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2022 Starting Pitcher Prospect Rankings
Posted by Kevin Cunningham | Feb 18, 2022 | Prospect Rankings & Reports | 0
Two years ago, starting pitching was easily the weakest position in the system, a group that was missing both stardom at the top, and depth among the rest. Well, the Giants have changed that.
This list of ten players features 7 pitchers who made their debut in 2021. There are three draft picks from 2020, and two drafted in 2021, and they make up five of the top six players on the list. Throw in a trade for a recent draft pick who hadn't yet made his debut, and a 2019 international signing, and you have a revamped list of pitching for the Giants.
The system isn't perfect. There's no real future ace in the system, though they have a couple of guys who have a ceiling of a #2 starter in a good rotation. But what absolutely is true, there is now a lot of depth. The system should spend the next few years promoting a number of interesting pitchers on a regular-ish basis.
#1 – Kyle Harrison
Prospect Report Here
Not the first round pick of the 2020 Giants pick, but definitely the highlight of it, local boy Kyle Harrison had a breakout year in San Jose. Harrison has been quick to move up everyone's ranks, and is considered a Top 100 prospect overall by many, so how could he be anywhere but at the top?
#2 – Will Bednar
The 2021 first round pick by the Giants, Bednar was the Most Outstanding Player in the College World Series after leading Mississippi State to the title over the favored Vanderbilt Commodores. He hasn't had much chance to show anything in the pros yet, but 2022 could be his year.
#3 – Nick Swiney
A surprise concussion stole away much of his 2021, but when Swiney was on the mound, he was dominating the competition in Low-A. The lefty could be a huge breakout candidate for the 2022 season.
#4 – Matt Mikulski
The Giants got a steal in the 2nd round of the 2021 draft, as college senior Mikulski was still there after going undrafted in 2020 and using that as fuel to make some dominating adjustments. With some serious strikeout material, it'll be interesting to see where he goes after a full season in the pros.
#5 – Sean Hjelle
The guy who's known for being tall tripped up on some roadblocks on his first trip to Triple-A. However, with some adjustments, and a baseball that's not the lively 2020 MLB baseball, Hjelle could get back on track and make a Major League impact this year.
#6 – Ryan Murphy
It's fair to say that a lot of people overlooked Murphy as the final pick in the 2020 draft (albeit in just the fifth round). An excellent year has caught the attention of most, and it'll be worth watching where Murphy can go now that he won't be sneaking up on anyone.
#7 – Seth Corry
Corry still has a dominating fastball and curveball…when he has control of them. Unfortunately, in Eugene in 2021, Corry didn't have much control over anything until the very end of the season. There might not be many more chances for Corry to pull his amazing stuff together.
#8 – Prelander Berroa
One of the Giants' mid-season trades in 2019, Berroa was one of the regular starters in High-A, though with some strict inning limits. If his control can improve, Berroa has some of the best potential to move far up this list in 2022.
#9 – Carson Ragsdale
The Giants pulled out a pitching prospect out of a preseason trade with the Phillies in 2021, and Ragsdale went on to be one of the top strikeout pitchers in all of the majors. Not bad, though the 6'8" pitcher is now only the second-tallest pitcher in the system.
#10 – Esmerlin Vinicio
One of the top signings of the 2019 international signing period for the Giants, Vinicio had a solid debut in Arizona. The lefty was the top pitcher at the rookie level for the team, and offers a solid chance to make it as a starter out of the group.
Other Prospects To Note:
It was an interesting year for Kai-Wei Teng, who struggled at times and gave up a lot of bases, but also had a ton of strikeouts. He just missed this list thanks to an inconsistent streak that was frustrating to deal with, though he finished strong…If the 2020 draft was really about Harrison, then some theorized the 2021 was really about high school senior Eric Silva, drafted in the 4th round. That doesn't track, as Silva didn't get a monster bonus to sign, but his mid-90's velocity could still grow, as does hopefully his control…Quietly, Wil Jensen had a solid year in San Jose, posting a 3.59 ERA and 109 strikeouts to 25 walks in 102.2 innings. The undrafted free agent might make this list if he can repeat in 2022…Down in Arizona, Trevor McDonald had a mixed year, with a 3.86 ERA in 15 games, but also one bad start in San Jose…Down on the Dominican, 19-year old Mikell Manzano posted 70 strikeouts to five walks in 48.1 innings across 12 games, 11 of which were starts. It's hard for any international signing to become a big leaguer, but 2021 was just his first year despite being 19, so Manzano might get the time to develop…It was a rough year for oft-injured Tristan Beck, who lost 2.5 months to injury after a rough start in Richmond. He finished with a 6.27 ERA overall across three levels…No one got big by the Triple-A jump harder than Matt Frisbee. Frisbee had a 1.24 ERA in Double-A after five starts, 32 strikeouts to one walks in 29.0 innings, jumped to Sacramento, and gave up 77 hits in 53.0 innings at the level. He got bounced back to Richmond where he seemed more human after the experience…The Giants like Conner Nurse a lot, and he started all season in Eugene, but gave up 112 hits to 114 strikeouts in 113 innings, headed to a 4.86 ERA
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AI-Powered Neurocognitive Assessment Platform Altoida Raises $20M
Nearly 6 million Americans live with Alzheimer's. Altoida's platform allows for early diagnosis and intervention.
Written byCharli Renken
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News Reporter at Built In
Charli Renken is a news reporter covering the tech industry in D.C., San Francisco and other markets. Their work has also appeared in publications including Fandom Forward, Block Club Chicago and the Denver Post.
Altoida CEO Travis Bond at Life Science Intelligence Emerging Medtech Summit. | Photo: Altoida / LinkedIn
According to the Alzheimer Association, nearly 6 million Americans live with Alzheimer's. That number is growing every year. The organization predicts that by 2050, as many as 14 million may be diagnosed with dementia. Early diagnosis and treatment is vital to mitigating the disease. However, conventional biomarkers and cognitive assessment tools are often subjective, expensive even with insurance, and largely inaccessible due to long, in-person clinical visits. Thankfully, there are companies leveraging technology to make early detection and diagnosis more accessible.
Altoida, a D.C.-based neurology assessment company that recently raised $20.3 million in Series A funding, uses AI and augmented reality (AR) technology to upgrade conventional neurocognitive assessments. Users simply complete a 10-minute set of digital test activities on a smartphone or tablet. The test uses AR to simulate daily real-world activities, collecting data about a patient's cognitive function. The platform then uses AI to analyze the test results to help diagnose neurological diseases like Alzheimer's.
"Altoida's platform is the first to use augmented reality as the framework to simulate activities of daily living, and to leverage AI to develop scientifically-validated neurological disease diagnostics," the company's CEO Travis Bond said in a statement. "Our unique team of experts across neurology, machine learning, and digital biomarker science position us well to execute on our vision to deliver early and accurate brain health measurements and diagnostics to individuals across the world."
Also in DCGoogle and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser Launch $1M Grant for Tech Job Training
The Altoida platform. | Photo: Altoida
Altoida's technology solves several issues with conventional neurological testing, one of the largest being accessibility. For patients living in rural areas, the cost and time of traveling to the nearest clinic is often too great a barrier. With Altoida, more patients can be screened for cognitive diseases from the comfort of their own homes.
Armed with new funds, Altoida plans to hire new talent across its medical, scientific, engineering and commercial teams to accelerate research and product development. The company hopes to soon add diagnosis capabilities for other neurological diseases such as Parkinson's and schizophrenia, an endeavor that will also be aided by its Series A round.
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Experience the Podcast
Chris Voss, former hostage negotiator, CEO & authorLearn the art of influence from a former hostage negotiator who uses a variety of concepts to persuade almost anyone to keep talking.
Dealing with a rent increase at your brick-and-mortar? Haggling with a vendor about terms and conditions? Running a small business is hard, and most how-to books for entrepreneurs don't cover the art of negotiation.
Luckily, former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss joined our podcast to share tips and guidance to help you win deals and reach settlements with confidence. Hear six concepts (and much more) designed to help you close more contracts, overcome objections and establish rapport with employees, landlords and others.
In a previous episode with Chris Voss, who worked for the FBI in the Crisis Negotiation Unit, he shares the framework for a successful negotiation that entrepreneurs like you can use.
Today, Chris shares in-depth lessons he's learned throughout his decades-long career in law enforcement and hostage negotiation, giving practical advice that both individual business owners and business organizations can implement to win almost any exchange.
As Chris demonstrates, the language you use matters — but staying quiet can be impactful, too. If his tips and tools work on cunning criminals, they're sure to be powerful in your day-to-day duties as an entrepreneur, too.
Whether you want to better understand your employees or persuade your landlord to reconsider the latest rent hike, give this episode a listen for guidance to effectively run your business and navigate the best deals with compelling confidence.
Below is an edited transcript of the conversation. In the episode, you'll hear:
The negotiation concept of mirroring — and how it encourages a conversation to continue
During negotiation, what role does staying silent play?
How can labeling, a style of verbal observation, win someone over?
Often, asking "What?" or "How?" is more effective than asking "Why?"
How a concept called "That's right" creates a powerful bond built on understanding
A bold tactic: Outlast your competition by simply refusing to give up
If you're the sum of the five people you spend time with, make it count
Chris Allen: Well, welcome back. Hopefully we're not tuckering you out too bad. You being a morning person and everything. I'm on my second glass of coffee here.
