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Katya Andresen of Network for Good and the author of Robin Hood Marketing will be presenting at the Washington DC Net Tuesday this month.
You can meet her, and other social changemakers and web innovators at the Meetup on February 20th, 7 PM, at the Affinity Lab (2451 18th St., NW 2nd Flr.).
To RSVP or join the DC Net Tuesday Meetup group, click here.
Here's some more info. about the fabulous Katya:
Katya is vice president of marketing at Network for Good, the Internet's leading charitable giving site. She develops and executes Network for Good's marketing strategy, including consumer outreach, media relations and corporate partnerships. Before joining Network for Good, she was Senior Vice President of Sutton Group, a marketing and communications firm supporting non-profits, government agencies, and foundations working for the social good. As a marketing consultant overseas, Katya promoted causes ranging from civil society in Ukraine to ecotourism in Madagascar. She has trained scores of causes in effective marketing and media relations, and her marketing materials for non-profits have won national and international awards. She is the author of the book, Robin Hood Marketing: Stealing Corporate Savvy to Sell Just Causes. Katya traces her passion for good causes to the enormous social need she witnessed as a journalist prior to her work in the non-profit sector. She was a foreign correspondent for Reuters News and Television in Asia and for Associated Press, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Dallas Morning News in Africa. She has a bachelor's degree in history from Haverford College. Check out Katya's blog: http://www.nonprofitmarketingblog.com/
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Ukraine
Hi Katya,
tracked you down with a search, after reading about the DC promotion of civil society in Ukraine, which coincidentally is where we're focussed as you can see from the project proposals.