I came up to Canada to  study Peace & Justice Studies in British Columbia. Since then, I have recently completed my first year of a PhD program at the University of British Columbia - better late then never! I aim to document key voices for the environmental health and environmental justice movements.

I still work as an independent consultant for NGOs, small businesses, academics, scientists, and health advocates to develop communication strategies to help raise awareness and create critical mass for change. 

Here are some things I do :

• strategize with planning communications in environmental health campaign inceptions, including targeting audiences, clarifying messages, and identifying messengers to work toward critical mass for change

• support for market and policy campaigns, and for underserved groups needing communications support, mentoring those with communications inclinations

• produce news teleconferences, also in person press events

• write op-eds, talking points, fact sheets, letters to the editor, blogs, focus sheets for conference calls & webinars, and more

• help build coalition through collaborative communications strategy with diverse groups

• work with reporters to get stories generated in media, to position and prep my team as resources for on-going media pieces

Before this, I was a Communications Director for two NGOs.

During my previous careers, I produced live radio and television shows, also produced magazine format video and documentries, and have worked as a river guide, in retail and as a maid. 

I am also a jazz singer and perform with my band, the Isoji Wizards.

I'm always interested in supporting  a team that is a good fit for my skills, experience, and personality. References available on request.



 Resume

Stephenie Hendricks

250 777-7065 stephdh@gmail.com

Education:

PhD student, University of British Columbia

Diploma Candidate, Peace and Justice Studies, Selkirk College

Master of Arts in Humanities with an emphasis on Creative Writing Dominican University of California, San Rafael

Bachelor of Arts in Humanities, with an emphasis on Cultural Studies, Dominican University of California, San Rafael

Also attended:

University of California at Santa Barbara

University of California Berkeley

Merritt College, Oakland

Laney College, Oakland

Work Experience:

November 2014 - present

 Independent Consultant

August 2016 - May 2018

Adjunct Faculty, Digital Journalism  and Communications for Social Justice, Dominican University of California

August 2015 - December 2015  Teaching Assistant for Multi-Media Journalism class at Dominican University of California

January 2008 - October 2014 Communications Director for the Coming Clean Collaborative of environmental health NGOs working on policy and market driven campaigns. I served over 200 groups,  in 8 work groups sometimes coordinating other communications staffers from larger organizations or training staff from smaller groups.

Duties included:

• Strategy development for communications in tandem with advocacy campaigns

• Monitoring media landscape to identify opportunities for messaging and pitching team members to reporters

• Developing and maintaining relationships with national and regional press to strengthen environmental health as a beat

• Mentoring those within the group who have a communications interest, in particular our environmental justice groups that have fewer resources and capacity

• Working to maintain several websites with very little funding

• Developing experts and personal stories as media elements alongside their development as policy element, including for Congressional and State legislative Hearings

• Writing Op-Eds, Letters to the Editor, blogs, draft editorials, video scripts, web text, Twitter tags, Facebook posts – basically whatever needs to be done

• Supervising of and sometimes engaging in producing video and audio

• Researching opposition, creating internal documents for team use

• Assisting with Power Points, slide shows, short format videos for funders, YouTube outreach

For recent news advisories, Op-Eds, or media hits, get in touch, I will send you the latest.



 September 2005 – January 2008 Communications Director Pesticide Action Network North America, a network of non-profit groups working on chemical exposure, farmworker rights, global, federal, and state policy.

Duties included:

• Published a weekly news digest to inform membership of pertinent stories related to our work.

• Published and then later supervised an editor to publish a quarterly magazine that served to document the work for funders and as an outreach tool. Took outdated newsletter format and created modern, promotable magazine. Hard Copy example available on request.

• Assisted with policy work, including helping to produce a Congressional Briefing that influenced policy

• Assisted with research on the corporate and government landscapes, learned how to translate technical scientific language into promotable text that the general public could understand

• Worked with a network television writer to get story line for our work into crime drama, “Law & Order, SVU” on the human testing rule for pesticides.

September, 2005, Author, Divine Destruction:  Wise Use, Dominion Theology, and the making of American Environmental Policy, Melville House.

August 2002 – September 2005 Executive Producer, Pacifica Radio Network National Live Broadcasts, including conventions, presidential debates, and more. Producer, “Sunday Salon,” weekly national news show, Caroline Casey’s “Visionary Activist Show,” and ”Flashpoints,” a daily news show.

June 1986 – September 2005, Communications Consultant, Producer for various contract clients, including:

Straus Communications

Group W Broadcasting

Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

KRON-TV Bay TV cable talk shows, “Evan White,” Pete Wilson,” and others

KPIX-TV “The Paget Show”

KGO-Radio – “Shann Nix”

KQED-TV – “This Week in Northern California” (fill in producer), Live Specials

 1987 & 1989 -  Produced two beautiful daughters ! Best productions ever!

June 1984 - June 1986 “PM/Evening Magazine,” Staff National Consulting Producer, responsible for generating TV stories for a daily national magazine show, worked with 40 small to medium size market TV stations.

1982- 1986 KPIX TV – Staff Producer, “People Are Talking,” live daily talk show

1980-1982 KGO-TV – Staff producer, “AM San Francisco,” Special Projects documentaries, pilots.

1974 – 1980 – KRE/KBLX Radio, morning drive radio personality.





Here are some of the groups I have worked with:

Alaska Community Action on Toxics

Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments

Alliance for Toxic Free Fire Saefty

American Sustainable Business Council

As You Sow

Black Women for Wellness

California Brain Tumor Association

Californians for Toxic Free Fire Safety

Campaign for Safe Cosmetics

Canadian Environmental Law Association

Center for Health, Environment & Justice

Clean and Healthy New York

Clear Light Ventures

Environmental Health Trust

Friends of the Earth,

GAIA

Green Science Policy Institute

Healthy Building Network

Mossville Environmental Action Now

Pacifica National Radio

Pacifica Radio Archives

Physicians for Safe Technology

Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles

Silent Spring Institute

t.e.j.a.s. (Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services)

Work Group for Safe Markets