Chris Voss: Caffeine — it's a jet fuel.
C. Allen: Yeah. Well, one of the things that we were talking about is systems and frameworks. And I have a deep appreciation for those because if you have a library of them and you have a situation in life, it helps you think about a problem without you having to sort of master the details of everything and process all the details. You have a framework for thinking through it.
C. Allen: And that is one of the things that is like, I'd say substantive, but also super impressive about what you've been able to do. And how you've expressed this art of negotiation, the athleticism — if you will — the intellectual athleticism that it takes, that it's like a muscle. But I want to talk through some of the techniques that you use in some situations that would have a lot of applicability to entrepreneurs and give them your library of some of the frameworks and situations that they'll likely encounter that you already have the information on.
Chris Voss: OK.
C. Allen: So one of them is mirroring. Seems so simple.
Chris Voss: Right. Mirroring is repeating the last one to three words of what somebody's just said. It's not the body language mirror, and it's not mimicking the other person. It's repeating the last one to three-ish words, could be just one word, could be no more than five. Now, when you get really good at mirroring or you get used to it, you get your results reps in. And does it have to be the last one to three words? No, you can move it around. You could selectively mirror. But mirroring is a great reflex to build because when you're caught off guard, you could always mirror. And it gives you an opportunity to get your feet back under you, intellectually and mentally. And it also gets the other person to continue talking.
Chris Voss: People who are high IQ and high EQ love mirrors. I don't know why that is, but anytime somebody's really into mirrors, only as a skill, I'll find out that they have both high IQ and high EQ. And many high IQ people rely on it so much that they don't bother with their EQ. They think their IQ is enough. There's a phrase [that says] "IQ will get you hired, EQ will get you fired." You can't keep a job and do well at a job without EQ. You can get in the door with an impressive resume and be a complete and utter failure, because you don't have any people skills. But the mirror is a great reflex tool for any given moment. It will bail you out. Or it's a great substitute to get to say to someone, "Can you please go on? What do you mean by that?" It's a great connector of thoughts.
C. Allen: So it's almost like an invitation. If you mirror somebody in the last couple of things, they're like, "Oh, I should keep talking."
Chris Voss: I like that a lot. Yeah, that's right. It feels like an invitation to continue to talk, which people are more likely to respond to and expand on because they don't feel like they're being interrogated or cornered. And no matter how well intentioned, what do you mean by that is, there's an element of interrogation to that regardless. So the mirror's a great skill. I do it automatically because I know that the person hearing it, as you said, they feel the invitation, they feel encouraged. They want to go on. And most importantly, they'll expand or change the words. You could say something to me and if I say "What do you mean by that?" you might repeat it exactly the way you just said it, word for word.
Chris Voss: Maybe even louder. Like an American overseas, "Where is the train? Where is the train?" What do you mean? The train. But if you mirror somebody, there's something that kicks in their brain where they're going to expand, reword, they're going to change. And that's another reason why it's better than saying, "What do you mean by that?" Because you're going to change what you just said. Because if I mirror you, part of what you hear is "OK, I got the words, but they weren't enough." And I need you to reword it because I'm having trouble catching on. And that message comes across really subtly and gently and it lands well.
C. Allen: Yeah. The other thing that I thought was interesting is the use of silence. Because if you pair that mirroring with the use of silence people are like, "I'm going to give you more." And the thing that I really like about all of the things [we're about to discuss] is that authenticity and trust building happens by doing some of these techniques. And how that's the basis for opening up this world of more information. Which is where you start to identify sort of what we were talking about earlier, which is those black swans.
Chris Voss: Right. So before I comment on the authenticity and trust building, I'm going to go back to something you said just a second ago, about silence. And two out of three people are uncomfortable with silence for two completely different reasons. So, the world splits evenly into thirds: fight, flight or make friends. It's that way in China, Pakistan, India, South America, the Middle East and the United States. Fight, flight or make friends. Silence is uncomfortable for the make friends type because for the make friends type, the worst thing they could do to somebody is give them the silent treatment.
Chris Voss: So if they go silent, they're horrified that the other person thinks they're angry. So their instinctive reaction to silence is "I can't use dynamic silence because they're going to think I'm angry." Not the case. Because the one type that likes silence, the flight — also known as the analyst — loves to think. They're grateful when you shut up, because they want to think.
Chris Voss: So you imagine the analyst talking to the accommodator, and the analyst is like, "I just need some time to think. I'm going to go silent for a second." And the accommodator's thinking, "Oh my God, he's angry. I got to talk. I got to talk. I got to break the silence." It's an impasse due to type mismatch. Now the other person, the fight type, the assertive — I'm a natural-born assertive, Donald Trump's an assertive, I'm an assertive — we think if you go silent that's because you want to hear more. You want me to explain something to you? You shut up because you want to listen. Again, imagine the analytical type who shuts up because he wants to think. And I go, "Oh, you want to hear more?" And I start yakking away at you.
C. Allen: It's another mismatch.
Chris Voss: Yeah. Another mismatch. But I feel in control when I'm talking. So I don't want to go silent. But silence is typically the opportunity to think or the opportunity to react. I'll go silent on you if you're assertive because I want you to talk yourself into my deal. And so with the assertive, it's easy to talk them into your deal if you're willing to let him talk. So silence is a great advantage.
Chris Voss: Or if you're a relationship-oriented person, I'll go silent on you because you're going to want to talk. And you're going to want to build on the relationship and you're going to want to discover what makes a great relationship. So I'm going to let you talk about it. And if you're an analytical person, I'm going to go silent with you because you're going to want to think. And so I increase trust and rapport with you, which was the other thing you were just talking about, if I shut up and let you think. You're not going to feel backed into a corner, you're not going to feel that you're trying to overwhelm me with facts or you're trying to learn everything about me personally. Which if you're an analyst, you don't want to give up all that personal information. You don't want to tell me if your kids played little league baseball.
C. Allen: Yeah. There's going to be some withholding there.
Chris Voss: You're not comfortable.
Chris V: So silence, as a tool, is tremendously powerful in diagnosing who I'm dealing with.
C. Allen: See, that's a big one. I like that framework. One of the things we were talking about is that there is a threshold that crosses over from sales and into negotiation. You see that threshold when an expression is "I want" or "I need." And when you don't know you've crossed over that threshold, that's a tough one. But one of the things that you were just saying is that in preparation for that threshold, you need to understand sort of one of the three types that you're dealing with. The assertive, the accommodator and the analyst.
C. Allen: That is an important thing because the use of the framework matters to the type.
Chris Voss: Yeah.
C. Allen: What I'm understanding you're saying about negotiation is [that it's] being able to understand who you're dealing with and how to use these tools.
Chris Voss: Right. And you may need to use the tools to diagnose who you're dealing with. Because you might not know in advance.
C. Allen: What's a way to figure out which type you're dealing with once you've crossed over that threshold?
Chris Voss: Well, the other two types will often make accommodations because they've learned the advantage of being friendly. Analysts pick it up sooner than assertives do. My daughter-in-law is an analyst, and people that meet her are convinced she's an accommodator. Because she laughs and she giggles and she's super friendly and she likes to talk about stuff she's excited about. But she's very analytical and she's really, really smart. And as an analyst, her analytical brain kicked into gear and said, "I get better deals if I'm friendly."
Chris Voss: And so she's friendly. Like, for a while, she worked in my company and she ran a marketing operation for a while. Phenomenal marketer. And one of our vendors was re-upping our annual rate. Every time they pitched her on the price, she would just laugh and laugh and they dropped their price and then she'd just respond by laughing some more, and they'd drop the price again. So the other two types, they're going to make better deals by being friendlier.
C. Allen: Yeah.
Chris Voss: So the assertive is direct and honest and blunt and harsh. And as an assertive, one of my colleagues in the FBI once said to me, "Dealing with you is like getting hit in the face with a brick." Because I wasn't [using] the late-night FM DJ voice with my colleagues. I wasn't being soothing and calming and reassuring when I wanted something from them. I was myself, which is assertive. It's like getting hit in the face with a brick. So the other two types were never going to make you feel like you got hit in a face with a brick. That's always going to be an assertive type.
C. Allen: I'm familiar with that one.
Chris Voss: So neither of the other two types will ever give you that. So if you think somebody's an assertive, because they've been beating you with a baseball bat, they are. And now the analyst. The analyst is extremely thoughtful and will often come off as cold and distant. The only people that ever come off cold and distant are the analysts.
Chris Voss: Now they're not cold and distant, but they're very guarded. They're no less or no more warm than anybody else. Everybody has friends. Everybody else is warm with people who are their friends. Analysts had the same capacity for that. Everybody does. But they have a tendency to come off as cold and distant. It's like the late-night FM DJ voice with no emotion, no reassurance, nothing. Just cold. The analyst will only come off as that. Knowing each one, assertives like making decisions. Time is money. Analysts will make a great decision, but they need 36 hours. There was an analyst CEO at a company we were training, and before we got up to train, he had given his people some advice on how to conduct themselves. And he said, "Never respond to any email sooner than 36 hours." When you send an email, you want an answer that day.
