Interim Communications Leadership

If you’re a nonprofit with a senior-level communications or media vacancy, your worries are over. 3 Stories steps in, ramps up quickly, and keeps the trains running so you can focus on other things. In addition to mentoring staff, we can help with hiring and provide strategic counsel, integrated media support, content development, and operations assessments, as desired.

Client Stories

Conservation International — Deanna led the communications team at Conservation International (CI) from July 2016 to February 2017, standing in for vacancies at the VP and director levels. She managed and mentored junior team members through extensive internal changes, improved systems for outreach and tracking, and advised on integrated media strategy, hiring, risk and crisis communications, cultural competence and indigenous community engagement. She Introduced a strategic planning framework that is still used throughout the organization, developed the first thought leadership strategy for CI’s climate team, and wrote messages and coordinated speaking opportunities for the organization at COP22.

International Women’s Media Foundation — Deanna has promoted IWMF’s annual Courage in Journalism Awards and Anja Neidringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Awards programs for three years, from media strategy to pitching to coordinating interviews onsite. For the 2017 events, Deanna stood in for two communications staff vacancies for several months, during which she developed and coordinated a Women #Journoheroes social media campaign, wrote feature articles about award winners, developed the media strategy and coordinated multimedia content. In 2018, she wrote scripts for both programs and worked with ABC to create compelling and shareable videos of the Courage winners. She has obtained coverage for the Courage awards in outlets such as HuffingtonPost, Poynter, Deutsche Welle, New York Times Lightbox, AP, NPR, Cheddar, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, EFE and more. She also pitched and ghost-wrote an op ed on recent attacks on women journalists that was published in MediaShift.