At LIFT, Patience is responsible for developing and managing the long-term national communications vision for the organization. She serves as a thought partner to executive leadership on communications-related matters and develops and implements an annual communications plan that syncs with LIFT’s national strategic plan. She is the lead on developing, testing, and refining messages that are in alignment with LIFT’s brand, mission, and vision.
Patience LIFTs because of her own experience with poverty as a youth. Having grown up utilizing many public and community services, she knows first-hand the inter-generational and transformational impact that LIFT’s model can have on a community.
For nearly a decade, Patience has honed her skills as a communications professional through roles that married communications, program, and fundraising functions. She most recently served as the Associate Director of Development Communications at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and has held positions at leading organizations such as KIPP DC Charter Schools, Share Our Strength, and the Advisory Board Company. Patience credits her career in mission driven work to her being an alumna of the Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellows program, a program run by the Congressional Hunger Center. She is a founding board member of the Women Achieving Visionary Excellence Scholarship Fund, supports several local and national charities, and volunteers regularly at her church. Patience holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Hampton University (GO PIRATES!) and is a proud native of Washington, DC.
