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I have nearly 20 years of communications knowledge with experience in strategic nonprofit and government communications, print and digital journalism, and technical writing.
I excel as an editor, writer, project manager, and communications strategist and visionary. I've created frameworks for upstart communications programs and stepped into existing programs – all with enthusiasm and creativity. I am a champion for equity, social justice, and the validation of all identities and lived experiences to inform my work.
I'm dedicated to highlighting social issues, emphasizing public health, disability rights and justice, health disparities, health literacy, anti-violence, anti-racism, and the unique intersections of marginalized identities.
In 2024, I earned my Health Union Patient Leader Certification, a program designed in collaboration with the Society of Participatory Medicine, to help foster provider/patient engagement, patient empowerment and education.
I also serve as a member of the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative’s Community Advisory Board. The board supports CCHI’s public policy efforts and amplifies the healthcare needs of the state’s most vulnerable and marginalized communities.
Senate Bill 060 proposes the Colorado Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board (PDAB) "should have no authority to perform an affordability review of, or establish an upper payment limit for any
Page 23, column 2: A short collection of patient experiences, including my story about the way my immunocompromised husband navigates doctor's visits as safely as possible with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
A pamphlet highlighting the importance of HIV care for persons who inject drugs (PWID), even if they are not yet receiving treatment for substance misuse.
By Clarissa Guy, Rocky Mountain PBS March 2020 marked the first stay-at-home order for Colorado. Since that time, the number of people working from home across the nation and the [...]
“The people who are being mostly impacted right now by COVID-19 are Black and brown communities. And they are also the people who are most likely to be working outside of the home right now,” said Tamika Matthews of Violence Free Colorado.
Nobody knew how the coronavirus, with its historic stay-at-home order from the governor, would influence and inspire crime across Colorado. No previous period, no critical incident, offered much in the [...]
A press release announcing the Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado's inaugural Cannabis and Epilepsy Symposium, an informative discussion of how cannabis is shaping the future of epilepsy treatment.
A feature published in Briargate and Pine Creek Magazine highlighting the Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado
A feature story about the Pitter family's experience with epilepsy.