Natalia Algarin

• Spearheaded strategic planning and implementation for the NAHJ Adelante Academy.
• Collaborate with team members and an Advisory Board to develop curriculum and program structure.
• Cultivate partnerships with industry leaders to enhance program offerings.
• Provide guidance to participants, fostering their professional growth.
• Designed and launched the Latina Leadership Program as a flagship initiative of the NAHJ Adelante Academy.
• Designed a selection process.
• Develop a comprehensive curriculum focused on leadership development, empowerment, and advocacy.
• Recruit top-tier speakers and mentors to engage and inspire program participants.
• Coordinate in-person and virtual sessions on topics such as career advancement, negotiation skills, and personal branding.
• Evaluated program effectiveness and gathered feedback for continuous improvement.
• Propose a comprehensive social media and communications plan to effectively disseminate program content across various platforms.
• Actively monitor feedback channels to gather insights and enhance program delivery for future editions.
• Implement iterative improvements based on feedback analysis to optimize the overall program effectiveness and the cohort experience.

Website: https://nahj.org/adelante-academy/

• Follow up the governance and communication structure for the regional media network of the Americas and the Caribbean.
• Follow up the engagement and communication with the the regional media network.
  Strengthen our relationship and visibility with regional media outlet agencies.
  Design and implement relevant regional media training modules based on UNDRR corporate material.
• I'd like for you to implement regular communication with media networks (newsletters, meetings, innovative channels, event invitations, and Q&A sessions).
• Support and strengthen the editorial page (OP-ED) strategy in local media.
• Organize Q&A sessions for the media on relevant topics (early warning, etc).
  Participate in the inclusion of media communication and support in National and Local DRR Plans (target E) in selected countries.
• Identify good practices, impact stories and experiences for the promotion and dissemination at local, national, regional, and global levels as well as provide inputs for effective communication and visibility in line with UNDRR and donor requirements.
• Support the World Broadcasting Union trainings in the region with a focus on prevention saves lives
  and early warning systems as well as the engagement with the disaster fighters campaign in the Caribbean.
• Support the strategy for DRR regional influencers on Social Media.
• Develop a strategy for media participation in the VIII Regional Platform session and other preparatory events (media invitation, media registration, media handbook preparation, media section web page, press conferences organization, talking points preparation for media engagement; general media coordination
  and management, press releases, RP, media training, media monitoring among other actions concerning media).
• Organization of media events and the campaign on Early Warning Systems (EWS) in the Caribbean in the context of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2023.

#DromoFest22 was organized by Dromómanos, an award-winning journalistic production company investigating the most critical issues in Latin America: environment, Democracy, and Drug Policies. It took place from October 26th to 28th in Mexico City and Hopin.

• Defined the festival's narrative, concept, and strategy under the slogan: Ideas that Cross Borders.
• Curated a program aligned with the organization´s core mission and vision to reach a regional and hybrid audience.
• Invited and confirmed participants.
• Managed communications between participants and the production team.
• I followed up on the execution of the narrative and strategy.

Website: https://www.dromofest.com/

Project curator for the Latino Media Summit, a journalistic gathering focused on Latino media and audiences in the United States, organized by The Newmark J-School, at CUNY.

• In 2021, I coordinated and curated the first fully virtual Latino Media Summit.
• In 2022, I coordinated and curated the first hybrid Latino Media Summit in NYC.
• Both years I recruited an external staff to execute the digital and social media strategy, creative direction and design, streaming services, and a digital platform.
• Coordinated the event rebranding.
• Worked with the internal staff members of the school.
• Defined responsibilities and roles of team members.
• Designed an agenda in tune with the strategy and narrative proposed in every edition.
• I worked aligned with and under the guidance of the Center for Community Media's director and the event´s director.

Web page: https://www.latinomediasummit.com/

Content curator: conceptualization, guest selection, profiles and interviews, articulation with the production, communications and digital strategy teams to maintain the project's vision and objective: To connect Latin American audiences with the stories of adaptation and transformation of a group of barrier-breakers through art, culture, technology and social entrepreneurship.

Website: https://futuros.sura-am.com/futuro-a-voces/

• Maintain tactical control of project timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets.
• Designed a strategy to redefine the narrative of the event and execute it to achieve it.
• Developed and trained junior team members by leveraging industry experience to achieve optimal project strategy.
• Perform independent analysis and provide recommendations to overcome project obstacles.
• Recruited, hired, and supervised resources to staff project team.
• Defined responsibilities and roles of team members.
• Led and coordinated the Content Committee of the Forum.
• Design an agenda in tune with the strategy and narrative proposed in every edition.
• 2021 edition was organized in three Central American countries, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, under my direction.

I created La Red sessions for the 2021 NAHJ Virtual Annual Conference. Thirteen journalists from Latin American and Caribbean countries, recognized for the quality of their work and the impact of their projects, were in charge of the first La Red Session. These sessions were a space in Spanish for the exchange of experiences between Latin American and Latinx journalists in the US: narrative innovation opportunities; creation and collective work to combat misinformation and myopic gaze; and above all, to think about networked, diverse, collaborative and cross-cultural journalism throughout the Americas and the Caribbean.

Website: https://nahj2021.org/program/

• Developed an innovative and cutting-edge area that improved the relationship with the base audience of the foundation and new audiences through different projects.

- Some of the projects I co-created and/coordinated/curated were:

- Gabo International Journalism Festival/Awards

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fellowship in Cultural Journalism

- Ibero -American Network of Cultural Journalism

- Oxfam FNPI Inequality Fellowship

- The relationship with the Hay Festival Cartagena, and the agenda proposed by the foundation for their festival.

• Coordinated several workshops and seminars in several Latin American and Caribbean countries.
• Trained and managed team.
• Worked along different areas such as Digital Strategy and Communications, and Logistics to organize and planned different projects.

• Organized and managed program development from conception through successful execution.
• Developed and organized routine and special programming.

• Cultivated and maintained strong relationships with media outlets.
• Developed with teams original content for social media accounts and the new image of the web page.
• Engaged in professional networking to maintain strong relationships with communications and media professionals to drive partnerships and effective dissemination of mass communications.
• Drafted press releases detailing relevant, newsworthy information and supporting brand image and worked with news media to spread positions.
• Created unified messaging of public relations efforts in conjunction with advertising campaigns by working closely with marketing peers.

• Collaborated with media to encourage the coverage of the events.
• Coordinated literary events.
• Attention to guests and journalists at the Carnival of the Arts.