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Dat Tran

Dat is a member of S360’s Finance team. He supports the firm with processes, contracts, accounts payable and receivable, and ensuring timely and accurate accounting documentation. A recent graduate, Dat majored in accounting and business administration at the University of Washington – Tacoma. His studies included in-depth exploration of workflow productivity and operational improvements to support management teams. … Continued

Janice Leevin

As a Staff Accountant, Janice brings her expertise in financial services and accounting to support S360’s clients and team. She manages invoices, billing, and monthly reporting all to help ensure the firm’s finical services are in order. Janice comes to S360 from DocuSign as a Revenue Accounting Specialist and Costco Wholesale Corporate as an Assistant … Continued

Mike Snodgrass

Mike brings experience in relationship building, creative problem solving, and strategic planning to the Strategies 360 Olympia office. Born, raised, and settled in Olympia, Mike leverages his relationships to advocate year-round with legislators and executive agencies. Mike is passionate about educating decision makers on real-world impacts of policy in communities. Previously, Mike served as the … Continued

Grifynn Clay

As the Vice President of Government Relations in S360’s Olympia office, Grifynn leads advocacy and strategic engagement efforts for clients with a focus on advancing public policies across state, local and tribal government landscapes. Grifynn brings expertise in political strategy, stakeholder engagement, coalition building, government relations, and campaign execution developed through years of work across the public, … Continued

David Kornahrens

David serves as the Senior Vice President of Research, leading the S360’s award-winning research practice. With more than a decade of experience in qualitative and quantitative research, David guides clients toward the most effective solutions  to achieve their goals. David joined S360 after working as the Campaign Manager for Paula Villescaz, California’s former Assistant Secretary … Continued

Tori Tavolazzi

Tori is a Digital Account Associate on Strategies 360 Digital Marketing team. She serves S360 clients with digital advertising campaign management across a multitude of platforms. This includes achieving and exceeding client’s goals in a transparent and efficient manner with regular metrics tracking and reporting. Using Google Analytics and customized internal tools, Tori leverages information … Continued

Rachel Nakanishi

Rachel approaches her work as S360’s Vice President of Education Communications with a deep passion for ensuring every young person has access to the education that can enable them to have the future they dream of. In her role, Rachel supports education clients with comprehensive communications services, especially for school districts working on bond and … Continued

Sarina Montenegro

As a Director on our Creative team, Sarina draws on her experience as a designer, photo art director and brand builder. Her approach stems from her innately refined aesthetic, natural sense of curiosity, and penchant for problem solving. Her love of typography, color and photography serves as the foundation to building memorable visual narratives. With … Continued

Stephanie Bragdon

Stephanie brings S360 education clients a savvy understanding of political communications with the sense of urgency required for a rapidly changing campaign atmosphere. As Education Communications Director, Stephanie helps school districts pass bonds and levies through communications collateral including print copy, press support, and social media management. Before joining S360, Stephanie was a Legislative Correspondent … Continued

Nathan Wilson

As the Vice President of Communications for California and Washington, Nathan helps lead S360’s Crisis Communication practice, both in long term planning and training as well as immediate, strategic support during a sudden crisis. In addition to his crisis work, Nathan also assists clients with general communications support, messaging as well as earned & owned … Continued

Alyson Marchi-Young

As Director of Communications, Alyson drives internal communications for S360 and supports client needs across the firm footprint. Experienced in policy, non-profit, and corporate communications strategies, Alyson wields her diverse background to grow the impact and outreach of S360 clients across the West. She specializes in content development, creating compelling messages and human-centered stories to … Continued

WILL BADENHAUSEN

As the Director of Digital Media at S360, Will focuses on the strategy and planning for digital campaigns. He also helps manage and guide the DM Account Managers and DM Analyst, assisting them on day-to-day tasks within projects. As the former Analyst on the team, he believes that all great campaigns are born from insightful … Continued

Brick Kane

For over 18 years, Brick has successfully managed creative campaigns for a wide variety of private and public sector clients. From producing tv and radio commercials for Microsoft, Ben Bridge Jeweler and Sleep Country USA, to representing an agricultural cooperative in Iowa and coining our state’s current tagline for their sober driving campaign, “Drunk, Drugs … Continued

Sunshine Stevens

Sunshine brings nearly two decades of widely acclaimed advertising campaigns and design work for some of the most recognizable brands across the country including Nike, Fruit of the Loom, Godiva Chocolates, Dairy Queen, Gallo WInes, Rainier Beer, Blue Bunny Ice Cream and more.   Sunshine has called Seattle home for over 20 years. She served as … Continued

Keisha Phillips

Keisha works with the S360 digital team to execute campaigns conveying client messages to target audiences across various online channels. Before joining S360 in 2016, Keisha interned for a global social network working on digital outreach and social media management. In her spare time, Keisha enjoys reading, playing with her dog, and cooking. Over the … Continued

Arnold Phommavong

Arnold Phommavong has been a creative director and designer for the past 10 years. He brings a human-centered approach to uncovering and solving brand and creative challenges. Arnold begins solving every problem by building a deep empathy for who he is designing for—understanding end-user needs, motivations, and challenges to create beautiful and seamless experiences in … Continued

Matt Davidson

Matt runs our Digital Marketing Group, increasing visibility and results for clients across a broad range of online marketing channels, including display advertising, email marketing and mobile ads. With spending on digital advertising rapidly growing, Matt develops effective digital marketing for a wide variety of clients and projects. Prior to joining S360, Matt owned the … Continued

KAREN WATERS

Karen helps oversee the growth and stability of S360’s Pacific Northwest offices. She uses her extensive knowledge of government relations, public affairs, and communications to work on cross-disciplinary, national and international projects for clients across the firm footprint. With her in-depth history in education policy, Karen also runs Strategies 360’s education division. A passionate advocate … Continued

Craig Kanaya

Craig brings nearly 20 years of public relations, education, community outreach and non-profit experience to his work for Strategies 360’s clients. He helps clients reach their goals by developing communications strategies, press releases and key messages, creative assets including infographics, videos and fact sheets, on-the-ground outreach and event management. As part of his work at … Continued