Environment & Community

In my role at CounterPulse, I design marketing & fundraising strategies to tell the organization’s story to a growing ecology of audiences, artists, and donors. I work closely with artists and community partners to engage the public with rich cultural activities and creative content (e.g. filmmaking, blogs, interviews), while my background in social science research spearheads the organization’s analytics. My work at CounterPulse is underpinned by a deep commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

My E&C education has endowed me with a deeper appreciation for community-led cultural movements. It’s an oversimplification to state I work in marketing. I bring a critical sociopolitical analysis to my work when designing outreach & engagement activities leveraged to underserved populations — lessons learned from E&C’s transdiscplinary curriculum. In my time at the E&C program I was effectively able to tailor my passions into practical skills. My work at CounterPulse uniquely intersects data analysis, narrative research & writing, programming cultural events, and creative visual storytelling. I’ve discovered how attributes of community research and engagement are transmitted in multiple professional and social settings.

My personal and professional goals to make the world a better place have been enhanced by the robust yet iterative education I’ve received in the E&C program. Operating now within an artistic environment and community, I understand how no job description exists in a vacuum. Demographics aren’t numbers. Participation is more than stakeholder engagement. Not everyone has access to digest the stories we generate and send out in emails; and the vast lived experiences of diverse communities should inform how we operate as institutions, as people, as a culture.  E&C was a vital stepping-stone to launching my rewarding professional career.