Expertise
Strategic communications
Marketing and branding
Speechwriting
Social media
Video and photo editing
Metrics and analytics
Media relations
Web content management
Graphic design – Adobe Suite
Professional Experience
douglas County Sheriff’s office
2021 – present DOUGLAS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
Public Information Officer
• Designed and executed agency’s strategic communications plan to market the sheriff’s priorities for the law enforcement agency locally,
regionally and nationally, including via social media, earned media and recruiting video/multimedia ad.
• Responsible for all external communications, including on multiple social media channels and media releases, earning international
media hits.
2019 – 2021
• Produced and edited new View from 100 podcast to market the agency to the community and law enforcement community nationally.
LAWRENCE-DOUGLAS COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH
Communications Officer
• Lead all external, internal communication for city-county health department and partners’ Unified Command’s public health response to
the COVID pandemic.
• Oversaw 2020 redesign of LDCHealth.org website and re-branding initiative, including a new logo and name change to Lawrence-
Douglas County Public Health, aiming to reflect image of advancing health for all in Douglas County.
2014 – 2019
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Public Affairs Officer & Executive Speechwriter
• Publicized KU faculty research including in School of Business to national media resulting in dozens of media hits per year, including 2015
exclusive in NYT about discovery of an unknown recording of James Naismith’s voice in a radio interview.
• Initiated a process to produce video for news releases at KU and trained staff on shooting and editing video.
• Earned Professional Speechwriters Association 2017 honorable mention Cicero Award for Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little’s speech at
the KU Symposium on Race and Immigration.
2012 – 2014
ALLOFE SOLUTIONS
K-12 Project Manager
2005 – 2012
THE WORLD COMPANY
News Reporter
A D J U N C T T E A C H I N G E X P E R I E N C E
2020 – present
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATIONS
Lecturer
2023 – present
CLOUD COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
2025 – present
OTTAWA UNIVERSITY; HASKELL INDIAN NATIONS UNIVERSITY; ALLEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
E D U C AT I O N
P U B L I C S E R V I C E
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Master of Science in Journalism
KNOX COLLEGE
Bachelor of Arts, English Literature
NONPROFIT OR VOLUNTEER BOARD MEMBER
Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church, pastoral council
Lawrence Habitat for Humanity
Leadership Lawrence, Class of 2023
Dads of Douglas County
George Diepenbrock 