C. Allen: The assertive was like, "What are we waiting on?"
Chris Voss: Yeah, they're sitting there tapping their feet. But understand that the analyst, they look like they avoid decisions. And one of the frameworks calls them avoiders, which is a misnomer. They're analytical. But they avoid instantaneous decisions. So give them 36 hours. Again, my daughter-in-law, my son told me that one boss that she used to work for, she'd just lay out the data and leave and expect the decision the next day and get it the next day. An accommodator, they're open to any decision as long as you're still friends, which means as a general rule, they get pushed around as salespeople and as negotiators.
C. Allen: Yeah, yeah. That is true. But understanding who you're dealing with is important. And building trust with that person's important. So you're trying to do both of those things, understand who they are in order to build trust. [Can we] talk about maybe labeling and bringing in some of the tactical empathy stuff? I like the accusation audit, some of those techniques that you have are kind of progressing into that trust building, that aspect. How do you use those once you've identified who you're working with?
Chris Voss: Well, they're also great for diagnosing who you're dealing with. And if we had this data on the three types, which we do, what we always did was [group people into types and] give them a very specific test. Then we ask each group, "What negotiation skills would you like to have used on you to make a great deal with you?"
Chris Voss: And all three types liked labels and mirrors; it may not be their number one, but it's always in their top three. So early on, you're very safe, it's your best bet to label and mirror when you're still trying to get a feel for the other side. Because everybody likes it. Now, the label's just a verbal observation. On a hotline, the FBI would call it emotion labeling. It's a self-defining skill in the black swan method, but we just call it labels. Because we're labeling dynamics, your body language. You look like you're having a bad day, would be a pretty good label if you saw somebody that looked tense [whose] thoughts are far away. Or maybe it looks like you're preoccupied but having a neutral day. Those are labels of affects.
Chris Voss: It's just [putting] a label on it. Now people love it because it makes them feel seen, paid attention to, and it lands really well. Plus your observation can be wrong, but it's your observation. So it's a safe thing to do. "Looks like you're having a bad day." "No, I'm having a fine day." "Alright, well, it's just how it looks." I'm not saying you are, I'm just saying it looks like or sounds like.
C. Allen: Or seems like.
Chris Voss: Or it seems like [you are]. Those are basically the precursors for the labels. So then to dig deeper into it, you can label positives or negatives. We talked earlier that people are principally in a default mode, their wiring is negative. Survival wiring, which is the wiring that you wake up with, is your default wiring and it can be largely negative. That was required when we were getting chased by saber-toothed tigers. "Well, I'm positive. That's a saber-toothed tiger. I bet I could go up and pet it." You know what? That guy got eaten.
C. Allen: How hard could it be?
Chris Voss: How hard could it be? So those guys got eaten. The pessimists were all descendants of pessimists. So our default wiring is negative.
C. Allen: Because that's where we're comfortable.
Chris Voss: You feel safe. You feel like the 50 things that could go wrong, [you're] going to plan for all of them, so [you] feel safe. So then neuroscience comes along and tells us that the best way to deactivate the negatives is to label them, hang a label on it. That was a great thing about hostage negotiation. They just told us to label the tone of voice. Tone of voice was almost always going to be negative. It was almost always going to be angry. You're trapped in a bank [with a] terrorist who has a kidknap victim, [you're] going to sound angry.
Chris Voss: We didn't realize that it was sound from a neuroscience perspective, in that labeling negatives is the most effective way to diffuse them. Not the only way — just the most effective way. Doesn't work 100% of the time. Nothing works 100% of the time. It just works more than anything else does. We live in a Las Vegas world, which means you got to play the odds. We do not live in an ivory tower world, which is something that's perfect. That works all the time. You got to play the odds. There are some ways to deactivate negatives that work on a very low percentage basis.
Chris Voss: You got to get off the 10% win table at Vegas and you got to move to the 80% win table. That's how you make money. You go to your best chance of success. And labeling negatives is the best chance. Sometimes [it's]: "You're from Iowa. I'm from Iowa." Now [they] feel better. That's a low-percentage win. You win occasionally. Just not as much as you should. "Oh, I went through the same thing as you." That's an extremely low-percentage win, stop doing it. Go to the high-percentage win. "It sounds like this really hurts you." Suicide hotline. How am I going to have the same loss that somebody else had? At the time I was volunteering, I hadn't lost anybody in my family. Somebody's devastated over the loss of a parent. What am I going to say? "I lost my dog." No, I can't have a similar loss.
Chris Voss: It's a low-percentage move. Sounds like it tore your heart out. That's a label. And adding in a description. "Sounds like you're sad." You raised the level of your game. What does this sadness do to you? What does the loss do to you? Makes you feel like your heart got ripped out. That's a label. That's empathy. I never said it happened to me. I never said I agreed. I never said I understood. I demonstrated I understood. And the rest flows out of that. So the labels are really the demonstration of understanding, which tends to have a phenomenally positive impact on the receiver.
C. Allen: Yeah. That's incredible. I wonder [how] the calibrated questions [come into play]. These are some of the things that I looked at as maybe more advanced moves, because if you understand mirroring and you understand labeling, you can sort of practice those. Those [tactics] seem easier. The calibrated questions seem like a more advanced move.
Chris Voss: Yeah, they can be. But you can lay a framework to make it easier for yourself. And the first framework is [to] take open-ended questions and just knock most of them out and just go "what" and "how" only. Rarely "why." Why is a tactical empathy, a surgical strike. "Why" makes people defensive, and the vast majority of time it's against your interests to make them defensive. Now, if you get them to defend you, then that works for you, but they have to be defending you in order to make "why" work. So other than that, "what" and "how." People love to be asked "what," people love to be asked "how." They feel very deferential. So if you limit it to "what" and "how," you're probably in pretty good shape. It's the very first story in "Never Split the Difference."
Chris Voss: How am I supposed to do that? It's a "how" question. It feels deferential to the other side. Now, to add a little bit to your thinking, to give you a framework, "how" is designed to reveal implementation. Either the difficulty of implementation or guidance for implementation. If you are in a negotiation and you're asking me to do something, I can't just do it. But if you say, "How am I supposed to do that?" then that's designed to [help you] see how difficult implementation is going to be for me. That works a lot of the time.
Chris Voss: Now, there's never a time that it doesn't work. There's a time you get different answers. "How am I supposed to do that?" is so powerful that when it gets a different answer, people's brains lock up. They don't know what to do. They don't know what to say. They haven't practiced mirroring. Earlier we talked about mirroring. Mirroring is a skill that you use when you're completely flummoxed.
C. Allen: You're disoriented. That's what we were talking about, yeah.
Chris Voss: So "How am I supposed to do that?" is so effective that only one in 10 times it doesn't work. And if you use it, you're going to use it 10, 15 or 20 times. Because it works so well you're going to do it again. People we've coached have gotten so reliant on it. They've said, "It didn't work. It failed me." And I said, "No, it didn't fail you. It gave you a different answer that [caught you off-guard]." If I'm trying to tell you the implementation is impossible and you fire back at me right away, "That's your problem," what you've just told me is you don't care about me.
Chris Voss: Now that's good information to have if I realize that that's what I'm getting, the skill didn't fail. It gave me a different answer.
C. Allen: Different information.
Chris Voss: I'm dealing with someone who doesn't care about me. I'm smarter. I don't like that information. But every time I go from wondering to knowing, I'm always smarter [and can] recalibrate or change my battle plan. So, "how" is about implementation. "What" is about uncovering problems. Now you can see how they go hand in hand. Use "what" to uncover a problem, use "how" to figure out how to overcome the problem. What's the biggest challenge you face? Is it about me and you figuring out what the problems are? What are the problems? How are we going to overcome those? So then the two become complementary, if you understand what they're primarily designed for.
C. Allen: Yeah. And if you've established trust and you understand who the individual is that you're dealing with [from] the dialogue [you've had], that's when you start to find the black swans.
Chris Voss: Either you'll tell me something that you've been holding back because the use of labels makes you trust me. You develop a rapport, you feel listened to. If I really am listening to labels, I'm going deep into the surface. If you're angry — anger is a resultant emotion — it results from a sense of loss or personal hurt.
Chris Voss: So if you're angry and I know it results from loss, instead of saying "You sound angry," I may say, "You sound hurt." You're going to feel like I've really caught onto something there. You're really going to feel that I'm seeing something in you. It's going to build trust. It's going to incline you to reveal stuff. Again I'll quote Huberman, because all this stuff is designed to trigger oxytocin. We're going to get to the "That's right" moment [soon]. "That's right" is the oxytocin moment. Oxytocin is a neurochemical, the bonding drug. If you get a hit of oxytocin, you're going to feel bonded to me. I'm not going to feel bonded to you, but you're going to feel bonded to me. Every time you feel understood, you're going to get a hit of oxytocin. You're going to trust me more. And then the kicker is that oxytocin inclines you towards the truth. I didn't know that until last year.
C. Allen: Wow. Wait, so when you feel understood, you get a hit of oxytocin? Wow, that is unbelievable.
Chris Voss: It's mind boggling.
C. Allen: So it's an orientation towards the truth. What was the last thing you said?
Chris Voss: Yeah. You're more inclined to be honest with me.
C. Allen: Oh, wow.
Chris Voss: If I figure out a way to get you to start getting hits of oxytocin, you're going to bond to me and you're going to be more honest with me. What more do you want in a negotiation? Because now if you're going to be inclined to tell the truth [especially where] you've been holding back. Now the innocuous stuff is where the real gold is. Because since you don't know what I'm holding back.
