Stephen joined SOUND’s Board in September 2023. He passionately believes in SOUND’s mission to provide mental health and substance use recovery services to King County’s most underserved communities.
Stephen is an executive at Blue State, a leading nonprofit marketing and fundraising agency. He has spent the past 15+ years in digital marketing and fundraising for a range of nonprofits, brands, and political clients, including the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, UNICEF USA, Médecins Sans Frontières, CARE, Partners in Health, Teach for America, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, MIT, Colgate, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Purina, and many more. His passion lies in helping organizations work across strategy, technology, creativity, and organizational design to scale their impact.
Stephen was also a senior member of the Obama Digital Team in 2008 and 2012, which revolutionized how the internet was used to mobilize voters. In 2012, he oversaw all video production for the campaign, building a 30-person in-house studio that produced over a thousand videos, including ads and short narrative and documentary pieces.
He holds a BFA in Film Production from Chapman University with a minor in Psychology.
