Martin Yoder

I am an internationally-focused communications specialist with a passion for all things in education.

Roving Secretary, Community Liaison Office

10/2018–12/2019

USA Embassy, Moscow (Russia)

 ● Coordinated onboarding for approximately 50 arriving staff, spouses, and children to transition employees and families to Embassy Moscow.

● Planned, organized and managed over 20 in-person events featuring multiple diplomatic and private-sector guests.

 ● Designed, edited and published over 30 editions of the “This Week in Moscow” newsletter to inform the embassy community of relevant news and events.

● Researched and drafted four reports on quality-of-life issues, including childcare and schools, pet shipping, household staff policies, etc., to answer incoming employees’ questions about life at Embassy Moscow. 

● Facilitated and reported on CLO’s fundraising and purchasing activities related to morale-enhancing and inter-embassy events at Embassy Moscow. 

● Supervised the intern position by identifying employee strengths and interests to create level-appropriate job tasks and projects.

Olympic Assistant, Olympics Coordination Office

05/2015-08/2015, 06/2016-08/2016

US Consulate Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

 ● Analysed and synthesized 17 federal government agencies’ reports to compose a 600-page Olympic Playbook delineating U.S. government operations in the areas of security, logistics, and sports diplomacy for the visiting Secretary of State staff’s reference.

● Published a 32-page orientation guide to Rio de Janeiro for arriving employees, some of which was posted online on the #USinRio blog.

● Provided customer service and administrative assistance during onboarding for over 300 US government employees arriving in Rio during the 2016 Olympics.

● Compiled two-hour orientation to provide medical, safety, and occupational information about Rio 2016 to over 100 US employees.

● Filmed and edited 30-second advertisement to recruit candidates for the US Consulate’s hiring campaign

MSc Strategic Communications, LSE (2021)

MANUSCRIPTS

Dissertation Supervisor: Ellen Helsper, Ph. D.

• Yoder, M. Y. (2021). “Dot Com, Dot Edu and Do You Trust This Website?”: The Nature of Trust in the Student-University Relationship in American Higher Education in the post-COVID era. Unpublished manuscript, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics, London, U.K.