Katherine Noble-Goodman

Creates broad public awareness of solutions journalism and its value in informing social change and public policy, and contributing to a thriving democracy.

• Develops and executes products and services for social-change and policy-influencing organizations to enhance their work with solutions journalism stories.
• Researches, identifies, cultivates and nurtures relationships with these organizations so that they are exposing their audiences to solutions journalism both in support of their social-change and policy-influencing missions, and to educate their audiences about solutions journalism.
• In collaboration with the VP for Knowledge Dissemination, creates, evaluates and updates products and services that enhance SJN's capacity for exposing significant numbers of individuals, both directly and through mission-driven organizations, to solutions journalism.
• Established and pursues diversity, equity and inclusion goals related to this work and evaluates current and potential partners to ensure that working with these organizations aligns with or advances SJN's DEI goals.
• Manages the workflow of relevant team members as it relates to relevant products and services to ensure timely and professional development, delivery and maintenance.
• Creates and maintains relevant material on SJN's website related to mission-driven and policy-focused organizations in a manner that seeks to increase transparency internally and externally, and encourage engagement with potential partners and across the organization.
• Delivers presentations, participates on panels, & writes op-ed pieces and blog posts related to the value of solutions journalism to individuals, organizations and policy makers.

Served as faculty and administrator at small graduate institution offering a master's degree in Applied Community Change for students living and working in impoverished regions of the world.

• Developed and taught main sustainability course delivered through online lectures, webinars and discussion boards.
• Coordinated institutional rebranding effort in consultation with graphic designer.
• Established and maintained Facebook and Twitter presence
• Launched student recruitment campaign.
• Developed a series of travel excursions for major donors, established relationships with several key foundation funding officers, and worked to develop a long-term fundraising strategy.

• Developed curriculum, designed courses and taught undergraduate environmental studies and undergraduate and graduate business students at private liberal arts university.
• Motivated and engaged students in understanding global planetary challenges and developing and implementing solutions, including creating campus and community sustainability projects, and developing business plans for social enterprises.
• Tripled course enrollment in first year teaching study abroad course on sustainable business practices in Sweden and Denmark, and launched service-learning course to Rwanda.
• Collaborated with departmental colleagues to design the environmental studies business concentration curriculum, and taught the Green Business foundational course. After one year, enrollment in business concentration increased by 250 percent.
• Taught environmental design studios on sustainable agriculture, public greenways and water conservation that culminated in community or campus projects. Projects included a campus farm to fork program, working with the local and conservancy and city council to launch the Redlands' Emerald Necklace, and a water conservation competition for students living on campus.

Covered a variety of beats for daily and bi-weekly newspapers including police and fire, general assignment, religion, education and philanthropy.

• One of two founding reporters at The Philanthropy Journal ofNorth Carolina, a solutions-focused, statewide monthly publication covering foundations, fundraising, nonprofits, corporate giving and volunteerism.
• Received numerous awards in news and feature categories at The Cary News (a bi-weekly community paper) and The Raleigh News & Observer, including first place in news reporting for exposing abuse at a local nursing home.
• Regular contributor to U.S. Water News, Foundation News & Commentary, and various publications at the Water Education Foundation.