Résumé

No One Left Behind

Director, Communications and Marketing · Arlington, VA · Sep 2025 to present

National nonprofit supporting Afghan and Iraqi wartime allies through resettlement assistance and advocacy.

• Conceived and ran Day 1,827, the campaign for the fifth anniversary of the fall of Kabul (August 2026), with 17 ally stories, each approved by the ally, and a longform piece carrying the advocacy asks; August online gifts reached $73,000, up 35% from $54,000 in 2025, and August Facebook views rose 144.8%.
• Directed the public response to the November 2025 shooting of two National Guard members in Washington by an Afghan national, six days before Giving Tuesday: published a statement on Thanksgiving, the day after, that led with the victims and drew 89,301 Facebook views; coordinated six executive director interviews, including The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; kept the shooter's immigration history to background briefings; and reworked year-end messaging around the news.
• Directed the rebuild of nooneleft.org from Wix to Webflow with an outside firm, launched October 19, 2026 with a brand refresh of three logo lockups and a six-color palette, separate paths for allies seeking help and for supporters, and search-optimized copy; when launch traffic passed the site's 50 GB monthly bandwidth in three days, cut the home page from about 33 MB to 11 MB with no visible change.
• Serve as primary media contact, coordinating interviews with 17 news organizations, including CNN, NBC, The Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press, and helping place a board member's letter to the editor in The Washington Post; ran strategy for an April 2026 story on reported talks to send Afghan allies waiting in Qatar to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which quoted NOLB in The New York Times.
• Directed press for a January 2026 Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the vetting of Afghan parolees, writing the advance release, pitch, and post-hearing statement and coordinating on the executive director's statement for the record; pitched 50 reporters, and all three stories that ran, in Stars and Stripes, Task & Purpose, and KPBS, came from the pitch list and quoted the executive director.
• Wrote and designed the 2025 Annual Report in-house in digital and print editions (March 2026), credited by name by leadership.
• Moved donor email from CharityEngine, where about 101,000 contacts sat across about 100 overlapping lists, to Mailchimp: verified the migration filters, suppressed about 4,300 invalid addresses to leave about 62,400 contacts, and warmed the new domain until a send to 7,633 lapsed donors landed 99.1% delivered with one spam complaint; in August 2026, leadership credited the move with better deliverability and part of the year's revenue strength.
• Wrote the Crisis Communications Media Guide (February 2026) and the master voice guide (July 2026), and set Q1 2026 messaging standards that moved all channels from evacuation-era language to sustainment and resettlement.
• Led social media strategy that generated 6.6 million Facebook views from September 2025 to October 2026, with content interactions up 151% on Meta's prior-period comparison, and 532,000 LinkedIn impressions at 4.6% to 11.9% engagement.
• Run the newsroom on nooneleft.org: 51 pieces published since October 2025, including 25 stories, 9 action alerts, 8 news releases, and 7 statements.

Sanctum Federal

Communications Strategist (Contract) · Remote / Fairfax, VA · Jan 2023 to Aug 2025

Consulting firm advising companies that sell to the federal government.

• Translated federal procurement rules, budget cycles, and continuing resolutions into plain-language content for clients selling to the federal government, generating more than 1,000 qualified business-development contacts.
• Wrote, scripted, and hosted a video training series on federal operations, budgets, and compliance for newly hired staff from client firms.

United States Army

Public Affairs Specialist and Noncommissioned Officer in Charge · Worldwide · Feb 2017 to Jan 2023

• Led the public affairs team at USAG Humphreys in South Korea, assigning and editing work to meet clearance and publication deadlines while supporting Eighth Army leaders through North Korean escalation cycles and COVID operations.
• Designed a public affairs training curriculum for a Signal School detachment, preparing junior enlisted Soldiers with no prior writing background to produce publishable journalism.
• Wrote and edited command communications under classification review, translating operational information into releasable materials for senior leaders and the public.
• Covered the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade at Illesheim and U.S. and Georgian predeployment training at Hohenfels, Germany (2018).