Work
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Haile Foundation
Long-term counsel to a $270 million endowed foundation; the $1 billion regional initiative was conceived and designed here, now being built by the Greater Cincinnati Foundation.
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A major community investment organization
An institution stewarding nearly $200 million in charitable assets, guided through a multi-year, organization-wide restructuring; counsel held in confidence, so it goes unnamed.
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Hamilton County Public Health
A $1.5M federally funded HIV strategy under the national Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative, and the county’s public State of HIV report.
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Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
A $1.6M statewide campaign built the slow way: original research first, with state IRB approval, then the creative.
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Office of Governor Mike DeWine
COVID-19 public communications: safety, balanced with the need to live and work in the world.
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George Mason Project on Immigration
A multi-method study of immigration attitudes; nearly a third of the team’s 100+ oral histories, collected door to door.
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Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal
For the museum’s 2018 reopening, redesign of the holiday exhibition spaces; Dream Land at the center.
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Deferred Action
December 2010, the Senate gallery when the DREAM Act died by five votes; June 2012, the White House table where the program that replaced it was given its limits.
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Groundwork Ohio River Valley
A three-year strategic plan, co-created with the founding executive directors and coached through adoption.
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Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation
A neighborhood vision and the strategy to carry it, shaped with the leadership and coached through the executive’s adoption.
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Hillary for America, Ohio
Statewide stakeholder engagement across civic, faith, labor, and community constituencies.
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Cincinnati Regional Chamber
Cincinnati Compass, the office of New Americans city hall doesn’t have, argued for and then named and written here.
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Cities for DACA
Two hundred U.S. mayors, Republicans and Democrats alike, making the public case.
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Biden for President
Trust-building with a key faith-based constituency in a pandemic year.