Executive Director of Marketing & Communications
Marketing and Communications

Adele Wilson

Overview
Overview
Background

Overview

Biography

About me: I design, produce and manage online marketing in a collaborative environment. I organize project needs into creative direction, then implement a team's shared vision. And I manage chaos into on-time deliverables (while simultaneously singing Broadway standards).

Credentials

MFA, Media Arts

Career Interests

  • CRM
    Blackbaud (Convio) donor database and email campaigns
  • CMS
    Drupal, Wordpress
  • Adobe
    InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects
  • Wireframing and design
    Sketch, Omnigraffle, Balsamiq
  • UX/UI prototype
    Framer, Axure, Webflow
  • SEO/SEM
    Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar
  • Collaborative tools
    Jira, Basecamp, RedMine
  • Hand-coding
    w3c standards compliant HTML, CSS3, and emails that work in any inbox

Background

Education

MFA in Media Arts
University of Montana
Missoula, Montana
Bertha Morton Scholar
(Go Griz!)

BA in History
Western Oregon University
Monmouth, Oregon
Summa Cum Laude
(Go Wolves!)

 

 

Experience

Senior Online Producer
The Trust for Public Land
San Francisco, California
August 2011-July 2018

Senior Digital Strategy Lead and Founder
The Hive Group
Berkeley, California |  Eugene, Oregon
January 2008 - 2011

Director of Media
OsoEco
Eugene, Oregon
January 2006 - July 2008

Design and Strategy Lead, Co-owner
Me and Her Designs, Eugene, Oregon
January 2003 - 2008

Instructor
University of Montana, Missoula, Montana
January 2001 - May 2002

Service

GreenLane SBN, Board Member, Founding Board Member

 

Honors & Awards

  • 2012, Land & People Award, The Trust for Public Land
  • 2006, 2008, 2010 MarCom Gold Award, fund-raising videos, Committed Partners for Youth
  • 2003 Festival Des Champs-Elysees, Outstanding Screenplay & Female Interpretation, short movie Donor
  • 2003 Mostra Lambda Barcelona, Audience Award, short movie Donor
  • 2003 Best Dramatic Comedy, NY Independent Film and Video Festival, short movie Donor
  • 2002 Northwest Film and Video Festival, Judge’s Award, short movie Donor
  • 2001 Bertha Morton Scholar, University of Montana
  • 2000 Writing the Story, Assistant to the late Carroll O’Connor

Honors & Awards

  • Finding humor in the worst of times
  • Listening
  • Print material design
  • Creative writing
  • Script writing
  • Independent film-making
  • Video shorts
  • Typography
  • Photography
  • Rebuilding Schwinn 3-speeds*
  • Restoring Victorian windows**

*Note: To be completely transparent, when I was done there may have only been 2 speeds, and not 3.

**Note: Ok. so my first window may not have opened when I was done; but it looked really good.

Additional Information

Background in leading successful projects, ability to work with a wide range of people (developers, vendors, writers), passionate about the work I do and my impact on those I work with.