Professional Experience
Founder
CML Consulting, July 2023 – Present
Ensuring values-alignment and purpose communication within and by policy-making, impact-driven, and socially-conscious organizations. Improving communication practices to better the conversations making the world a better place.
Projects and roles include:
- Preparing communication executive for leadership role by providing landscape and media analyses and strategic counsel.
- Developing new methodological approach to uncovering purpose-washing gap indicators and sources of tension.
- Publishing academic articles on the effects of evidence-washing on the international development industry and the role of evidence-based policymaking in implementation discourse.
Research Director
FleishmanHillard TRUE Global Intelligence (TGI), April 2022 – July 2022
Strategic analytics counselor and embedded client manager. Jack-of-most methodologies and industries, including healthcare, government, finance, tech, CPG, pharmaceutical, agriculture, international development, and automotive.
Designed primary research to measure impact, understand audiences, and drive media coverage. Owned competitive analyses, media monitoring, and thought leadership to shape strategy and reputation. Organized, managed, and developed teams to meet client needs- anticipated and otherwise.
Projects and roles included:
- Bridging four client and agency teams as primary point of contact on communication intelligence for a Fortune 500 tech firm. Internal expert on the account’s strategic vision. According to leadership, “[she] does much to keep the incredibly fast-moving and multi-layered [client] in check…guiding clients towards more strategic and effective decisions based on data…which has streamlined a multitude of workstreams on TGI’s largest account.”
- Interviewing 36 decision-makers to 1) strengthen client’s relationship with stakeholders and 2) refine a cross-industry perspective on digital identification. Unified network’s stance with multi-audience message testing.
- Identifying key audiences and messaging considerations in an evolving political and trade climate as primary analyst on a 2-year, $200K, multi-phase project for a commodity export board.
- Programming and field-managing a 37-country, 24-language annual survey as a primary research consultant. Successful data collection drove client visibility with 6,150 owned article/data visualization views and 261 global media citations within two weeks of release.
Multi-year track record of increasing project complexity, team management, and direct client support:
- Senior Research Manager, October 2021 – April 2022
- Research Manager, May 2021 – October 2021
- Research Analyst, June 2019 – May 2021
- Associate Research Analyst, March 2018 – June 2019
- Research and Analytics Intern, August 2017 – March 2018
Federal Affairs Dunn Fellow
Washington, D.C. Office of the Governor of Illinois, August 2016 – July 2017
Analyzed policy issues including education, pensions, and public housing. Investigated state and federal legislation and contributed secondary research to inform executive positioning.
Research Intern
Hudson Institute Center for Political-Military Analysis, October 2015 – October 2016
Supported Director with secondary research, fact checks, and current event analyses. Extensive focus on multilateral defensive relationships and Russian and Chinese diplomatic and military issues.
Conversation Assistant
Fundació Llor Bachillerato School, October 2015 – June 2016
Taught classes in English language, social studies, and literature at a pre-k through secondary school in Spain. Administered tests, incorporated English practice into social activities, and mentored students.
Education
Communication Science MSc
University of Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCOR), 2022-2023
Concentration in Political Communication
Thesis title: ““Evidence-Based Policymaking” & International Development Implementation:
Assessing Effect of the Movement on the Evidence Discourse from the Perspective of Program Managers”
Winner of Digicomlab’s 2023 innovative digital communication research grant
Relevant coursework:
• Shaping Society: How Organizations and the Media Influence Public Issues
• Psychology in Political Communication
• Citizens and Public Opinion
• Journalism and the Media
Data, Economics, and Development Policy MicroMasters
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MITx, 2019-2020
Relevant coursework:
• Political Economy and Economic Development
• The Challenges of Global Poverty
• Designing and Running Randomized Evaluations
• Data Science for Social Scientists
International Relations & Political Science BA
Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies & College of Arts and Sciences, 2012-2015
Honors: Cum Laude, Dean’s List, Dean’s Scholar
Concentrations in International Political Economy and Latin America
Relevant coursework:
• Global Governance and International Organization (PO 384)
• Immigration: History, Politics, Policy (PO 542)
• Latin American Contemporary Issues Seminar (PO 768)
• The Political Economy of China (IR 527)
Extracurricular activities:
• Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, 2012 -2014
• Myles Standish Hall Resident Assistant, 2014 – 2015
• Rugby Football Club, 2014 – 2015
• WBUR Call Center Volunteer, 2012 – 2015
Professional Development
Investigating the Influence Industry Summer School
Tactical Tech, 2021
2-week workshop series on exploring how political actors influence and are influenced.
Foundations of Humane Technology Course
Centre for Humane Technology, 2021
Lecture and event series preparing product teams to incorporate humane principles into development.
Volunteering
Communications and Policy Board Member
Upwardly Global, 2017-2022
Revitalization and Communication Consultant
Lincoln Avenue Urban Trail, 2017-2021
Adult English Language Teacher
Washington English Center, 2016-2017
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