Ready to Meet the Full Range of Client Needs

Our goal is to provide clients with as much or as little help as they need. For some, it’s a quick writing assignment, for others, it’s a refresh of how they appear on LinkedIn and professional networks. Sometimes it’s an entire suite of materials for a capital fundraising campaign. In order to meet those diverse needs, we collaborate with a network of innovative and proven professionals in various disciplines. Every project we take on, though, is personally managed by writer, strategist and consultant Anne Botteri.

Thirty Years of Strategic Leadership

Anne Botteri is a writer, communications strategist and marketing consultant who helps individuals and organizations tell better stories about themselves, their mission, what moves them, their causes and their goals. After 30 years leading small and large teams in higher education and the political sector, she set up a practice that helps senior leadership teams and CEO’s, as well as average ordinary people seeking to develop the messages that build momentum for their highest priorities. She has specialized expertise in fundraising and advancement communications, speechwriting and executive communications and donor relations.

Prior to opening her consulting practice, Anne was Vice President for Marketing and Communications at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University where she oversaw a team of 45 professionals in Daytona Beach, Florida; Prescott, Arizona; and at ERAU’s Worldwide Online division with responsibility for marketing; university branding; news and research communications; digital, social and multimedia strategy; creative services; and, events and sponsorships. She also managed the university’s presence at domestic and international air shows.

Prior to joining Embry-Riddle, Anne was Associate Vice President for Advancement Communications and Donor Relations at the University of Central Florida Foundation where she provided strategic counsel, creative, editorial and overall communications planning for a 120-member advancement team engaged in the launch and execution of a $500M comprehensive capital campaign.

Anne also served as assistant vice president for communications and marketing at Saint Anselm College and Executive Director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics.

Prior to her work in higher education, she was chief of staff of a federal agency within the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities.

She has a B.A. in English and an MFA in Creative Writing. Teams she has led have won multiple awards for writing, publication and website design, video storytelling and event management. She is a regular speaker and moderator at professional conferences.

A Diversity of Skill Sets

Anne's collaborators include some who have full-time jobs and some who have their own consultancies as well, but with different skill sets and expertise than Anne. If they are on the list below, we’ve worked together on multiple projects and we’d love to show you what we can do working together.

An independent graphic designer based in Asheville, North Carolina, Rose was formerly graphics manager and designer at The University of Iowa Foundation in Iowa City for more than 15 years. She did her graduate work in design at California State University at Fullerton after receiving her BFA in photography from California College of Arts and Crafts. Rose has served on the board of the UCDA and has been a faculty member for the nationally known CASE/UCDA Design Institute and the CASE Summer Institute in Communications. She is also the recipient of CASE’s Steuben Apple Award for outstanding teaching.

Victoria Harnish has focused her career on helping educational institutions create strategic integrated marketing campaigns, with a concentration on advancement communications and strategic event planning for campaigns. For more than 20 years, she has provided creative direction, project management and editorial support to independent schools and universities. She has held positions at Phillips Academy (director of campaign communications), UMass Lowell (executive director of donor relations), Saint Anselm College (communications manager at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics), and Groton School (alumni and development publications manager). A trained writer and editor, Victoria has a bachelor of science in broadcast journalism and a master of science in mass communication — both from Boston University.  

John Himmer is the company’s part-time production assistant as he completes his degree in Political Science at Southern New Hampshire University. John hopes to be involved in local politics after graduating and to make an impact in the Central Florida community. He believes that while larger scale legislation and action receive the headlines and the public’s attention, local politics provides for the most direct impact on people’s lives. When not working, he enjoys reading, writing and general nerdery. 

Christine Dellert Mullon has nearly two decades of experience in media relations, public affairs and advocacy and content strategy, as well as internal, executive and crisis communications. A former reporter, she served in several administrative roles at the University of Central Florida, advising multiple university presidents and managing high-stakes campaigns. She also was on the small team that launched WUCF, Central Florida’s PBS station. Today, she helps leaders and organizations find their voice and share their vision with storytelling in (almost) every medium — social, web, opinion, case statements and good ol’ fashioned media pitching.

Kelly Pratt is a writer and storyteller with 18 years of experience in communications and marketing. She started her career as a journalist covering city hall politics, Latino affairs, and the environment for The Daytona Beach News-Journal. When she ventured into the nonprofit sector, her deadline-driven work ethic and eye for detail set her up for leadership roles at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, where she guided communications, oversaw student enrollment marketing, led advancement initiatives, and helped scientists convey their research to prospective students and the media. Following her experience in higher education, she became a copy chief for Teach For America, helping research and create moving written, visual and audio stories about educational equity for the nonprofit’s digital magazine. A graduate of the University of Florida, Kelly earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She is a second-generation Latina and is fluent in Spanish.

Deepika Ross is owner, creative director and illustrator at Chronicles of a Dixit, a New York-based, woman-owned, illustration and design agency founded in 2015. Deepika loves to juxtapose illustration and edgy design with conceptual thinking and has a passion for launching, rejuvenating, and propelling corporate and educational campaigns.

Prior to founding her own company, Deepika worked for some of the biggest agencies and publication companies in the world. She started her career at Leo Burnett in India, then moved to illustrating and designing at Condé Nast publications in New York City. She’s worked for a number of prestigious agencies in New York, including Grey, Ogilvy, McCann, and FCB, along with being a published illustrator for the New Yorker and New York Times.

Zack Thomas has more than 10 years of experience in higher education fundraising organizations in areas including copywriting for print and web, publications editing, mass email, and website design and editing. An expert in Blackbaud NetCommunity and Blackbaud Internet Solutions content management systems and mass email applications, Zack also has wide-ranging expertise in other CMS and email platforms. Prior to his career in higher education, Zack edited several outdoors publications. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Whitman College and an MFA with an emphasis in creative nonfiction from the University of Arkansas.