C. Allen: Your personal context. I don't know it.
Chris Voss: There's going to be some stuff that's truly important that you're just not going to mention. Because you don't know what's important. And again, those are black swans. You had no way of knowing it was important because I'm holding stuff back, too. And so as the conversation flows and you start to throw something out, the chances increase that you'll throw something out that's like, "Holy cow." And I'll give you an example: a woman in Hollywood, she's a filmmaker and she makes these action films where women are superheroes. Mostly martial arts stuff, not like X-Men or mutant stuff. But she's trying to secure funding for one of her films from an investor, another woman. And she's having trouble getting the money, but she's mirroring and labeling the woman. And just out of the blue, the woman that's the investor reveals that she owns a castle in France.
Chris Voss: This is going to be the perfect setting for the second film. You're going to go from being a producer to executive producer. [So she's thinking], "I thought [we were] talking about a single picture deal, and now we're talking about two or three pictures."
C. Allen: Changes the game.
Chris Voss: And she was just mirroring and labeling. And the woman who's trying to invest in a movie in Hollywood, that's going to be filmed in Hollywood with a budget limited to Hollywood. She has no reason to think that this castle she owns in France is going to have any impact on a deal at all. She did not mention it because she didn't think it's important, but it comes out. And the woman that's studying the black swan method is like, "What? How did she know to ask for that?" [It's like,] "Oh, by the way, you don't happen to own any castles in France, do you?" You're not going to bring that up. So it was a great example of a black swan that fell out of the sky based on labels and mirrors. And then somebody brings up something innocuous inadvertently, and it's a game-changing moment.
C. Allen: Yeah. Well, we talked about being comfortable with no and getting to "That's right" which I thought was a pivotal moment in the book.
Chris Voss: I originally thought the "That's right" chapter was going to be the opening chapter. It was a chapter that sold the book to the publisher. Because he said nobody ever wrote a book before that wasn't about getting the yes. And you were saying like—
C. Allen: It's counterintuitive to what everyone else is doing.
Chris Voss: Completely different idea. The best part is this is not theoretical. You got example after example after example where it was a massively transformative negotiation, whether it was with a terrorist or a lawyer and a client or a landlord and a tenant when the "That's right" moment became a game-changer moment. [My son] Brandon likes to say the Jeff Schilling case in the Philippines was the birth of the "That's right" moment, but at the time I had no idea how important it was. I mean, to me it was just Empathy 101. Make the other person feel heard, completely heard, and make them feel heard by repeating back everything that they've said so that you leave them with nothing to say other than "That's right."
Chris Voss: Just that. And I meant it as a reset moment, but I didn't think it was going to be a massive reset. We got a very specific framework for teaching people how to do it now, [where] you list the facts and circumstances they had mentioned. Their facts. Not your facts, their facts. "So far, you've told me…" and "As a result, you feel…" which is essentially an inventory of the emotions: hurt, anger, [satisfaction], happ[iness], betray[al]. Whatever it is, whatever they've expressed.
Chris Voss: If you do it in that formula, you've [learned how they] feel and you're very close to getting [the] "That's right" moment. They get a hit of oxytocin, they feel understood.
C. Allen: They feel understood.
Chris Voss: Ideally, a truth is revealed to them. "That's right" is what people say when what they've heard is the complete truth. And we don't have the neuroscience to back it up yet, but we think it's the — I mean it both literally and figuratively — it's the Trump chemical. Donald Trump is only one example of charismatic leaders that have devoted followers who will follow them come what may. History is littered with these people. Then there are people who are not their followers who are thinking, "How are these people so devoted?"
Chris Voss: The devotion is there, and is unshakeable. And Donald Trump is simply the most recent example. He stood up in front of people and expressed ideas and [people] looked at the TV screen and said, "That's right." And they're bonded. I mean, no one can argue the degree of bonding with the people that are following Donald Trump. Or if you were a Barack Obama fan on the other side, Obama stands up in front of people and expresses how [his followers] feel and they say, "That's right." They bond. So this bonding moment, it's an incredibly durable bond and it's a one-way bond. Because for a whole variety of reasons, you don't have the ability to bond with all these people. It's a one-way bond, and it's ridiculously powerful.
Chris Voss: So we first got onto oxytocin because we knew "That's right" was big. Didn't know how big it was. But we had all of the qualitative data from game-changing moments. And we're writing it with Tahl Raz. And Tahl's a researcher. He says, "I think what happens when somebody says 'That's right' is they've experienced an epiphany of some sort, a subtle epiphany or major epiphany, but they've experienced an epiphany." So I'm like, "Alright, let me Google epiphany — the neurochemicals of epiphany. On the list of epiphany neurochemicals is oxytocin, the bonding drug. I'm like, "Bang, that's why it's so huge."
C. Allen: Yeah. That ratified it.
Chris Voss: And then five years later, Huberman says, "And people tell the truth." It's like, no wonder it's a game-changing moment.
C. Allen: What a discovery. It's an amazing discovery. I think it's important for entrepreneurs to really remember that this is... like working out, this is a muscle. This whole sort of thing is a muscle. And [to deeply understand it] requires practice, experience and research of new information. [It's an] orientation will help entrepreneurs in a big way.
Chris Voss: Yeah. And let me put a caveat on it, because there are a number of different people that have said the only sustainable competitive advantage is to learn faster than your competition. First attributed to a Shell executive 50 years ago, Jack Welch added another fine point: learn faster than your competition and [put the information into action]. Now here's how I would change that. You don't have to learn fast. You just have to keep learning.
Chris Voss: We teach people to learn a little bit every day, get 1% smarter. You don't have to learn fast; everybody else puts the emphasis on learning faster than your competition. I am here to tell you and your audience that your competition's going to quit. A friend of mine, Molly Bloom, likes to say "You can't lose if you don't quit." Your competition's going to quit. You know the old saying "There is no finish line?" I never liked it because my reaction was like, "Ah, geez."
C. Allen: Can I just run another race?
Chris Voss: Yeah. Can I take a break? There is no finish line. That's overwhelming. Well, your competition's going to quit. So if you're comfortable with your competition quitting, then you only have to learn a little bit at a time, and you have to not give up. And as long as you do those two things, as long as you're willing to just learn slowly, you're going to win. Because you didn't quit. They did. And you keep getting smarter, which accumulates over one year, two years, three years — then you are massively smarter than they are.
C. Allen: Yes. Never stop. Never stop. I love it. Well I have some rapid fire questions for you. You ready?
Chris Voss: Alright.
C. Allen: Do you ever feel guilty when you win an argument? Because you have a brutally unfair advantage.
Chris Voss: You can't win arguments. There's a phrase. And many phrases that are gender- or age-based are inaccurate because they're about human beings, and it has nothing to do with gender or age. So the inaccurate phrase is "There's two rules for arguing with women, and both of them are wrong." The true phrase is: "There's two rules for arguing with people, and both of them are wrong." Nobody wins an argument.
Chris Voss: So I don't argue. Now societally, we're taught the opposite by movies and TV. And lawyers love to make arguments. And in the movies and on TV, somebody makes an argument and then it's a transformative moment. And the angels appear and the birds chirp and the heavens part. And that's wrong. Nobody wins an argument. There are people who lose less, but you still lose. So yeah, I don't win arguments.
Chris Voss: And if I take a different position from somebody else, for me to want to have the arrogance that I might be completely right, I also have to recognize the other person might be completely right. And that's why you don't split the difference. They could be right. I've got to be open-minded enough to be smarter today than I was yesterday. You could be right. So if we have a difference of opinion, you might be right. And if I'm open to that, it increases my outcomes.
C. Allen: That's powerful. Well, with these negotiation techniques, what's the most common mistake or misuse that you've seen people make?
Chris Voss: A no-oriented question, using it out of context. Probably the most famous no-oriented question is "Have you given up on X?" Designed to be used when somebody's ghosting you. You're trying to revitalize a project. They've stopped responding to your emails and all that. If it's an opening line, it's manipulation.
Chris Voss: And I get emails and texts all the time, "Have you given up on hiring my company for your social media?" Well, since I never started, I couldn't have given up. Now, anytime I sense it's a manipulative use of one of my skills, I'll either block them or, occasionally, just to verify my instinct, I'll engage back and forth with this person a couple of times to verify my initial data. And I've never been proven wrong. Anytime somebody starts with, "Have you given up on…?" then they're a manipulative person using my method against me, in which case I simply stop talking to them. Or every now and then I'll say yes.
C. Allen: You ghost them and see if they say it again.
Chris Voss: Yeah. And then I'll say yes.
C. Allen: Well, do you have a favorite law or crime TV series?
Chris Voss: Wow. No.
C. Allen: Well, have you ever thought about acting? You'd kind of play a good hostage negotiator on TV.
Chris Voss: Yeah. Well the problem is the entertainment industry, unfortunately, is an industry where most of the core values don't match up with mine. So I choose not to make deals in the entertainment industry.
C. Allen: OK. Wow. That's good to know. Well, what actor would you have play Chris Voss?
Chris Voss: Idris Elba.
C. Allen: Oh, that's a great answer. That would be a ridiculously good one. You have so many good stories. Who's an entrepreneur who has really inspired you and why?
