advocacy & media

wide-ranging advocacy and media experience at global, national, and local levels as a writer, presenter, interviewee, and video producer

how i can support you

How do you translate what you have learned by directly serving children and families to advocate with key stakeholders ? How do you disseminate and facilitate the adoption of knowledge uniquely tailored to key audiences?
How can you promote active engagement by crafting and sharing compelling messages tailored to specific audiences? How can you meaningfully engage the public and change underlying social norms to secure the expansion of laws and policies? How can you integrate rational framing with inter-personal empathy?
How can you strengthen strategies to amplify the voices of children, youth, and families and engage them as partners and leaders?
How can collaboration accelerate progress towards your goals? Whom should you partner with? How should you do it, and what resources do you need? How can you partner across sectors (nonprofit, government, academia, foundations, private sector)?

examples

Click on screen to watch interview excerpt

While overseeing UNICEF’s work with religious communities, I was interviewed as part of the Micah Challenge, a global initiative engaging communities of faith to eradicate poverty. While at UNICEF, I also represented the organization at high level meetings and advised senior leadership, including working closely with the Special Representative for the United Nations Secretary-General on Violence Against Children, and traveling throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

Click on screen to watch testimony at the New York City Council on the importance of school stability for children in foster care.

Represented one of largest foster care agencies in the United States with key partners in government, civil society, and academia, including media appearances and testimony at New York City Council public hearings.

Click on screen to watch LeaderStories.org interview during Aspen Institute Fellowship

Aspen Institute Fellowship as part of the American Express Leadership Academy for Nonprofit Leaders. This values-based leadership development program strengthens the capacity of fifteen accomplished nonprofit leaders annually. The fellows represent a talented cohort of executives and management level nonprofit professionals and social entrepreneurs working in organizations that enrich communities and tackle pressing social issues.

Click on screen to watch Spectrum News NY 1 television interview.

short video productions

I have produced advocacy/awareness raising products, such as short video productions, for programs I have designed and led. Click below to watch sample videos.

Celebrating middle school, high school, and college graduates in foster care during the midst of Covid.

Spotlighting Washington D.C. trip by youth in foster care

Highlighting parents with children in foster care.

advisory roles