Professional Experience:
Carole Douglis is an award-winning writer, international communication strategist, and trainer.
Currently she is communications manager and specialist for USAID/Kenya. She reinvented the website--now most often cited as the one other USAID Missions wish to emulate--and produced sought-after, illustrated wall-calendars and annual reports. She oversaw extensive 50th-anniversary celebrations, including documentary films, a professional photography exhibit, and a gala.
Carole’s investigative journalism on energy and environment has been featured in the Atlantic Monthly, World Watch, Wilderness, Omni Magazine, Harper’s and other publications. She has also written extensively for National Geographic Society (NGS) books and CDs—and first the NGS's first comprehensive piece on climate change.
As a consultant, Carole has provided messaging, strategy, and other communication expertise to organizations including UNICEF, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the World Bank, African Wildlife Foundation, Academy for Educational Development, and wildlife conservancies.
Carole’s communication consulting and training work has taken her to Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Somalia, India, Indonesia and the Philippines. Her highly practical, participatory, and praised classes include:
· Writing to Win
· Supercharged Presentations
· Masterful Media Interviews
· Telling the Story of Your Work: Case Studies and Success Stories
· Playshops: Creativity and Communication.
As becomes clear in her classes, Carole is a specialist in improvisational comedy theater. She is the founding director of W.I.T!—Washington Improv Theater—and has taught, directed and/or performed improv for more than 15 years.
She finds that non-traditional communication channels often offer surprising benefits to clients. For instance, commissioned by UNEP, Carole wrote a series of seven environmental storybooks for children. The books have been lauded by the late Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, environmental ministers and other policymakers from around the world, plus teachers, parents--and kids.
Carole holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University and an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in international development, food and agriculture, and environment.