Chris Voss: I'm around a lot of people on a regular basis — I get coached on how to be a better business executive by an organization called Strategic Coach, run by a guy named Dan Sullivan and his wife, Babs Smith — and everybody [within the organization] is a successful entrepreneur who has built businesses that are way bigger and way more successful than mine. So, you try to be the average of the five people you hang out with. I'm always trying to elevate my game by hanging around superstar entrepreneurs. Of the more visible guys, I like Mark Cuban. I like him a lot. He's a decent, supportive guy. I know people that do business with him. I interviewed him on a social media platform, Fireside, and I like what he's about.
Chris Voss: And when I talk to him, too, I think he's mischaracterized on Shark Tank. Because other Sharks like to portray him as a bully occasionally. He's not a bully. But he tests you. You got to have your "A" game if you're going to do business with him because you are his ambassador and you can't get pushed around. So he is going to push around to see whether or not you can stand up for yourself. But in the interview I was talking with him and he said he's a big believer in trust and integrity as a means of making deals faster. He said he'll spend a lot of time with people up front to let him know that they can trust him, because he wants to make subsequent deals and he wants the timeframes to accelerate. And so the more you can rely on him, the quicker you can make a deal. And that's a great philosophy.
C. Allen: Yeah, it is. That's incredible. Well, it's been a huge honor to sit and chat with you. Hopefully you could tell I'm a huge fan.
Chris Voss: Thank you.
C. Allen: I have an appreciation for your work. What's next for Chris Voss?
Chris Voss: Well, we got a book. There are three things: There's a documentary film that's been made [about] my company. It's going to premiere in Los Angeles on September 26th. I haven't seen it yet. Nick Nanton and DNA Films [worked on it]. Nick has 22 Emmys. He's got a good track record. He's a good person. He says it's good. He says it's gritty. He said it turned out a little grittier than [he] expected.
C. Allen: Yeah. Imagine that.
Chris Voss: Yeah, exactly. And that's pretty cool. And it's going to put a little bit more of a spotlight on my son, Brandon, who's a super talented guy. We've got a book for real estate, residential real estate agents. Should be out in about six months, and the "Tactical Empathy Operations Manual" will be out in about a year.
C. Allen: That sounds so good. Wow. Awesome. Well, thank you so much for coming out and spending time in the studio.
Chris Voss: Yeah, tell people about the newsletter.
C. Allen: OK.
Chris Voss: Yeah. The newsletter is free, but that's not why it's valuable. It's actionable and it's concise. That's what makes something valuable. Is it concise, and can you use it? The best way to get there is the Black Swan website, [which] is blackswanltd.com. Upper right hand corner is a tab for the blog. The blog is The Negotiation Edge. You sign up for it. You [receive it in your inbox] on Tuesday morning. It's free. But again, stuff that's free can be useless.
C. Allen: Yeah, it's true.
Chris Voss: It's actionable. We [have] a lot of free stuff, and you really need to get a good grounding in all the stuff that we have. [The content that's] free in the newsletter and the free stuff on a website will take you a long, long way. We have training that we charge a lot for, but you're not going to be ready for it.
Chris Voss: If you haven't filled out the baseline on the free stuff, the newsletter's a great starting point. It's a gateway to the gold mine.
C. Allen: That's powerful. Hey, thanks for sharing with us. Appreciate you, Chris.
Chris Voss: My pleasure.
C. Allen: Absolutely. Thank you for coming to the studio.
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Is there anyone on stage, and can I see hands, who is unwilling tonight to pledge your support to the eventual nominee of the Republican party and pledge not to run an independent campaign against that person.
Every candidate promised to endorse the eventual nominee – except Donald Trump.
In September the Republican party asked the presidential nominees to sign a pledge to support the party and the eventual nominee.
Both Jeb! Bush and Lindsey Graham signed the pledge.
Today Jeb! Bush and Lindsey Graham announced they would not support Donald Trump the Republican nominee.
Obviously, their pledge meant nothing.


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The Eu and the UK have got it in for Diesels at the mo, the economics are all against big petrol and diesel guzzling 4x4's which the majority are not used to there full off road capabilities and only possibly switch into 4 wheel drive on the odd occasion. The markets are reducing for new vehicles as people are unsure on the future in cars as apparently by 2040 they are being fazed out! The new wonder market was China but that sector is slowing for new car purchases!
But Hey Ho lets blame Brexit!
Hasn�t car manufacturing and almost all large scale manufacturing been moving out of the uk over the last 15years!
I see in the news that Nissan has decided to move production away from UK..
Toyota wants the UK to take the EU's exit deal.
Jag LR extending shutdown due to Brexit.
Diane Abacus calculates about �14,000,000 or �140,000 or �14 and please stop bullying her!
Brexit, brought about by David Cameron's decision to hold a referendum, is going really well (sarcasm).
Meanwhile, accounts show the former PM earned about �800k between November 2016 and April 2018.
That's a little over �41,000 a month.
The choice wasn't binary. Yes, there may well be morons on the remain side but we know where all the racists are don't we? If you are happy to be on the same side as them, fine, perhaps they share your ideas for where the country goes next.
�The choise wasn�t binary� - showed your hand there, bad loser.
�Yes, there may well be morons on the remain side but we know where all the racists are don�t we� - if you believe that in the 15-16 million people that voted remain there are no racists then you my old pal are thick. Some idiots may have voted out because of racist views but that does not make them any worse than a racist that voted remain. A racist is a racist.
Now that that is out of the way and we have both got real, are you going to be ok knowing that you have got into bed with racists? Or are you going to try and cling to the fact that �hopefully� remain has less than leave?
I cannot believe people are still falling for the agenda of scare tactics from MP's or Bureaucrats on either side of the water who only have their own interests at heart, midnight the 29th of March we leave with some form of deal so everything carries on no dramas but there are then probably years ahead to still unravel the deal and the implications but if we come out with no deal on the 30th Armageddon is going to happen, I'm sure common sense will prevail it still take years to unravel 40+ years of EU laws,trading,travel,security etc etc etc, but just encase because I really cant be arsed with stockpiling paracetamol they only sell you a couple of boxes at anyone time wherever you go can someone please point me in the direction of a street dealer with clean ibuprofen.
I think the MP's have forgotten they are servants and representatives of the masses and not the other way round!
They have to remember their job is reliant on electorate support and this is what enables MP's to function.
At the end of Brexit, whether we leave or stay, a lot of MP's bum holes will be twitching as the good old days of safe party seats will be something relegated to the past! Safe seats where the MP who wore a red or blue rosette would automatically be re-elected will not be as safe as they think they will be.
Anyway i'm off to visit the shops to stockpile food, medicine and McDonalds burgers! Hopefully the Army wont stop me and before Kent becomes the lorry park of the world!
What will be will be they�ll always be a buncha cnuts anyway.
" I am not going to answer any more of your questions."
Any more? You haven't answered any questions.
I asked for your positive reasons for staying in the EU.
I am intrigued as to why any citizen of any country would be happy to have their borders, judiciary, trade and fishing grounds, ruled over by a foreign power who don't have their best interests at heart.
Are you really so fearful that our country can't manage on its own in the world like almost every other country in the world does?


After a long story that's best told over a beer, Anna Ruth woke up one morning in 2012 and decided to start her own tech PR agency. With just an old laptop, a small family loan and a vision to chart the future of PR, it was game on. Her first employee was her dog, but that quickly turned into more than 20 humans, and ARPR rose to become the 2016 Technology Agency of the Year, a PR News' TOP Place to Work and one of the top 30 largest tech PR firms in the country (O'Dwyers). In 2017, Anna Ruth earned a spot on PR News' 50 Game-Changers in PR list, and in 2015 she was named Early Stage Entrepreneur of the Year by the Metro Atlanta Chamber.
A self-professed traditional PR purist, she's worked with some of the nation's biggest outlets, such as CNN, Fast Company, Forbes, TechCrunch and Wall Street Journal. In addition to pitching journalists and writing long-form, she loves leading messaging sessions, content brainstorms and media trainings for clients. And nothing gets her going more than hustling in a pair of flats alongside clients at industry tradeshows, such as CES, RSA and HIMSS. When she's not in Delta 14A, Anna Ruth is in endless pursuit of fixing up her urban loft, watching every documentary on Netflix, covering things in glitter, and doing a better downward dog than her four-legged child, Roscoe.
Read and watch her industry ramblings on FutureofPR.org and on her LinkedIn profile.
After her career as a Disney Princess failed, Blair knew she still wanted to do something with the publics that could occasionally be paired with a really good glass of red. After grad school and a few other PR gigs that involved lots of coffee talk, literally, she found herself as the first full-time hire of ARPR in 2013 – helping to build ARPR's brand into one of the fastest-growing technology PR firms in the country and the #1 tech PR firm in the Southeast. She's been integral in helping ascend ARPR into a two-time Small Agency of the Year winner and the 2018 Agency that Gets Results.
As a big part of her operations & people duties at ARPR, Blair oversees talent cultivation, retention, attraction and training for the Army of Awesome through a unique, multi-pronged approach that ensures we deliver the same uncanny commitment to our employees as we do to our clients. As a result, ARPR has earned the title Best Place to Work six times. In addition, she continues to provide strategic counsel and guidance to support the agency's growing team, services and client base.
When she's not searching for the next member of the Army of Awesome, driving leads with her tweeting thumbs and award-winning social media expertise or counting her steps and client wins at industry trade shows like CES, SXSW and HIMSS… you can find her getting her passport stamped across the world and making frequent trips back to Disney World to visit Elsa, Cinderella and the gang. Read her thoughts about on the future of this 120+-year-old industry and about life as a country Cajun girl living in the Big Easy via Twitter and LinkedIn.
