my story
personal motto:
meet deadlines,
keep it moving, and trust that everything will fall into place.
— colleen medlock (me)
I’m a writer, brand advisor, & project manager. In 2015, I took two decades of experience and started working with organizations and solo practitioners on branding, communications, and digital marketing.
With origins in Prince George's County, Maryland on Nacotchtank land, I am also a wife, a student of yoga, & a lover of art, design, etymology, learning, mythology, reading, chocolate, city hikes, KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, plants, and the colors and lighting in the wilds of Los Angeles. Learn more about my story in VoyageLA.
experience & training
professional background
Two decades in business and fundraising
Expertise in marketing (social, web, print), strategy, sales / fundraising, and operations
Range of experience in the political, retail / wholesale, publishing, jewelry, media, arts, healing, health, and wellness industries
Work with companies and organizations including EMILY's List, JEN HANSEN Jewelry, TASCHEN, and The Advocacy Group
education
B.A. in English Language & Literature, University of Maryland, College Park
Certificate: Women's Studies
Citation: College Park Scholars Program, American Cultures
Teaching assistant for the American Cultures program
training
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, Love Story Yoga
Sustainable Compassion Training with Lama John Makransky
Work That Reconnects with Joanna Macy
philosophy
Healing is a journey that begins with ourselves, but that's just the start. It must extend to our shared communities and environment: our air, our lands, and our oceans.
There is no healing, health, or wellness in isolation, because there is no separation.
We must tend to the work of eradicating disparities in healing, health, and wellness for those who cannot access these services - be it due to systemic racism, poverty, and / or other forms of structural violence - because we can only ever heal and be well together.
Healing is inextricably linked to justice, self determination, transparency, and truth, particularly in local and communal spaces like government, politics, and civics.
Healing, health, and wellness are human rights that can only be fully realized through the implementation of civil rights for all, the replacement of harmful societal structures with systems that care for everyone, and investment in communities historically harmed, so all may heal and thrive.
Because of this, and as a person who primarily serves healing, health, and wellness practitioners, I feel called to personally support organizations that work to ensure access to these for all.
On this note, I financially contribute to AAPF, AIEF, Ancient Song, Black Voters Matter, CAMFED, Dignity and Power Now, Doctors Without Borders, Foot Soldiers Park, Native Conservancy, World Central Kitchen, and have funded the planting of over 10,000 trees through TreeSisters.
I am also on the board of The Advocacy Group Project and a member of the Feminist Center for Creative Work.
