Teacher Support Network: Currently the Digital Media Manager for this organization. Some highlights:

• Teachersupport.info, a news, fundraising and support service website for educators in England, Scotland and Wales, winner for  Best Use of the Web in 2009.
• Recourse, a website aimed at provided news and services for HE and FE faculty and staff in post-16 education in UK.
• Staffwise, an information and online assessment tool for organizational wellbeing in Scottish schools and local authorities.
• Great Teachers, a website highlighting teachers’ roles in our lives and society.

I also manage the group of charities’ digital media strategy, which includes social networking strategy, search engine optimization and Google adwords campaigns among other things.

Movement Studio: This is the business name I and another online media colleague, Dave Reed, operate under for our various freelance endeavors. To learn more about Movement Studio, click here. I offer consulting and services in the following areas:

• Web design
• Print design
• Logos and branding
• Media strategy
• Research projects
• Campaign strategies
• Issue framing
• Using open source alternatives and utilizing new media tools
• Freelance writing projects
• Freelance editing projects
• Freelance photography

Previously

Projects have included:

• Website redesign for International Trauma Treatment Program
• Website redesign for the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice
• New website for the International Solidarity Movement
• Media campaigns for the International Solidarity Movement
• Media campaign assistance for the Rebuilding Alliance
• Research for Prof. Steve Niva of The Evergreen State College
• Helped co-found The Olympia+Rafah Sister City Project.

Other Careers

• Copy editor for The Olympian, a daily newspaer in Olympia, WA.
• Reporter/section editor for Sound Publishing, a weekly and twice-weekly newspaper chain in Northwest Washington state
• Reporter for The Hermiston Herald, a weekly newspaper in Eastern Oregon
• English as a second language teacher at Elite Foreign Language Institute, Andong South Korea and Amideast language center in Rabat, Morocco.
• Web developer for Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice

Studies

• BA in journalism and mass media at The Evergreen State College
• ESL teaching accreditation through International House

Volunteer Efforts

For many of these organizations and efforts, I’ve been a board member, contract worker or coordinator and have remained involved since as a volunteer. You live in the world, that can’t be helped. Participating makes it more interesting. I continue to do these things as I find the time for free:

• Olympia+Rafah Sister City Project volunteer for online projects (former board member and board president)
• International Solidarity Movement online media consultant
• International Trauma Treatment Program advisory board member
• Rebuilding Alliance technical consultant and occasional online media volunteer
• Rachel Corrie Foundation volunteer and online media consultant
• Contributor to CounterPunch and Electronic Intifada

Contact

To get a full version of the CV with dates and references and more specific information, contact me via the form on this website.