At the Trust
I care about public policy issues ranging from health care to education to water quality to homelessness. That’s why I’ve spent years helping nonprofits and foundations tell their stories. My work includes creating communications strategies to advance the work of the Trust and our grantees, supporting grantees’ communications capacity, and making the world of philanthropy understandable to everyone.
My Proudest Accomplishment
I led the Trust team in planning and executing the Trust’s statewide 75th anniversary events and announcement that the foundation would divest from tobacco and commit to socially responsible investing. I am proud of the trust we built with grantees and community members through this work, and I hope our foundation’s leadership in this space will continue to encourage other organizations on the journey of truth, repair and transformation.
Before I Got Here
- Vice President, Community Media Workshop, a Chicago-area nonprofit
- Communications Director and Editor, Minnesota 2020, a public policy think tank
- Senior Account Executive, Valerie Denney Communications, a public interest public relations firm in Chicago
Education and Awards
- Executive Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership, Duke University
- Edwin J. Shaughnessy’s Quality of Life Award from the Publicity Club of Chicago for media work around police torture in Chicago
- Leadership Winston-Salem, Class of 2017
- Hull Fellows Leadership Program Graduate
- Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
When the Day is Done
I serve on the Board of Directors of Leadership Winston-Salem and the North Carolina Local News Lab Fund, and can’t get enough of the North Carolina sunshine. My husband RT and I love raising our two children, Trey and Margot, in the Tar Heel state.
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