I help mission-driven
organizations find their
true story.
For nearly 15 years, I've worked at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, and social change.
From city government to national political campaigns, inside nonprofits, and across the arts, I lead communications in high-stakes environments where clarity isn't optional and trust is hard-won.
My story begins in rehearsal rooms.
As a theater artist, I spent years holding a whole production in mind at once: Knowing how to structure a space to encourage individual creativity while steering each artist toward a shared vision, how one actor's authenticity ripples through an ensemble, how a single bold action can shift the meaning of everything that follows.
That instinct shapes everything I do.
Strategic Communications
As Communications Director and Public Information Officer for Metro Nashville's Office of Arts and Culture, I led communications for a multi-million dollar public arts portfolio, grew constituent engagement by 329%, and rebuilt the agency's earned media presence from the ground up.
I navigated multiple high-visibility crises without losing the public trust we'd worked to build, working directly alongside the Mayor's office, elected officials, philanthropic leaders, and community organizations. I know exactly what it costs when an organization can't communicate clearly under pressure, and what becomes possible when it can.
Community Organizing
As Organizing Director for the Democratic Party of Georgia during the 2024 presidential election, I built field infrastructure across 14 rural counties, managed a team of seven, engaged 1,800+ volunteers, and helped hold Georgia's margin to 2.2% in the battleground map.
Translating national strategy into local trust, county by county, relationship by relationship, is some of the most demanding communications work that exists. I know how to do it.
Training and Facilitation
Earlier in my career, as a trainer and speaker with Rachel's Challenge, I facilitated ten distinct trauma-informed programs to more than 45,000 students and educators annually across the United States. I piloted professional development curriculum, coached a national team of facilitators, and arrived at something foundational:
The most powerful communication doesn't happen to people. It happens with them. You create the conditions. They find the truth inside it.
Business Development
Before any of that, I built something from the ground up. Unity Yoga Room started as an idea and became a thriving wellness community — 150+ members, a team of 15 instructors, and a fully accredited 200-hour teacher training program. I earned trauma-informed facilitation certifications in movement, meditation, and mindfulness, and developed corporate wellness curriculum for organizational clients.
Running that studio demanded every skill I now bring to consulting: building culture from scratch, developing people, designing programs that work for diverse learners, and producing experiences that make something real happen in a room. It also made viscerally clear that the work of building community — whether in a yoga studio, a campaign field office, or a rehearsal room — is always, at its root, the same work.
Clarity is a practice.
I’ve found that across different rooms, with different stakes, and different vocabularies the work is the same:
Find what's true, create the conditions for it to surface, and make sure it doesn't leave when you do.
The organizations doing the most powerful work aren’t always the ones communicating it most clearly. The gap between the quality of an organization's work and how that work travels in the world is almost always a strategy problem, not a content problem.
That's the gap I close.
When a campaign isn't landing or a message keeps getting misunderstood, when an organization can't seem to close the gap between what it does and what funders understand about it, I move upstream and ask questions until I find the disconnect.
I help you build a cohesive narrative strategy that your whole team can carry and that your community, and your funders, can get behind.
Work With Me
Jackson House Creative is the house I've built for this work: a home for consulting, facilitation, and the arts, united by a single conviction: narrative clarity is a transformative practice for organizations and communities alike.
If any of this sounds like the conversation your organization needs to have, I'd love to talk. The best engagements are with organizations that have some execution capacity on staff and leaders who are ready to think, not just produce.
The story is already there. Let's find it together.