Amie Newman

Experience

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  Aradia Women's Health Center

  Sept 2000 - Jan 2007

  Communications Manager

  Provided leadership and direction for communication with supporters and clients of thirty-five year old feminist women's health center including creation of Annual Report, writing monthly e-newsletter, co-writing client newsletter and donor newsletter. Oversaw development of public education materials and initiatives to support organization's key messages. Successes included editing and developing client stories booklet now being utilized in clinics around the country and supervising health education program.Managed individual and major donor development; fundraising strategies and event planning as well. Show less

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  United Nations Foundation

  Apr 2006 - Mar 2011

  Managing Editor, RH Reality Check (now Rewire News)

  Manage editorial functions for award-winning, progressive online publication covering global reproductive and sexual health and rights news and information. Successes during tenure include having the site win 2008 & 2010 Webby Honoree for Best Political and Best Health Blog; 2010 Our Bodies, Ourselves Women's Health Hero Awards; 2010 Planned Parenthood Maggie Award.Direct key editorial partnerships with traditional and new media news sources including The New York Times, US News & World Report, Huffington Post, Ms. Magazine, Jezebel, ColorLines, Feministing and more. Contribute daily and weekly commentary and reporting on reproductive health and rights public policy with regional, national or international focus.Represent the site as invited panelist at conferences and annual meetings and in the media. Utilize social media tools including Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Digg, blogging with Wordpress and Drupal applications. Show less

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  RH Reality Check

  Nov 2006 - Jan 2008

  Associate Editor, Staff Writer
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  Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  Mar 2011 - May 2014

  Communications Officer

  Editor, Impatient Optimists. Global Digital Communications Strategist with a focus on Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health; and Family Planning programs. Managed editorial strategy and day-to-day editorial operations of independent online platform with hundreds of contributors including international journalists, bloggers, NGO staff, foundation staff, and others, writing on range of issues related to global health, development, and U.S. education. Contributed over 100 blog posts on multiple issue areas to Impatient Optimists and edited hundreds of blog posts, with heavy scientific, medical and philanthopy focuses.Established high-level partnerships with Skoll World Forum's digital platform, helping to co-produce blog series, bringing together global leaders (including Bill and Melinda Gates) on critical development topics including the Millennium Development Goals, game-changing ideas to advance women and girls worldwide, and AIDS prevention. Conceptualized, developed and managed relationships for innovative digital media partnerships including establishing foundation's first partnership with Upworthy to create "All 7 Billion" a special section devoted to amplifying creative content with a focus on global health and development which exploded all engagement goals, surpassing targets for engagement by more than 200 %. Co-managed partnership with International Reporting Project to provide short and long term global health and development fellowship opportunities to journalists and digital media producers from multiple countries to report on issues critical to the foundation's mission. Global digital communications strategist leading digital communications strategies in support of a range of foundation priorities including our maternal, newborn, and child health program; vaccines program; and family planning. Show less

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  Amie Newman Consulting

  Jun 2014 - Sept 2017

  Communications Expert + Writer for Social Change

  Clients have included: International Women's Media Foundation, Foundation for a Just Society, NoVo Foundation, Exhale, Marguerite Casey Foundation, Humanosphere, Our Bodies Ourselves. Freelance writer/editor covering a range of topics: reproductive health and rights, women's health, global health, reproductive justice, racial and gender equity, as well as personal essay writing. Most recently was the staff writer/blogger for Our Bodies Ourselves. Have written or edited for: Rewire News, Lilith Magazine, Role Reboot, Entropy, Kveller, Truthout, Common Dreams, Alternet, Huffington Post, Bright Magazine, Ask Me About My Uterus, National Center for Health Research and more. Show less

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  Our Bodies Ourselves

  Mar 2016 - Apr 2018

  Writer

  Staff blogger for the digital platform for pioneer women's reproductive and sexual health organization, Our Bodies Ourselves. Write and edit health articles, blog on a range of women's and girls' health and rights topics including the politics and history of abortion access, sexual health for teen girls, domestic violence, and menstruation.

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  Amara

  Jul 2017 - Sept 2021

  Director Of Communications

  Direct communications and outreach initiatives at Amara, a nonprofit organization committed to positive long-term outcomes for children in foster care, adoptees, and families. We promote healing, racial and LGBTQIA+ equity, and transformation of our child welfare system into a family well-being system. Oversee all external and internal communications, and am a member of the organization's leadership team. Fulfill leadership role with responsibility for strengthening Amara’s profile, overseeing the creation and implementation of a new mission, vision, and values statements; lead the development of programs that harness support for children in foster care by changing perceptions and establish Amara as a thought leader on child welfare. Maintain cross-platform messaging, oversee content strategy and development, leverage storytelling to shift perceptions about foster care. Direct media strategy and outreach and provide counsel to agency leadership on communications including crisis communications. Show less

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  JFS Seattle

  Sept 2021 - now

  Director of Marketing & Communications