Meet Our Trainers

Vanessa is a digital-comms enthusiast and writer based in Washington, D.C. She currently leads communications strategy at a community organization called Femex, and has spent the past year training grassroots organizers and comms professionals on messaging and digital advertising with Priorities USA. She believes that any good communications strategy should center racial and gender justice, and is passionate about the way good storytelling can help us better imagine the world we wish to see.

In the past, Vanessa has worked in the progressive economic advocacy space, designing programming and digital strategy around narrative shifts around progressive economic messaging. In her free time, Vanessa is an admirer of art, design, fashion, cats and pups, and can be found writing stories about joy and community at her desk.