Job Descriptions

While micro-management can be frustrating, there are very important landmarks within the human resource frame that create a context for how a professional relationship can move forward. Leaders need to maximize every opportunity they have to share their vision and relay their expectations. The job description is one of the Read more…

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Internal Communications

Management information structure is vital to an agile team working in dynamic environments. How we communicate is a strong indicator of how we operate. Embedded within that information structure is internal communications. Practical experience and research correlate team functionality with performance and efficacy. The samples included illustrate my style in Read more…

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Audience Development

Communications with patrons is vital to growing audiences. There are multiple strategies which can be employed for positive interactions that work toward deepening patron engagement with the arts and, ultimately, any event-based, process-oriented workflow within organizational life. In working as a series manager and strategic communications director, I worked through Read more…

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Programs

Programs for performances and events serve a multiple purposes: they provide pertinent information for participating in the experience; they offer an opportunity to further relationships; and they make great takeaways for developing more audiences. The sample program offered comes from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s University Performing Arts Read more…

Applied Theatre

Applied theatre as an art form and a process, have long been a part of my artistic aesthetic; the creation and development of work borne from this approach is authentic, engaging and beneficial for building trust, increasing security, touching upon diversity of needs and fostering an environment to find mutually Read more…

Book Reviews

One of the major ways I have been contributing to research development in peace and conflict studies, educational reform and performance studies has been through book reviews, published in academic journals. The work done in book reviews creates a context for a particular piece of literature as it relates to Read more…

Research Proposal

Research is a pivotal part of academic life and serves to connect the academic industry with the forward-facing practical elements within any field. This speaks to an essential tension that exists within arts-based practice: how do artists validate their findings, recreate their projects and gauge their effectiveness? It also touches Read more…

Strategic Planning

An area where I consistently exhibit strength is strategic planning. My work as Strategic Communications Director with the College of Visual and Performing Arts at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro grew out of initial observations of this strength; it became clear that I had a knack for identifying Read more…

Grants

I have been involved in writing for quite some time, and within the past decade, have consulted on grant proposals and written some myself. In addition to this practical experience, I have formal training in grant writing through my Post-Baccalaureate in Nonprofit Management. The first sample is an actual proposal Read more…