About
Maggie Dougherty
Maggie is a proud PA native who recently moved home after 15 years in DC and time in the Gambia, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Nigeria, South Africa, eSwatini and other amazing African countries. After four years as a project manager at a non-profit in DC, Maggie longed for more creativity in her day-to-day work. She started honing her design skills by doing small design projects for her colleagues after work hours. After a year, she joined the communications team as a designer and photographer, supporting country offices with infographics, report layouts and storytelling. During the pandemic, Maggie teamed up with Chase to lead branding and website design for Learn to Return, a Washington statewide COVID-19 school testing program.
Maggie loves elevating high-quality content through good design, and cutting through chaos and misinformation to help people make better, more informed decisions.
Chase Willett
Chase is a wayward Texan putting down roots in the Pacific Northwest. He’s spent almost a decade in global health, focusing on health systems and infrastructure in lower resource areas in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This work taught him the value of high quality communication strategies and storytelling, a skillset he’s repurposed as a communications consultant for the past four years. During the pandemic, Chase and Maggie teamed up to lead communications for Learn to Return. Chase led the development and execution of a communications and engagement strategy for all public, private and tribal schools across the state.
Chase is passionate about public health, great content, amazing newsletters, and working with people who are making a difference. He also loves music, movies, and his son, Cary!
Maggie Dougherty
Maggie is a proud PA native who recently moved home after 15 years in DC and time in the Gambia, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Nigeria, South Africa, eSwatini and other amazing African countries. After four years as a project manager at a non-profit in DC, Maggie longed for more creativity in her day-to-day work. She started honing her design skills by doing small design projects for her colleagues after work hours. After a year, she joined the communications team as a designer and photographer, supporting country offices with infographics, report layouts and storytelling. During the pandemic, Maggie teamed up with Chase to lead branding and website design for Learn to Return, a Washington statewide COVID-19 school testing program.
Maggie loves elevating high-quality content through good design. She strives to support public health communications that cut through chaos and misinformation and help people make better, more informed decisions.
Chase Willett
Chase is a wayward Texan putting down roots in the Pacific Northwest. He’s spent almost a decade in global health, focusing on health systems and infrastructure in lower resource areas in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This work taught him the value of high quality communication strategies and storytelling, a skillset he’s repurposed as a communications consultant for the past four years. During the pandemic, Chase and Maggie teamed up to lead communications for Learn to Return. Chase led the development and execution of a communications and engagement strategy for all public, private and tribal schools across the state.
Chase is passionate about public health, great content, amazing newsletters, and working with people who are making a difference. He also loves music, movies, and his son, Cary!
Emcee was born out of Chase and Maggie’s work on Learn to Return, WA COVID-19, the Community Driven Outreach Program and the Student Health Hub. They have a proven track record of helping nascent teams understand who they are and what they need to communicate.
While they share an interest in public health, Maggie and Chase have worked across a variety of sectors and their experience as project managers gives them a unique perspective as communications consultants.
We believe in…
Accountability
Equality
Authenticity
Transparency
Measurability
Accessibility
Inclusion
Excellence
Our approach is…
Collaborative
We harness the energy of your experience and ideas to help drive the creative process. Staff are engaged in thoughtful (and fun) ways to help us get a deeper sense of the kind of messaging and branding that will best resonate with your audiences and elevate the brand. We like working with people, and people like working with us.
Analytical
We examine perceptions of your brand both internally and externally. This includes interviews with key informants, research on comparator organizations, and analyzing data from existing communications channels. This research is essential to understanding your unique value position, how it has been perceived thus far, and how it can be elevated for target audiences.
Iterative
The first thought is not always the best thought, even when it’s close to the mark. As we move forward with you in the process, we iterate until the right messaging and aesthetic comes into focus.
Flexible
We prioritize your schedules and remain as flexible as possible as long as we are keeping to our agreed-upon timeline.
Sustainable
What we build together should be sustainable after our contract ends. We use intuitive backend applications that we can teach you how to use, and provide templates, design collateral, and other assets that staff can use for future campaigns.
We always provide dedicated, one-to-one support.
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Tacoma, Washington | West Chester, Pennsylvania
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