ROLE: COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTORThe Well Done Foundation operates at the intersection of energy, environment, and federal policy — plugging orphaned oil and gas wells that leak methane across the United States. The challenge is to take an invisible infrastructure crisis — 3.5 million orphan wells, no responsible party, many leaking in backyards, wildlife refuges, and riverbeds — and make it matter to people who had never heard of it.
As Communications Director for the Well Done Foundation, I lead the organization's public narrative — directing the strategy, voice, and storytelling that brings one of America's most overlooked environmental crises into public view. The Well Done Foundation is doing something about it. My job is to make sure the right people know.
That work spans press releases, media outreach, overseeing social media, stakeholder communications, and a Substack journal series written not as a press operation, but as first-person field journalism — grounded in science, honest about complexity, and written to build an audience that keeps coming back.
It also extends to publishing. Willow the Orphan Well is a children's book I wrote to introduce environmental activism to young readers — making the case, in plain and accessible terms, that even the youngest among us can understand what's at stake and be part of the solution.
As author and producer of the Good News Letter, I keep Well Done Foundation's donor and subscriber community informed, engaged, and invested in the mission — one well at a time.
Coordinating media outreach and messaging on an Oracle collaboration designed to plug two New Mexico wells and remove 60,000 Metric Tons of CO2e from the atmosphere.
Develop and pitch story concepts to energy, environmental and industry publications repurposing orphan wells for geothermal. I am quoted in this Canary Media article.
Meet Willow the orphan well who Engages children in communities affected by orphan wells in a friendly, non-threatening, manner.
The Tayler-Allderdice Dice Club raised funds to plug two wells in Pennsylvania. They deserved recognition, and my outreach to the governor's office helped them get it.