Liz Banse is vice president at Resource Media. Liz has orchestrated communications strategy and media outreach on policy and consumer campaigns on leading community, health and environmental concerns from toxics in cleaning products to establishing a network of marine protected areas off the California coast. Her practice areas span all aspects of communications planning, traditional and online media strategy and outreach, public opinion research, visual storytelling, message development, branding, materials development and production, organizational marketing and crisis communications. Prior to joining Resource Media, Liz worked as a Senior Account Executive at the public relations firm, MWW/Savitt. She is the author of Seeing is Believing, a best practices guide to visual storytelling, downloadable at http://www.resource-media.org/visual-story-lab/.