Strategic Communications Plan - Develop & Refine with Amanda Kim
Organizations can thrive with a strategic communications plan that motivates internal staff and external audiences to action. This workshop will explain why each component of your plan is important, covering: planning, audiences/messengers, key messages and themes, activities, goals, and success measurements. Our facilitator will discuss ways to refine your plan with data to inform your decisions. We hope to see you there!
Workshop Presenter
Amanda Mei Kim is a fourth-generation Californian of Japanese and Korean descent, who grew up on a small tenant farm in Saticoy, California. She is a graduate of Brown University (Bachelor of Arts, American Civilization) where she led the university’s first Asian American writing class, and San Francisco State University (Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing and Master of Urban Administration, Public Administration). She has worked on two oral history projects: a history of farmworkers in Ventura County (UCLA) and the history of health science (UCSF).
Amanda is a 2022-23 Steinbeck Fellow, a 2021 Marion Weber Healing Arts Fellow and a 2021 California Arts Council Emerging Artist Fellow. She won the James D. Phelan Literary Award (1999) and was a semi-finalist for Heekin Award in the Novel (1998). She received a notable mention in Best American Essays 2022 and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2020). She has completed residencies at Mesa Refuge (Point Reyes, CA), Hedgebrook (Whidbey Island, WA), the Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA) and Yefe Nof (Lake Arrowhead, CA). Her work has been published in the New York Times (2022), Discover Nikkei (2022). Brick Literary Journal (2021 and 2019), PANK (2021), LitHub (2021) and she was anthologized in Woodhall Press' "Nonwhite and Woman" in 2022.