Executive leader, nonprofit founder, and former attorney with nonprofit, legal, media, and digital experience.
Executive leader, nonprofit founder, and former attorney with experience across nonprofit, legal, media, and digital organizations. Founded The Poston Foundation, built its governance, compliance, fundraising, and operating infrastructure, and launched the Carolina Cares Initiative, mobilizing 50+ volunteers to serve hundreds of Columbia-area residents.
Strengths include strategy, operations, board relations, partnerships, risk management, and persuasive communication, supported by experience managing complex legal matters and directing digital campaigns generating 60+ million cumulative views.
Professional experience
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2020 - PresentColumbia, SC
The Poston Foundation
Founder & Executive Director
Founder and chief executive of a South Carolina 501(c)(3) public charity focused on direct community support, charitable program development, and sustainable institutional growth.
Direct organizational strategy and oversee operations, finance, compliance, fundraising, partnerships, and communications; support board governance and serve as principal liaison to external stakeholders.
Defined the organization's mission and built its operating model, governance framework, compliance systems, internal controls, recordkeeping protocols, and core policies from inception.
Launched the Carolina Cares Initiative, mobilizing 50+ volunteers and coordinating direct-aid outreach serving hundreds of Columbia-area residents.
Build fundraising capacity through grant narratives, program budgets, cases for support, donor communications, sponsorship materials, and partnership proposals.
Modernized donor and public-facing operations through website redevelopment, donation workflows, analytics, search optimization, and campaign planning.
Independent entertainment and media company developing, producing, distributing, and commercializing music and media intellectual property.
Co-founded and direct the enterprise, setting strategy across content development, production, release planning, brand services, and intellectual property commercialization.
Oversee operations across service lines, custom engagements, budgets, rights management, distribution, and go-to-market execution.
Built a multi-project platform encompassing 75 documented industry credits and led multi-channel campaigns generating 60+ million cumulative views.
Manage web, e-commerce, payment, search, and analytics infrastructure supporting a media channel with approximately 198,000 subscribers and 3+ million cumulative views.
Lead market positioning, business development, and strategic partnerships to strengthen commercial readiness and long-term enterprise value.
Former boutique law firm that provided litigation-focused, business-minded representation to individuals and businesses.
Founded and led the firm, establishing its client-service model, operating infrastructure, matter-management systems, and professional standards.
Managed dozens of complex civil and business matters from intake and case assessment through investigation, discovery, negotiation, settlement, and trial preparation.
Developed litigation strategy and directed legal research, document review, written discovery, witness preparation, depositions, motion practice, and briefing.
Drafted and reviewed pleadings, motions, briefs, legal memoranda, correspondence, settlement agreements, and client recommendations requiring precise analysis and persuasive advocacy.
Negotiated resolutions and coordinated with clients, counsel, courts, agencies, experts, and vendors; implemented standardized templates, calendaring controls, and document workflows that strengthened quality control and deadline management.
South Carolina litigation and business law firm representing corporate, institutional, professional, and individual clients in complex civil matters.
Represented physicians, hospitals, medical practices, outpatient facilities, and other healthcare providers in medical malpractice, professional liability, and related civil defense litigation.
Argued motions, took depositions, and managed pleadings, written discovery, and court filings in medically, factually, and procedurally complex matters.
Managed critical pretrial phases, including factual investigation, medical-record analysis, motion practice, expert coordination, witness development, and deadline control.
Evaluated standards of care, liability, causation, damages, evidentiary support, and institutional exposure; prepared motions, memoranda, case assessments, chronologies, and deposition materials.
Served as defense counsel of record in federal litigation involving healthcare systems, physicians, specialty practices, and outpatient treatment facilities.