Evan was first exposed to the public relations industry after a grumpy middle-aged AP reporter, who doubled as one of his college lacrosse coaches, urged him not to pursue a journalism career. Following grad school, Evan quickly developed a passion for technology PR & marketing, but was extremely dissuaded by the PR culture after his tenure at several agencies left him wanting much, much more for his career. Fortunately, Evan found ARPR in 2014, and has since helped grow the firm in size, revenue and prestige. Today ARPR is regularly recognized as Technology Agency of the Year, a PR News' TOP Place to Work and one of the top 30 largest tech PR firms in the country (O'Dwyers).
As ARPR's vice president of client service and cybersecurity practice group director, Evan splits his time and energy on agency growth and employee retention, and client satisfaction, measuring client ROI and ensuring extraordinary deliverables. Classified by his peers as a PR purist, Evan is most enthused by ghostwriting thought leadership articles, creating impactful messaging and of course – landing killer media relations placements, which he has done for current and former clients in ad tech, cybersecurity, MarTech, mobility, FinTech, streaming media and more.
When his reconstructed shoulders allow, Evan enjoys a good workout or athletic completion. He is also an avid hot sauce collector, a retainer of information some deem as useless, an aspiring stock market player and world traveler. Most importantly, Evan is a loving husband and dad to two girls – one human and one dog.
As ARPR's senior vice president of analytics and digital marketing, Renee is head coach of the inbound marketing team. She brings our Army of Awesome's media relations, content marketing and social media successes together with lead generation and nurturing to close the gap between traditional PR and sales for winning results. She's no stranger to traditional PR though, landing clients headlines in outlets like Yahoo!, Time and CNN, as well.
Past president of AMA Atlanta, the American Marketing Association's third largest chapter, Renee now serves on the board of her local Bark Park in honor of her fur pups, Abbey and Lucy. In her spare time, you can find her photographing national parks or scouring Pinterest for inspiration for her latest craft project.
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Erika left life under the big top as a Cirque du Soleil PR rep to nerd out as an Account Director with B2B tech clients in the Big Easy. For as long as she can remember, Erika's passion for PR stemmed from making B2B tech clients shine while they were in center ring.
Leveraging her circus of an account background, from working with Fortune 500 companies and innovative tech startups to lifestyle brands and entertainment accounts, she's become a ring leader, and calls the shots, generating creative integrated communications campaigns to help clients safely land top-tier headlines as well as drive qualified sales leads through the magic of PR. She's a magician when it comes to relationship building and storytelling and her magic acts have resulted in multiple top-tier national media placements ranging from The Wall Street Journal and USA Today to long-form bylines in industry trade publications such as IndustryWeek and ThinkAdvisor. Her high-flying client results and strategic account management helped her earn a top spot in PR News' Rising Stars – 30 and Under Awards, and her work has been recognized several times by the American Marketing Association, PRSA and CES.
When she isn't practicing her flying trapeze act or hanging out with the Army of Awesome troupe, Erika enjoys Mardi Gras-ing it up with lots of king cake, beads and beer, but jumps at the opportunity to visit her and ARPR's beloved hometown, affectionately known as "the A" every chance she gets.
To follow along with Erika as she juggles account management with award-winning work, find her on Twitter @escholzvan.
As a die-hard Alabama fan, it's only natural Cortney exudes a 'winning' attitude. Following college graduation, while most of her colleagues were taking time off to relax and enjoy their summer, Cortney was determined to begin her career and immediately landed a PR/marketing internship with a boutique agency in Atlanta, which is where she discovered her true passion for storytelling. Now with experience servicing B2B and B2C clients of all sizes and in almost every industry, she joins ARPR as the firm's media relations aficionado, helping clients in the HealthIT and SaaS practice groups craft powerful stories that resonate with the public. Throughout her years in PR she has secured hundreds of media placements in top-tier national outlets such as The New York Times, U.S. News and World Report and HuffPost, to industry trade publications such as Managed Healthcare Executive and CPA Practice Advisor.
In addition to her media relations skills, Cortney is a strong B2B writer with experience helping clients create and strengthen corporate messaging, website and collateral content, while utilizing an integrated approach to ensure optimization and engagement. She is an innovative thinker and robust researcher continuously 'upping her game' and identifying new ways to help clients #MakeNews. From leading thought leadership campaigns resulting in more than 150 million media impressions to assisting clients in achieving triple-digit web traffic growth, she knows what it takes to exceed client expectations.
To keep up with Cortney and check out more of her client "wins," follow her on LinkedIn and Twitter.
From a young age, Alex never shied away from telling a good story – from talking to random strangers in the grocery store at five, to hanging in his creative writing workshops in college, or as the frontman of an indie rock band. His motley assortment of interests and gift of gab eventually led him to a career in communications and the rest, as they say, is history.
Alex brings over ten years of communication experience to the team, serving B2B tech clients for the majority of his career. His innate storytelling skills have helped him to provide integrated communications counsel and strategy for public and private organizations – including several Fortune 1000 companies within the security, mobile tech, and telecom industries. Alex has also been successful in positioning his clients into multiple trade verticals, to #MakeNews and #DriveLeads, achieving high-value exposure through articles, case studies and trend pieces in top-tier tech outlets such as: RCR Wireless, Fierce Wireless, Enterprise IoT Insights, Light Reading and SC Magazine.
When he is not rocking out for those clients, Alex is hanging with fellow Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Georgia and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) members. He has also starred as a panelist at past PRSA events for graduating college students and has judged the marketing and entrepreneurship competitions for high school students in the DECA program.
Outside of his passion for PR and writing music, Alex also enjoys traveling, cooking, and spending time with his wife Jamie, son Davey and Australian Cattle Dog, Henry. He's also a native of Cleveland and highly recommends a visit to the West Side Market if you visit.
In another life, Christina was a master chef, continuously working to perfect her craft with the hopes of one day earning the coveted three Michelin stars. While those dreams are unrealistic in this lifetime, Christina has since pivoted that passion into ascending her rankings within public relations and digital marketing.
With over eight years of experience, Christina has worked in both in-house and agency environments with clients in a myriad of industries including technology, health, agriculture and public utilities. She most recently served as the global public relations manager at an education technology company, where her hunger for digital marketing and analyzing data expanded her responsibilities to include social media and content marketing strategy and execution.
While Christina understands all the essential ingredients of an integrated approach, and she knows they are all needed to make the perfect cake, she's a traditionalist at heart. She's always cooking up media hits ranging from influencer blogs and trade publications to top-tier national outlets, including CNN, MSBC, and The Washington Post. With the right ingredients, Christina can create a story that's hearty and full of flavor; a story with universal appeal.
When she's not creating the perfect recipe for success at the office or in the kitchen, you can find her picking fruits and vegetables at local Georgia farms or spending quality time with her two-year-old daughter Avery and her fiancé Joe. Follow her latest insights via Twitter at @cadelacruz.
Always the golden child and a perfectionist, Faria had quite the time being the best sibling. Thankfully, these qualities paid off throughout school, professional and now personal life. Her very first job was at a Chick-fil-A where she worked long, hard hours. This scored her a role as the General Manager (of a $2.1 million restaurant) at the ripe age of nineteen. She has worked in retail, real estate, and technology before joining the #agencylife. Faria is a proud alumnus of Kennesaw State University and cannot wait until she can join team banter for college football (one day!)- Go Owls!
Faria prefers the quiet life in the OTP and all the luscious green she's surrounded by. Since her time in retail or shortly after birth, Faria became obsessed with makeup. She is willing to try every beauty product under the sun after conducting hours of research. She recently got married and is a mom to three furry babies (2 cats and a black lab). Among friends, she is the crazy cat lady and proud of the accomplishment. On the weekends, Faria is cleaning and refreshing the decor in her home to match the season. She loves traveling and often wonders how many vacations are too many. Faria loves documenting her life and hopes to become the next social media celebrity, one day.
You can follow Faria on Instagram and LinkedIn.
Kristen made her way to Atlanta after her family said – in what some proud Texans might call a blasphemous statement – "There's more to life, get out of Texas," and encouraged her to travel and see the world. So, she picked up her boots, passport and backpack and headed to India where she fell in love with communicating ideas and breaking barriers. Soon after, while living in Washington, DC, she got her first public relations win – and there was no turning back.
As a strategic content creator and storyteller, Kristen develops strong messaging that drives conversations and creates an echo-chamber of support. She believes everyone has a story to tell, but it's how you frame it that cuts through the noise and secures that media hit! Her time in DC has left her with a strong background in client services and grassroots coalition management as well as insight into navigating the media landscape on regulatory and legislative news that our clients' industries may face. Congressional hearings? She's written a testimony. City council meetings? She's also done that. Nothing is too small for Kristen when it comes to championing her clients and creating a winning strategy for them. She also works with executives in honing their voice to become thought leaders in their space, helping them score segments on CNN to landing bylines in trade publications.
Today, Kristen brings her skills to ARPR's health technology and cybersecurity practice groups, where driving change and amplification have proven results.
Kristen graduated from the University of Georgia with two degrees in Public Relations and International Affairs, with a focus in national security.
Outside of life as a communications and political junkie, Kristen enjoys Atlanta's growing food-scene with her husband, Norman, and is on the constant search for the best taco. She also continues her love for traveling and feeds her addiction of spy novels.
