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 Here is a sampling of some of the fascinating people I have met and photographed in recent years.  I would love to put my 20+ years of experience in strategic communication and nonprofit management to work for you. I have a unique combination of experience in communications, policy and international development implementation, in four languages, on five continents. To find out more, click "About me," "My professional experience" and "Services I offer" on left. I enjoyed developing this website, and I hope you enjoy reading my stories, viewing my photos and videos and listening to my radio spots. Thanks to my website designer, Steve Chambers of Creative Services (creserv.com). 
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My Primer on Contraceptive Social Marketing in Indonesia JAKARTA, Indonesia -- I spent the first week of June 2013 here, learning everything I could about DKT Indonesia, the world's largest contraceptive social marketing project, and probably the largest social marketing project of any kind. Last year, it delivered enough contraception to protect 6.8 million couples for one year. Now I will write a series of articles on what I saw. Sharing My Genealogical Odyssey with French TV ALSACE, France -- "Envoye Special," the French "60 Minutes," aired a report on my exploration of my family roots in Alsace again -- a sequel to a piece that originally aired in 2002 (which you can see by clicking on "In search of my roots" at left). Last year, I spent two days with a film crew in my ancestral village in Alsace. Here's the report that was broadcast on France 2 TV network in October 2012. Communications Work Takes me to Mexico, Costa Rica and Brazil I had a big focus on Latin America in 2012 -- in Mexico for the G20 Summit and in Costa Rica for IntraHealth and Brazil for DKT International, where I took part in a World AIDS Day rehearsal of a Sao Paulo samba school that DKT Brazil is sponsoring in Carnival. I wrote this blog about those efforts. Blogging from the British Family Planning Summit LONDON -- I wrote a pre-summit piece about the role of the faith community in the summit for the Washington Post and a post-summit piece on Impatient Optimists. Covering the G20 Summit in Baja California LOS CABOS, Mexico -- I was at the southern tip of Baja California June 16-20 to cover my third G20 Summit for The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (World Health Organization). Here's my report on the PMNCH website. Developing a Reproductive Health Communications Strategy in Kenya NAIROBI -- In 2010, Kenyans approved a new constitution expanding reproductive rights, including a loosening of abortion restrictions. I spent six months in 2012 working with a Kenyan reproductive health coalition developing a communications strategy to inform key audiences of those changes and wrote this blog about the experience. Telling the Great Story of DKT Ethiopia's Work ADDIS ABABA -- I spent a week with DKT Ethiopia in April to help them tell the story of their outstanding work in contraceptive social marketing and HIV prevention among sex workers and other vulnerable groups. I wrote this blog on the sex workers. SOME RECENT COMMUNICATIONS EXPERIENCES: Moderating Safe Water Conference at BU BOSTON -- In January 2012, I moderated an all-day Safe Water for Health Now Conference at Boston University in partnership with Vestergaard Frandsen, a European company that employs a unique humanitarian entrepreneurship business model. Communications Training in Burkina Faso, Mali OUAGADOUGOU and BAMAKO -- In October 2011, I gave communications training to PSI staff in Burkina Faso and the staffs of Futures Group and l'Institut de l'Education Populaire in Mali. The Conseil National de Lutte contre le SIDA du Burkina, which also participated, wrote this about my workshop on their website. Social Good Summit and NCD Summit, New York NEW YORK -- I was in New York Sept. 18-22, 2011 for a UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and the Social Good Summit. Most of my time was spent at the Digital Media Lounge of the Summit which I blog about here. I also wrote two blogs for the Huffington Post - one on cancer in Africa, and another on the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa. G8, Deauville, France DEAUVILLE -- I tackled my third G8 Summit in May 2011, but global health did not fare nearly as well as it had in Canada in 2010. I wrote six blogs from Deauville and here is my final word on the summit. White House Summit on Health & Clean Energy WASHINGTON -- In November 2009, I spent half a day in the White House to hear and share ideas with top Obama Administration officials including Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sibelius and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson about the public health benefits of clean energy. Here's my account. An Emotional Return to My African Village LOME, TOGO -- In October 2009, I was thrilled to my core to return to my Peace Corps village in Togo after 24 years. The two years I spent there had a major impact on the course of my life. But had I had a major impact on my village? It was the moment of truth. Here's what I found. > Go to my personal blog |
