We
MediaDesk is a leading agency in creative communications for the social sector.
For us, this means creating our best work and supporting clients and causes we believe in. Our team of creatives, marketing and advertising professionals, strategists, and digital specialists offer unique solutions to support your mission to create bigger, faster, and more meaningful change.
These are the people who make it happen.
Chase Barnes
Communications StrategistChase is a Communications Strategist with marketing, public relations, and communications experience spanning Berlin, NYC, and Orlando. As a former Disney performer, he applies his stagecraft to create compelling campaigns. Chase’s passion for community and giving back drives his work, making him a dynamic and results-oriented strategist. With his expertise, your campaigns become captivating performances that leave a lasting impression.
Sommer Betlej
Creative DirectorSommer leads our award-winning team from concept to creation. With over a decade of experience in creative leadership, Sommer has a proven success record from design to delivery. As co-founder of MediaDesk, she’s been with us since the beginning.
Mariah Carrillo
Web and Communications StrategistMariah is a Communications and Web Strategist at MediaDesk. With a Master’s in Art History, a background in visual arts, and marketing experience in the nonprofit sector, Mariah’s creative vision and strategic followthrough are instrumental in helping organizations achieve their communications goals.
Katerine Contreras
Front-end Developer and Graphic DesignerKat is a Venezuelan designer whose life has taken her to different cities across North and South America. She has experience in illustration, animation, photography, film, printmaking, and web. At MediaDesk, Kat puts her diverse skills and multicultural perspectives to work creating unique websites and visuals.
Olivia Faust
Business Operations SpecialistOlivia found herself in a strategy session with the team several years ago and decided that the MediaDeskers were her kind of people. As a Business Operations Specialist, she supports the Agency’s daily operations. She firmly believes that on-the-ground efforts can save the world, or, at the very least, improve the lives of those around us.
Fernando Gaverd
Lead DesignerFernando Gaverd is MediaDesk’s Lead Designer. He has over a decade of experience, ranging from logo design, to textiles, to web and app interface design. His clients, alongside MediaDesk’s, have included Paramount Pictures, HBO, and MEDA (which played a part in NASA’s Perseverance Rover). His work has been featured in numerous publications including Design Envy by AIGA.
Sarah Graham
Communications StrategistSarah is a multimedia storyteller who puts her background in journalism and documentary television production to work showcasing her clients’ most powerful moments of impact. When she’s not writing copy or designing campaigns, you’ll find Sarah on the ski slopes or exploring the Southwest in a tiny lil’ travel trailer with her husband and two kiddos.
Jason Griffin
Director of Web ServicesJason Griffin is the Director of Web Services at MediaDesk. With over 25 years of experience in IT, he is passionate about technology and creating intuitive, attractive, genuinely useful sites that ensure our clients succeed at powering positive change. He's a headphone audiophile, coffee geek, opera lover, cinephile, Formula 1 fan, and scotch enthusiast.
Alina Denisse Hernández Navarro
Project ManagerWhile her motherland is Mexico, and she takes great pride in her heritage, the richness of New Mexico’s landscape, culture, and people has deeply resonated in Alina’s heart and soul. Alina has over 7 years of experience in marketing. As a project manager, she understands how effective leadership can bring out the best in people and lead to success.
Keren Marquez-Romero
Communications AssociateKeren brings several years of experience in public relations, with an emphasis in earned media. At MediaDesk Keren helps craft compelling and meaningful stories with our clients. She also brings her spanish-language first skills to the team. She finds inspiration in helping others, music, the beauty of life, and nature.
Jamie Merideth
Communications StrategistFrom news to nonprofit, Jamie is fueled by mission driven objectives using digital mediums including photography, audio, video, and writing to expertly craft stories designed to do good. Bringing resourcefulness, creativity, and a solution oriented mindset to clients at MediaDesk is a dream come true.
Pilar Monfiletto
Communications AssistantPilar returned from life abroad in Bulgaria in the summer of 2023, ready to support her hometown community of Albuquerque. MediaDesk’s commitment to community resonated with Pilar’s background in social work. As a Communications Assistant, Pilar handles day-to-day business operations as well as communications work through creative delivery.
Pilar’s commitment to relationship building and her creative perspective helps our clients and MediaDesk reach their goals.
Danielle Stevens
Office ManagerDanielle comes to MediaDesk with over 20 years of experience in the service industry. She has a passion for being a part of a connected and thriving community. Whether she’s exploring the deserts of New Mexico, doing regenerative work in both ecological and social environments, or reflecting on the experience of being human through the arts, she loves to share in creative and community-focused work.
Cyrus Stuvland
Communications AssociateCyrus has a decade of experience writing, editing, and teaching rhetoric to college students. As a Communications Associate at MediaDesk, they use their rhetorical prowess to find the best storytelling strategy for any particular audience or situation.
José Viramontes
CEOJosé is the CEO of MediaDesk. For over 20 years, José has led strategic communications and marketing efforts in both rural and urban settings throughout the U.S. His diverse leadership experiences in the social, public, and private sectors come together at MediaDesk to support a high-trust team that empowers, collaborates, and innovates for our clients.
Cierra Wagner
Communications AssociateBorn and raised in Albuquerque, Cierra is a trained graphic designer and communications associate with a passion for community. She grew up with her hands in the dirt, working at her family farm which taught her resourcefulness, dedication, and the importance of good design. Today, Cierra is known for her creativity, attention to detail, and ability to connect with the people around her.
Our Approach
Together, we can make it different.
Here’s how:
Our work helps clients shift attitudes, move people to action, and bring about positive change.
For over a decade, we have tailored our services to the needs of nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies, specializing in branding, advertising, marketing, and web. Our team of skilled professionals share a dedication to creating the best work and making a positive difference in communities.
We believe that consistent, strategic, and creative communications are at the center of any organization’s success, and have built our agency around providing nonprofits and organizations of all sizes the highest quality services. Through partnership with the funding community we are able to offer a sliding scale to smaller nonprofits to help advance bigger, faster and more meaningful change.
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