Randi is a nonprofit expert, writer, editor, and master storyteller who uses stories as a vehicle to activate audiences and drive change. She has dedicated more than 25 years to providing support for and service to vulnerable populations including the military community, the special needs community, families in crisis, and the mental health community. Each of these communities faces unique challenges and obstacles. And working with each, Randi has successfully customized voice, messaging, and storytelling to deliver the communications and development outcomes necessary to sustain operations and advance missions.
As a writer, Randi masterfully uses her words to educate and inform, rally volunteers, build partnerships, secure funding, and engage the right stakeholders for each opportunity. As an editor, she ensures that all messaging is clean, aligned with brand, in the right voice, and on target for its intended audience.
Proposals and grants, prospect research, website content, articles, newsletters, press releases, e-blasts, blog posts, content development, copywriting and copyediting, and ghostwriting are all in Randi’s repertoire. She believes that words change the world in ways large and small. Her goal is always to put her clients in the best possible light with every word written or edited.
In the military space, Randi is a former (20+ years) military spouse and a national advocate for military families who is known for her ability to successfully bridge the military-civilian divide. She founded and ran a nationally recognized nonprofit for military families for almost a decade, served on the inaugural advisory board of the Military Family Advisory Network, was a co-author of Stories Around the Table: Laughter, Wisdom, and Strength in Military Life, and has been a sought-after writer and speaker on military and military-family-related topics.
Randi earned a BA in psychology from Rutgers University and an MS in human services with a specialty in nonprofit management from Capella University. A Chapel of the Four Chaplains Legion of Honor awardee, Shield of Sparta Heroine of the Infantry recipient, and Harlequin More Than Words “Real Life Heroine,” her favorite title is proud mama of four children and BuNana to the world’s greatest grandbaby.
