In 2022, the Brennan Center for Justice needed help launching a new newsletter and resource—State Court Report—to bring attention to state courts and constitutions. The reason: while public attention is typically focused on the U.S. Supreme Court, increasingly, state constitutions are the source of strengthened individual rights on issues such as environmental quality, gender equality, and economic liberty.

I stepped in to manage all aspects of the launch, working with Brennan staff and vendors. This included building the website, establishing editorial systems and an impact-tracking framework. I then developed and executed an ongoing audience-growth strategy, including newsletter development, partnership cultivation, and cross-sector outreach to legal practitioners, law schools, and civic organizations.

State Court Report now reaches more than 50,000 subscribers and has drawn over a million website visitors, establishing itself as a national resource on state constitutional rights. I continue to lead audience-engagement strategy and partnership development for the publication.

Editorial strategy, audience engagement, partnership development

Colorado Media Project launched in 2018 as a first-of-its-kind statewide initiative to strengthen local news and civic information across Colorado. As founding director, I built the organization with community leaders — developing strategy, governance, and fundraising infrastructure, and securing $1.5 million in initial philanthropic commitments. I oversaw partnerships with libraries, universities, media outlets, and civic organizations, and managed consultant teams to develop programs on arts and culture, membership development, public policy, and more.

The project helped catalyze collaborative journalism funding and community-driven news initiatives that continue across the state.

Program design & launch, fundraising, coalition-building, strategic communications

The Associated Press's Democracy Initiative sought to extend the reach of AP's election journalism to local and nonprofit news organizations that lack the resources to access it directly. As program manager, I worked with internal teams to develop a content delivery program that reached more than 200 local and nonprofit news outlets in key states, driving more than 10,000 content downloads and 5,000 image requests during the 2024 election cycle.

The role required sustained cross-functional coordination — aligning editorial, technical, and funder priorities across departments — as well as external partnership management. For example, I worked with the American Press Institute on a national webinar series providing journalist training ahead of the election.

Philanthropy, stakeholder coordination

NYU’s Cybersecurity for Democracy conducted rigorous research on digital platform transparency and political advertising. As strategic communications lead, I translated complex technical research into accessible public-facing narratives for the project’s website, newsletter, and publications, and served as product manager for the Ad Observatory, a searchable tool tracking political advertising on social media.

When a major social media company challenged the project’s research, I managed brand reputation and crisis communication. I developed talking points, testimony, opinion pieces and more.  The work helped shape public and policy debate on platform transparency at a pivotal moment for the field.

Strategic communications, product management, & policy advocacy support

In 2026, in response to cuts in federal funding, Colorado Media Project is supporting a coalition of public media and rural and local stations to imagine how to strengthen collaboration in the state.

I worked with Colorado Public Radio, Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting, and Rocky Mountain Community Radio, to develop grant proposals in response to an opportunity from Press Forward. These grants will support collaborative coverage of state government, as well as digital tools to increase efficiencies in how content is shared.

Grant writing

Small nonprofits and media organizations increasingly want to reach audiences on Instagram, TikTok, and other creator-driven platforms — but most lack the budget to work with digital agencies, and the landscape of Colorado-based creators working on civic and social issues was largely unmapped.

I authored an original field report documenting the Colorado digital creator landscape, developing a taxonomy for how to understand their positions in the landscape. The report was published in February 2026 in partnership with Colorado Media Project. Read the report.

Landscape research

In 2018, the Aspen Institute and Knight Foundation convened a high-level bipartisan commission to examine eroding public trust in media and develop recommendations for funders and institutional leaders seeking to counter these trends. The commission needed a way to gather and synthesize public input — not just from experts in the room, but from citizens and practitioners across the country.

I designed and managed the public engagement strategy, launching and editing an online publication on Medium that brought the commission’s work to a broader audience and created a channel for public response. I developed synthesis of the commission’s deliberations, summarized research, and moderated public comments.

The commission’s final report and recommendations informed funding strategies across the journalism and civic information sector at a moment when the question of how to rebuild trust in news was moving to the center of philanthropic strategy.

Editorial design & implementation, public engagement 

Heading into the 2020 election, local journalists were on the front lines of a disinformation crisis — facing coordinated manipulation campaigns, viral rumors, and platform dynamics. They needed training on how to track and report responsibly on algorithmic deception.

I designed and managed First Draft’s 2020 Local News Fellowship, a five-state initiative that trained local journalists to identify, investigate, and counter online disinformation in their own communities. The program combined curriculum development, mentorship, and on-the-ground reporting support across Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

As part of this work, I co-authored Misinformation in Your Backyard, a field guide distilling insights from the fellowship into practical guidance for journalists and news organizations. The report was published by First Draft and has served as a resource for journalists and trainers working on election integrity and local disinformation response.

Program design & management, curriculum development, journalist training