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Other Experience

• Co-Chair Valley Forward Association.
  
  
• Worked with the Arizona Association of Realtors (AAR) and the Arizona Department of Real Estate (ADRE) on environmental issues affecting agents. Served on AAR "Task Force of the Year" producing educational materials and drafting environmental disclosure policy for Realtors. Served on committee drafting continuing environmental education curriculum for state mandated real estate courses.
  
  
• Taught environmental education classes for continuing credit. Featured speaker at state conventions. Worked with AAR and ADRE drafting legislative agendas.
  
  
• Managed marketing and advertising for the Arizona Game & Fish Department's "Watchable Wildlife" tax checkoff fundraising campaign, persuading state income tax filers to indicate a donation on their state tax form. Managed budget, produced radio, television, print and outdoor creative, and negotiated paid and unpaid media schedules. Successfully increased campaign income despite decreased advertising budget.
  
  
• Represented Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) on a committee charged with devising state implementation of lead-based paint policy drafted by Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
  
  
• Consultant to the North American Bear Society, a wildlife conservation group. Developed and managed pro bono marketing and advertising plan for the newly formed organization. Spearheaded a promotional and fundraising "Bear Fair" attended by more than 35,000 people.
  
  
• Served as press secretary accompanying U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Deputy Administrator and EPA Region 9 Administrator's fact-finding visits to Nogales, Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. Served as liaison with a U.S. and Mexico media entourage, planned and managed press conferences, guided private interviews and advised administrators.
  
  
• Producer for a Phoenix video and film production company specializing in local and network television promotion, as well as commercial and industrial clients.
  
  
• Programmed and consulted top-rated radio stations and performed on-air on radio and television. Hired and developed talent, supervised thirty people in a national award winning radio station. Three times nominated radio personality of the year in the U.S. Continues to work as a professional industrial and commercial voiceover talent and on-camera performer. Former member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA).
  
  
• Consultant to the Associated Highway Patrolmen of Arizona, coaching highway patrol officers on news media, political and public issues.
  
  
• Helped plan the facilitation of a meeting to deal with Mexico mobile emissions modeling for the Western Governors' Association.
  
  
• Master of Ceremonies for Arizona Governor's statewide Spirit of Excellence Awards program and presentation.
  
  
• Former City of Scottsdale Environmental Quality Advisory Board member.
  
  
• Past Vice President, Executive Board member and Communications Chair of Arizona Clean & Beautiful, an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful.
  
  
• Total Quality Involvement, University of Phoenix, 1994.
  
  
• OSHA 40-Hour Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Certificate.
  
  
• Incident Command Training, U. S. Department of Defense.
  
  
• During college, was once listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as having ridden more laps around the inside of a radio station newsroom on a 10-speed bicycle. (Beer was involved and it seemed like a good idea at the time.)