Stephen joined Sound’s Board in September 2023. He believes passionately 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 last 15+ years in digital marketing and fundraising for a range of nonprofits, brands and political clients including, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, UNICEF USA, Medicine Sans Frontiers, CARE, Partners in Health, Teach for America, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, MIT, Colgate, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Purina and many more. His passion is helping organizations work across strategy, technology, creative and organizational design to scale their impact.
Stephen was also a senior member of the Obama Digital team in 2008 and 2012 that revolutionized the way the internet was used to mobilize voters. In 2012, he oversaw all video production for the campaign where he built a 30 person in house studio that produced over a thousand videos including ads, and short narrative and documentary pieces.
He has a BFA in Film Production from Chapman University and a minor in Psychology.
