Someone once told me that Trimarco–three marks–was the sign of the mapmaker. Whether that’s true or not, I’ll take it. It may sound trite to like maps, but I love that you can not only see where you are going, but the context of where you are, and how we are all interconnected. That’s my aspiration for what I provide to my clients.
I got my start twenty-five years ago on a market research gig for a plastic wrap, interviewing women about leftovers. It was anything but boring, and deep socio-political issues emerged. I was hooked, but I wanted to market ideas for public good and became an advocacy communicator.
I cut my teeth on comprehensive campaigns where the best communicators mapped strategies across politics, programs, organizing, fundraising, and research. Somewhere along the line, I developed a niche skill of public speaking coaching. The vast majority of my clients ended up crying–not because I tormented them with feedback, but because public speaking surfaced how they felt about their own leadership, about being a woman or person of color in power, and how they felt in their bodies. I started to provide deep leadership coaching and emotional support. Since then, I have coached hundreds of leaders from all walks of life.
Today, I take a cross-functional approach and map strategies across communications, fundraising, and programs while raising people’s leadership capacity and executive presence. I offer a la carte engagements or scale up with my team of collaborators to provide comprehensive, wraparound support. In addition to my own expertise, my team provides additional specialization in fundraising, PR and crisis comms, AI usage and training, digital strategies, website development, graphic design, photography, HR, change management, and printing.
I am queer and have an intersectional lens: feminist, anti-racist, and attuned to power/positionality. I guide people who want to do greater good in the world while doing greater good for themselves. I’ve lived on the West Coast for 30 years. I hail from the great state of New Jersey and went to art school in New York City at Cooper Union. My likes include hiking, dogs, food, East Coast humor, and the Oxford comma – sometimes all at once.