ENTREPRENEUR & COMMUNITY ORGANIZER

My enchantment with media began long before I learned how to read. I traveled the world with books and magazines and met the most interesting characters who taught me how magical and adventurous life could be. I can say that I am truly blessed to have visited many of the places I saw only in pictures and stories when I was a child, from the Andes to the Himalayas to Alaska’s Chugach range and the moonscape canyons of the American Southwest.

What I never would have known back then, is that I get to adventure travel through my clients in the same way, still. I insist on learning about a client’s origin story as the prelude to the 5- to 15-year plans they envision. In this, I get to learn how it is to have dedicated a lifetime to their passion, their journey of discovery and sometimes adversity, and how to help them help others from their perspective.

From the board room to the back office and backstage, the store front to the research lab and kitchen table start-up in nearly every industry, the volume and sheer diversity of experiences I have had working with clients big and small is a privilege and a pleasure… and keeps me in a constant state of curious anticipation and appreciation for what’s next.

25+ Years in the Communication Arts

I’ve designed, photographed and/or directed campaigns for clients — corporate to mom & pop, non-profits to municipalities to cabaret singers — including M&M/Mars, Queens Council on the Arts, LOGO Channel, Sierra Club, Town of Southampton, Costume Designer Eric Winterling, Tony-Award Winning Sound Designer Clive Goodwin, Pioneering Executive Coach Trisha Scudder and Plus-Size Model Emme, others listed below and more.

I’ve also organized and/or photographed events featuring entrepreneurs and executives, filmmakers and playwrights, authors, artists and athletes at venues big and small, including MoMA, Asia Society & Museum, American Folk Art Museum and various galleries, boardrooms and backyards as Co-Founding Board Member of LYNX, The Women’s Network of Out Professionals, the largest and longest running LGBTQ networking organization based in New York City and as an invited Forming Member of the LGBTQ Committee of the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.

CLIENTS

Emmy Award-Winning Sound Designer Clive Goodwin; Award-Winning Broadway Costume Designer Eric Winterling; Jazz Vocalist Deb De Lucca; Stony Brook University Archeology Department; Village of Port Jefferson; Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter; GLAAD; LOGO Channel; NYC LGBT Community Center; The Robin Hood Foundation; M&M/Mars, The Valley Hospital (NJ), Stevens Institute of Technology (NJ), Kinney Shoes, Nature Magazine, Excursions Magazine (Hirsch Publications); WIG (Women In General) Magazine; Dish Restaurant (NJ), The Red Cross (Northern NJ); Plus-Size Supermodel Emme; Corrective Chiropractic (Suffolk County Long Island, NY); Owen Brothers Landscaping (Baiting Hollow NY); Jennifer Hoang Acupuncture; The Wall Street Coach; Rocky Point Historical Society; Brooklyn Navy Yard; Brooklyn Arts Council; Queens Council on the Arts; Triton Hotel (San Francisco); Executive Coach Group, Inc.; Wonder Women Organization, UMWIZERO Humanitarian Non-Profit (Burundi East Africa); Qigong Master Judi Hason; Tai He Dao USA; Santi Yoga Studio; Camille Wynn Personal Fitness Studio (Brooklyn); Lama Gangchen International Foundation, among many others.

INDUSTRY RECOGNITION

Municipal Art Society of New York : : Annual Community Awards (Certificate of Merit) for #7 Train International Express brochure distributed at Grand Central Station for one year; Commissioned by the Queens Council on the Arts

Graphic Design: USA: Annual Design Awards : : Magazine Design Category

Summit Award : : Excellence in Creativity : : Annual Report Category (Silver Medal Award)

IRIS Award for Communications : : Annual Report (Gold Medal Award)

Art Director’s Club of NJ : : Magazine Design Category (Honorable Mention)

Art Director’s Club of NJ : : Annual Report Category (Silver Medal Award)

Graphic Design: USA: Annual Design Awards : : Logo Identity and Print Design Categories

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