2025 Annual Report to the Community
UJA's scale is hard to hold in one hand—hundreds of programs, thousands of donors, a community's worth of need. This report makes the case for all of it in language a donor can actually feel.
View sample ↗I've spent the better part of a decade turning complexity into clarity—for national sport organizations, philanthropic institutions and the causes people care about most. This is a selection of that work: the messaging, the moments and the reports that had to land right the first time.
Every project here answers a different problem—an organization too complex to explain simply, a moment with no room for error, a strategy still waiting for the story that would carry it. I chose these because together they show how I think, not just what I've written.
UJA's scale is hard to hold in one hand—hundreds of programs, thousands of donors, a community's worth of need. This report makes the case for all of it in language a donor can actually feel.
View sample ↗Survivor testimony carries this report, not statistics. My job was to give the numbers just enough room to support the stories, never to crowd them out.
View sample ↗A full year of a national sport organization—marketing, digital, operations, the athletes themselves—compressed into one document that still reads like it has a point of view.
View sample ↗Eighty resources, thirty organizations, one platform built for athletes who don't have time to go looking. I wrote the launch to make that scale feel like relief, not clutter.
View sample ↗Paris 2024 generated plenty of medal counts. This piece was about the volunteers and athlete leaders who made the cycle possible long before the Games began.
View sample ↗A live show has one shot to get the order of operations right—protocol, land acknowledgement, dignitaries, athletes—without ever feeling like a checklist. I wrote every transition to carry that weight.
View sample ↗Ten years on, the case for Vancouver 2010 still had to be made fresh: legacy isn't nostalgia, it's an ongoing argument for investment. These are the messages that made it.
View sample ↗An advocacy statement built to hold up in front of government—athletes and community voices asking, specifically, for $35M over five years plus $7M ongoing. No hedging in the ask.
View sample ↗Press releases, scripts, case statements, the day-to-day of the job—filed by discipline below. Each link opens the original document.
AthletesCAN
Surf Canada
Canadian Olympic Committee
Canadian Olympic Committee
AthletesCAN
Canadian Olympic Committee
Steinberg Family / community campaign
Canadian Olympic Foundation
Canadian Olympic Foundation
AthletesCAN
AthletesCAN
Community campaign
Steinberg Family
Jewish Foundation
Canadian Olympic Committee
I move between the boardroom and the blank page by design—strategy means nothing until it's written, and writing means nothing until it's grounded in strategy.
Distill competing priorities into one objective and a promise to the audience.
Build the narrative and messaging architecture that gives the objective form.
Carry the strategy into media, digital, events and executive content.
Hold the work accountable to the people and outcomes it's meant to serve.