George Grattan

Current

Marketing and Digital Communications Strategist at Earthwatch Institute

Past

Associate Director at The Urban Ecology Institute
Visiting Adjunct Professor at College of the Holy Cross

Education

Boston College
University of Virginia
College of the Holy Cross

Mattituck High School

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George Grattan’s Summary

I offer a unique combination of strategic, marketing, communications, public relations, managerial, and analytical skills honed in the development, environmental, non-profit and academic sectors. I am an experienced writer and a creative colleague used to developing messages and managing outreach efforts to a wide range of internal and external audiences. I am mission-driven, adaptable, inventive, and committed to creating and maintaining positive working relationships.

George Grattan’s Specialties:

Designing and implementing communications campaigns to donors, volunteers, partners, and the general public across a range of media; public speaking; editing and writing for a wide range of audiences, including writing for the web, grant writing, and editing scientific language for the general reader; developing strategic communications partnerships with external stakeholders.

George Grattan’s Experience

Marketing and Digital Communications Strategist

Earthwatch Institute

(Non-Profit; Renewables & Environment industry)

January 2008 — Present (2 years )

Develop and implement print, web, rich media, and other communications strategies and partnerships for Earthwatch, the world's largest volunteer environmental non-profit, which sponsors research projects in dozens of countries worldwide and places more than 3,000 volunteers a year in the field to work toward a sustainable future.
Associate Director

The Urban Ecology Institute

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Environmental Services industry)

September 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 4 months)

Associate Director for Development, Director of Public Relations and Fund Raising.
Visiting Adjunct Professor

College of the Holy Cross

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

September 2004 — May 2006 (1 year 9 months)

Full time visiting professor in English Department, teaching composition, American Literature, African-American Literature, and environmental literature and culture courses.

George Grattan’s Education

Boston College

PhD , English , 1995 — 2006
University of Virginia

MA , English , 1992 — 1994
College of the Holy Cross

1988 — 1991
Mattituck High School

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George Grattan’s Interests:

Environmental communications and education, academic and non profit administration, non profit communications, economic justice and sustainable development, interdisciplinary connections between science and literary/cultural issues, sustainable business models, marketing, and communication, new communications technology.