s initiative. • Elected to the Board of Directors of NY Women in Film & TV (3yrs).
Partial AWARDS: National & Regional.
• Emmy – Outstanding Youth Program: “What’s Up in the Environment?”
• Emmy – Outstanding Event Coverage: “Fleetweek”
• Emmy – Outstanding Educational Series: “The Internet in Action”
• Gold World Medal, NY International Film Festival – “Planet H2O”
• Community Outreach Gold, NETA – On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying
• CINE Golden Eagle Award, Power of the Spirit.
Specialties: Strategy | Program Management | Content Strategy & Comms | Business Development | Marketing | Media Production & Relations | Partnerships | External Relations & Govt Relations.
Former Adjunct Professor: New York Institute of Technology (NYIT). Masters in Media Comm (NYIT).
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