Native ATLien and former fashion model, Quisha E'lom-Ashley, is a social media maven with a passion for connecting businesses to their target communities strategically and with style. She first realized the power of social media once she landed her first high school job managing a Myspace account for a local signage shop before the term "social media manager" was even coined, and before Myspace became totally irrelevant.
As a self-proclaimed "communications polymath," Quisha's understanding of the power of truly integrated marcomm campaigns has helped her perfect her social media campaign catwalk; creating campaigns for various B2B and B2C companies for over 12 years that have exceeded industry benchmarks and increased sales. She has utilized social influencer marketing to drive Fortune 500 enterprises to her niche FinTech clients. She has also facilitated Facebook Live events that have netted over 1.5 million views for some of the nation's top brands.
Innately enthusiastic, self-motivated and with a smile permanently plastered on her face, Quisha became a first-generation college graduate. After completing her master's degree in public relations and journalism from Full Sail University and making it as a finalist on America's Next Top Model (getting cut right before filming), Quisha officially retired her vogue poses and decided to return to her true love of driving brand growth through social media content and connections.
Whenever Quisha's not tweeting, posting, liking and sharing, you can usually find her exploring Atlanta's many hiking trails, breweries and local art events with her husband and daughter. Follow her Atlanta adventures on Instagram, @QuishaWonder, or her top social media tips on LinkedIn.
A true Atlanta native, Chris first dipped his feet into the journalism pool at the ripe age of 17 while writing columns for a small community paper in Woodstock, Ga. during the middle of the Great Recession. With a front-row view to how shrinking ad revenue was drowning media outlets across the country, Chris continued his journalism career while attending Georgia State University and freelancing for business site Global Atlanta before leading a team of 70+ as editor-in-chief of the school's award-winning student newspaper, The Signal.
Despite the (mild) jeers of some of his classmates and colleagues at graduation, Chris changed strokes to pursue a career in PR after internships with the Carter Center and two Atlanta agencies helped change his opinion for good about the "Dark Side." In the time since making the switch to agency life, Chris has secured awards like the Atlanta Business Chronicle's CFO of the Year and Pacesetter Awards for clients, as well as press coverage with CNN, the Associated Press and Entertainment Weekly. He has experience working with a diverse group of clients across the manufacturing, hospitality and live entertainment industries.
A founder of the Signal Alumni Network and an active member of the Atlanta Press Club, Chris is a firm believer that doing PR the right way involves good, old-fashioned trust and relationship building – above all else. However, he also understands that modern PR requires a comprehensive approach that integrates traditional media relations with strong social and digital components to deliver measurable results.
When he's not dreaming up an integrated messaging strategy or writing whitepapers for clients, it's a safe bet you can find this amateur music critic at a local concert or on the back of his motorcycle, a red '99 Honda VFR, if he's not too busy photographing his family's pack of oversized German Shepherd Dogs (take a peak via @TheIndoorWolf).
To stay current with his clients' successes and Chris' experiences across the South and beyond., follow @ChrisShattuck on Twitter.
Patrick decided to trade the dry heat of Phoenix for the muggy climate of New Orleans when he began his studies in Marketing at Tulane University. Quickly falling in love with the Big Easy, Patrick also found his passion for digital marketing at his first full-time gig at an advertising agency straight out of college. So, now both his mind and his heart are forever tied to #NOLA.
With boundless curiosity and hunger to learn new technologies, it's only as natural as a muddy bayou that Patrick would have a passion for all things SEO, PPC and any other acronyms in the digital marketing world, and holds numerous digital marketing certifications including Google Ads, Google Analytics, Bing Ads, and multiple programmatic platforms.
He uses online insights and analytics to reach customers in their digital moments of need, helping B2B and B2C businesses alike double sales and increase leads by triple digits. Fully recognizant of the fact that the best products solve a problem for its customers, Patrick takes an "in all things: service" strategic, problem-solving approach in everything he does for his clients and his teammates.
Now, as a SEO and PPC Whiz, Patrick uses his expertise to tie the bow on ARPR's entire Panorama Approach, taking that headline all the way to a sale using a unique combo of digital advertising, lead generation and SEO strategies and tactics.
On a personal note, Patrick is an easy-going, dog-loving, adventure-seeking millennial who likes iced coffee and a good dive bar.
To keep up with his adventures check him out on Instagram.
Imported from Detroit. After dealing with harsh winters his whole life, Nick quickly realized that southern sunshine was calling his name and relocated to Atlanta to study marketing at Morehouse College. Nick started his career selling enterprise software in Boston and after a few years of experience, decided to return to Atlanta to pursue his passion for digital marketing and communications…and warm weather of course.
Experiencing first-hand how marketing, PR and sales fit together in a large enterprise, Nick understood that he knew what it's like to be in a client's shoes and decided to bring his unique perspective to the agency side of the business. Nick started as an ARPR intern in December of 2016 and quickly transitioned to a full-time role within a few months. His passion for digital marketing led him to become a HootSuite certified social media consultant in college, and he currently holds certifications for Google AdWords and Hubspot as well. With this, he desires to assist the team in increasing engagement and awareness for clients, as well as helping them drive leads.
During his time at ARPR Nick has been responsible for everything from website updates, to monthly client reporting dashboards and client research. Recently, Nick was named ARPR's marketing master where he is responsible inbound and outbound marketing, sponsorships, social presence, awards planning and much more.
He spends his spare time with family, traveling, playing any sport he can, and debating Michigan sports with local Falcons fans. Follow him on Twitter @itsShow_Time.
As marketing strategist for ARPR, Casey specializes in digital marketing, with a proven record in strategic online marketing campaigns. Utilizing an integrated marketing approach, Casey helps clients shape brand identity through graphic design, and brand awareness through social media.
Having spent the last decade in Washington, D.C., Casey has a strong background in legislative, fundraising and advocacy strategy for both corporations and trade associations. Most recently at a leading marketing and PR SaaS company, she collaborated with clients spanning the service, retail, manufacturing, defense, higher education and financial sectors, on how to best utilize the software solution.
Casey graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in political science, with a minor in telecommunications.
Casey resides in the technology and cybersecurity hub of Huntsville, Alabama. Her proudest accomplishment to date is her baby daughter. When she's not dreaming up her next travel, she loves trying new recipes and is a college football enthusiast.
Raised in Atlanta suburbia, Taylor grew up in a highly creative and ambitious household with an artistic mother and an entrepreneurial father. With early dreams to pursue a career in an imaginative environment and an unhealthy obsession for all things furry and four-legged, Taylor combined her passion and innovative nature to begin working as a receptionist and digital marketing coordinator at a local animal boarding facility at 15. After eight years of working with animals and a PR degree from Georgia Southern University, Taylor sought out to utilize her skills in a fast-paced environment that would challenge her.
Beginning her public relations journey representing SMBs and fortune 500 companies, Taylor has dived into all aspects of B2B and B2C PR in both agency and in-house settings. With her furry friends cheering her on, she's built meaningful relationships and constructed creative, utilizing these skills to PRopel ARPR's Marketing and Business Development program. Taylor shapes our brand identity through graphic design, media relations, website development and social media all while tapping into her analytical side to help drive ARPR's marketing programs.
When Taylor isn't making news and driving leads for ARPR you can find her holding a Canon, a bag of Flaming Hot Cheetos or making an appearance in Atlanta's many music venues. She is a proud mother to a fluffy blonde golden retriever named Piper who doesn't understand that she isn't also a human.
Alexis was born and raised on the Westbank of New Orleans (locally known as the "Bestbank!"). She didn't stray too far from her beloved city as she earned her tiger stripes and bachelor's degree in mass communications at Louisiana State University, where she discovered her passion for marketing and advertising.
Still bleeding purple and gold and proud to know how to pronounce Tchoupitoulas and always shouting "Who Dat!", Alexis decided to join a local New Orleans public relations firm as an intern, where she was able to help local B2B and B2C business through her love of PR and marketing. This, coupled with her opportunity to work as a marketing specialist for a local photographer, helped Alexis to hone her craft and identify her strengths.
Alexis began her journey with ARPR as an awesome intern where she learned how to take her incredibly creative social media marketing tactics and design skills and combine them to help technology clients land qualified sales leads. Now, as our social media and creative conqueror, she helps our Health IT and Fintech clients score double-digit social media follower growth, and then showcases the impact of that growth and the rest of the teams' efforts through analyzing data and connecting headlines to sales every month through ARPR's Influence and Impact Reports.
In her free time, Alexis enjoys working out, eating beignets (that's pronounced ben-yay) and listening to an eclectic mix of music (a little bit of lil Wayne, a few Disney theme songs and some country). She has a knack for finding cringingly bad movies to watch on Netflix and comparing everything in life to her fur baby, Chico the Chiweenie.
Follow her on Instagram to see her many puppy photos and amazing adventures.


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Crisis in Venezuela
Charlie Darveau, Reporter
The situation in Venezuela is chaotic. The Bolívar, the nation's currency, has been left nearly worthless after hyperinflation of nearly 10 million percent, according to the International Monetary Fund. Venezuelans face severe shortages of food, water, and medical care, and over 3 million people, a tenth of the Latin American nation's population, have fled. In March, the country was rocked by a six day long, nationwide power outage.
