https://www.samwaterstone.com/home daily 1.0 2025-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecf38abfc6e564e6533d014/9cf76f06-edf2-47dd-beda-b18a2d72dd60/Screenshot+2025-08-03+at+7.19.49%E2%80%AFPM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecf38abfc6e564e6533d014/eb2168ed-27c7-4a62-af9d-31d4287de82b/photo+mar+16%2C+16+22+49.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecf38abfc6e564e6533d014/db9eaabc-a246-412c-84f9-0cb74f469d1c/IMG_9706.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecf38abfc6e564e6533d014/bdc355c4-7ca9-4ec8-9631-c689e7b02ab4/ST+Blog+2_photo.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecf38abfc6e564e6533d014/b132ca32-d457-4a91-afc5-0988a86b96c6/Untitled+design.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecf38abfc6e564e6533d014/a9a0aec6-4359-4dfa-90d4-bf49b53615b8/D223FF7B-194A-4A24-A543-6B46889A7430+2.jpg https://www.samwaterstone.com/writing daily 0.75 2025-10-23 https://www.samwaterstone.com/consulting daily 0.75 2025-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecf38abfc6e564e6533d014/1611024451053-O88EYQD3SOTAY2H7LQMJ/2141b6cf-0060-4042-a8a5-e81e099b8e08.jpg Consulting - New Leaf Change New Leaf was a nonprofit based in Cape Town, South Africa that helped grow micro and small businesses to uplift their communities through economic development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecf38abfc6e564e6533d014/1610996683330-IGWZ9GPL162V3XX298DT/Rubys+Place+Logo.png Consulting - Ruby’s Place Ruby’s Place is an innovative Bay Area nonprofit committed to ending domestic violence, human trafficking, and violent crime, through hope, advocacy, and connection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecf38abfc6e564e6533d014/1611022136674-IU7Z14SUDUOHC4PGK35G/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-01-18%2Bat%2B6.07.11%2BPM.jpg Consulting - Greenspot Farming Greenspot Farming brings farming to the sharing economy, and is working to create a world in which food is grown, harvested, and eaten locally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecf38abfc6e564e6533d014/1611022892457-PBT89LKTMXFXMJK2YII2/_DSC4018%2B%25281%2529.jpg Consulting - GoSkateMove GoSkateMove (formerly “Goleta Skateboarding Movement”) seeks to provide recreational opportunities for youth by planning and building skateparks in Santa Barbara County. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecf38abfc6e564e6533d014/1610997636553-JEAFMHZHN8V2ZGV6YHXK/UCSB%2BESS%2BPhoto.jpg Consulting - UCSB Exercise & Sport Studies Ruby’s Place provide innovative, scientifically based knowledge that enables students to model healthy lifestyles, to prepare for advanced study and to be future leaders in the disciplines of health, wellness and sport. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecf38abfc6e564e6533d014/1611022531101-53WDO0UGH6XDJRX7P2QN/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-01-18%252Bat%252B6.13.17%252BPM.jpg Consulting - Lesbian Game Changers Game Changers educates young adults by providing valuable resource books and films that help foster an atmosphere of LGBTQ+ visibility, inclusion, acceptance and pride. https://www.samwaterstone.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-01-27 https://www.samwaterstone.com/about daily 0.75 2025-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ecf38abfc6e564e6533d014/8b8c6ed4-2025-4fd1-bb3d-8001ff1a1358/dsc03724.jpg About - About Me With a background in both domestic philanthropy and international development – as well as deep experience in the sports industry – I’m passionate about leveraging strategic communications and purpose-driven partnerships to support programs that drive meaningful social change. As a communications specialist, development strategist, and nonprofit operations leader, I work at the intersection of mission and message. I design equitable solutions to complex social issues, mobilize resources from values-aligned individuals and institutions, and elevate the stories that inspire collective action. Currently, I serve as Communications Manager at Mount Tamalpais College, where I lead messaging and storytelling efforts to expand access to higher education for incarcerated individuals at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and beyond. Our mission is to foster civic engagement, equity, critical thought, and personal agency – inside and outside prison walls. Previously, I served as Director of Communications for Shooting Touch, an international sport-for-development nonprofit with programs in the Unites States and East Africa. In this role, I spent three years working on-ground in Rwanda to expand access to basketball-for-development programs in rural communities, utilizing the power of sport to improve public health, gender equality, and upward mobility opportunities for thousands of youth, women, and their families. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, I’m deeply passionate about social justice, global equity, African history and contemporary studies, the environment, and the role of sport and new media in advancing cultural movements and community power. I hold a B.A. in Communication with honors from UC Santa Barbara, along with a Certificate in Sport Management. Learn More: Writing | Consulting | Contact