The origins of the crisis root back to the early 2000s, when then president Hugo Chavez built the nation's economy exclusively on oil exports, importing everything else from food to clothing to luxury goods. Eventually, Chavez was replaced by current president Nicolás Maduro, and in 2015 oil prices cratered. Maduro declared a 'war on capitalism' and refused to take action on the worsening economic crisis, while simultaneously removing democratic establishments and concentrating power in himself, hastening the slide into the chaos now seen in Venezuela.
In January of this year, after an election widely considered fraudulent in which Maduro was elected for a second term, leader of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, declared himself interim president. Guaidó has been recognized by more than 50 democracies around the world, including by the US. Yet the Trump administration's move to support Guaidó has been perceived as a controversial move in the US, and American liberals have taken to the streets with the slogan "hands off Venezuela" (a slogan Maduro himself is quite fond of as well). It is usually Trump who sides with authoritarian rulers, but in this case it appears to be the other side of the aisle, with Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Ilhan Omar all supporting "hands off Venezuela".
It's true that the US has a questionable, imperialist history of meddling in Latin American countries, and that we should tread carefully in interfering in foreign affairs. But by supporting Guaidó, the US and 50 other nations are not trying to incite an illegitimate Coup d'etat, or to create a regime change. They are trying to restore Venezuela's democratic norms, and allow for free and fair elections to take place. Juan Guaidó declaring himself interim president was not a power grab for himself, it was an effort to return power to the Venezuelan people and their democratic institutions.
A US policy of inaction in Venezuela would mean leaving an authoritarian ruler in power to continue to mismanage the Venezuelan economy and mistreat the Venezuelan people. If the decline in Venezuela continues at its current rate, it could create a humanitarian crisis on par with the refugee crisis in Syria, which could destabilize the entire region. For the US, "hands off Venezuela" would really mean blood on our hands.
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Winter Walks: Where to Find Maine's Most Impressive Eastern White Pines
Maine's state tree is a real beauty year-round, but the Eastern White Pine really shines in winter, holding onto its evergreen needles even when many of its neighbors are bare. It's easy to see why it's such a popular choice as a Christmas tree, with its classic conifer shape and full, bushy limbs. It's an important part of local ecosystems, too, providing food and shelter for a wide variety of species during even the harshest winters. It might be cold outside, but it's still a lovely time to take a brisk walk and enjoy the sights and smells of these beautiful trees, which grow all over the state.
Nobody is really keeping official tabs on the tallest trees in Maine; state officials maintain a registry of big trees, but it's not updated very often, and residents submit their own reports to add to it. But it does note the existence of an impressive Eastern White Pine standing 120 feet tall with a circumference of 245 inches and a crown spread of 80 feet located in Morrill, last measured in 2008. This one was nominated for 'national champion' of big trees.
Many others measuring over 100 feet tall have been celebrated as champion trees in various counties, like a 108-foot Big Tree Contest winner in Sumner. According to the Monumental Trees database, there's a particularly beautiful specimen located across from the 5 Lakes Lodge in Millinocket, but its height and official girth are unknown.
Of course, Eastern White Pines can be found all over Maine, which provides plenty of fertile, well-drained soil to help the species thrive, not to mention a historic lumber industry maintaining sustainably managed pine forests. The state notes Bearce Lake in the Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge, Bigelow Preserve Public Lands, Chamberlain Lake Public Lands, Gero Island Public Lands and the Scientific Forest Management Area of Baxter State as prime conservation lands brimming with beautiful white pines.
But if you want to see the tallest Eastern White Pines the East Coast has to offer, you'll have to venture outside the state a little bit. Pennsylvania's Cook Forest State Park is home to 110 Eastern White Pines measuring 148 feet or taller, including an incredible 'Longfellow Pine' reaching 183 feet 7 inches into the sky. The tallest one of all, the 'Boogerman Pine,' is a bit further afield in the Cataloochee Valley of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, reaching an amazing 207 feet.
Image of Bearce Lake via the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service


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Last ride of a longtime Carson store
Kevin Clifford/Nevada Appeal Pete Schuler, saddle maker for the Hitchin' Post Western Store in Carson City, cantle binds a show saddle. Schuler said he plans to continue leather work after the store's closure in August.
After 32 years, Hitchin' Post Western Store is hanging up its spurs and putting out to market its little cowboy corner on Highway 50 East.
Co-owner Sonya Schuler said her store is Carson City's last custom-leather goods, saddle shop and retail store. She has four full-time employees.
"We've tried to keep the Western tradition alive, and it's just not there anymore," she said.
Carson City attracts recreational sports such as soccer and baseball tournaments, not horse shows and rodeos.
Schuler and her husband, Dave, purchased the business in 1980 from her mother, Elaine Smith. The couple will retire after shuttering the store in August. They plan to tour antique bit-and-spur and saddle shows. They will relax at their Old Washoe City home with their three horses.
Schuler, 66, said the closure can't be attributed just to the dwindling retail demand for cowboy hats and turquoise jewelry. The Internet has taken its toll on the Schulers' business.
"People come here to try out saddle sizes and then go buy them on the Internet," she said.
Customers who have seen the colored flags and liquidation sale sign outside the building at 3080 Highway 50 E. have come in to express their condolences, Schuler said. But often these are customers she only sees once or twice a year.
Pete Schuler, a saddle craftsman and Sonya Schuler's son, said he will start selling custom belts online, the way specialty retail sales seem to be flowing. During his career at the Hitchin' Post, he has done everything from replacing snaps on motorcycle vests to crafting leather briefcases. He probably won't be crafting saddles for retail sale anymore. He's cut back on taking repairs and orders.
"The high cost of overhead makes it hard for a person to make a living working with his hands," he said.
Schuler said she will likely sell the half-acre, which includes the 3,300-square-foot store. She's received a few offers from entrepreneurs who want to try their hand at operating a store.
It can sound easy, until you have the store and all the problems that come with it, Pete Schuler said.
• Contact reporter Becky Bosshart at bbosshart@nevadaappeal.com or 881-1212.


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Football First managing director in the eleven
Diana Hoge makes pioneering work and becomes the first managing director in the European League of Football (ELF). The 39-year-old from Berlin follows Berlin Thunder on General Manager Heiko of Glahn, who leaves the club at his own request. Together with the whole team, the fans, the shareholders and the sponsors, I would like to lead the organization and American football in Germany and Europe into a successful future, said Hoge, former vice-president and marketing director of the Football Club Berlin Adler. The former NFL-Profi Björn Werner, with-shareholder and makes pioneerings director at the Berliners, promises a lot of HOGE. We are very happy to have Diana as an expert for marketing and marketing in our team. Berlin Thunder looks at a promising future.
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This paper describes a first year project on the MA Interior Design programme at the Royal College of Art in London.
The 'Identities' project is formulated to ensure that students consider the material qualities of their work and develop design proposals that reslove a small scale interior design problem in finite detail. To achieve this a project structure has been developed where materials selection is the departure point for the work. The problem of planning is removed from the equation as students are given a fixed plan with which to work and the focus of the work then concentrates on the three-dimensional development of an interior design proposal where the consideration of structure, materials, form, detail, colour, pattern, texture and finish are key. Development work utilises model making as the principle means of communication. The project is broken down into clear phases that demand students work through progressively larger scales (from 1:20 through to full size) allowing detailed development of schemes as appropriate. The notion of 'learning through making' is crucial and the utilisation of model-making and prototyping is important. Tutorials are tailored to fit around the project structure to provide both support and rigorous critique throughout the process.
The results of this approach are project outcomes that fully resolve interior design proposals in an unequivocal way at scales up to full size.


I completed my Bachelor's of Applied Science in Applied Human Nutrition at the University of Guelph in 2015. After that, I worked a handful of different jobs before ending up working in the Product Development department at McCormick Canada as a Culinary Technologist. I also started working as a nutrition coach at Degree CrossFit Seaforth during that time. I then completed my dietetic internship through London Health Sciences Centre in August 2018.
Over the last two weeks, the OHEA website has been down for maintenance, and we are excited to release the updated version. You may have noticed the navigation on the site has changed with tabs being moved and new options being available. This blog post is intended to help members understand the largest changes.
The International Federation of Home Economics (IFHE) has released a Disaster Assistance Partnership (DAP) Call to Action following discussions with colleagues from Puerto Rico at the AAFCS Convention in June. Hurricanes IRMA and MARIA last September devastated many parts of the Caribbean and much of Puerto Rico. These areas have few resources to devote to the recovery of Home Economics programs. The DAP and International Home Economics Services (IHES) Board agreed they needed to take action similar to what was done for the Caribbean Islands. Local, state, national and international colleagues and supporters will work together with Puerto Rican colleagues to coordinate the response.
The organization is in need of donations of teacher resources including textbooks and curriculum materials, as well as equipment and materials for culinary, foods and nutrition, clothing, child development, family resource manage, hospitality, and crafts courses, etc. Materials in both English and Spanish are useful. Additional money for shipping and purchase of some items needed but not donated will also be required.
Individually: Contribute items in good condition that would be useful and/or donate money for shipping and expenses.
As an RCS Affiliate, FCCLA or other organization: organize and plan for gathering materials, such as designating a coordinator for DAP, set time, method and location for gathering donations and boxing items for shipment.
Assist on Site in South Carolina: Need help with sorting, packing, labeling and shipping the donated items.
To see more information about this initiative, contact information for the DAP Coordinator and suggested items needed, please visit the IFHE website here.