Multi-City Event

Campaign National Tour

Provided tech and content production for fundraising events at 14 unique venues across America.

In 2015 and 2016, I traveled to 14 different venues as a part of Biola University's Campaign National Tour — seeking to raise funds as part of Biola's comprehensive capital campaign.

Each venue brought unique challenges: Some were close enough to our home base to be able to drive a truck full of gear to. Others required coordinating rental gear (oftentimes sight unseen) from local vendors.

I and one other rotating crew member handled 100% of the tech (video, audio, and lighting) at each event — and sometimes also the staging and pipe & drape.

I created all of the content shown on-screen, customized to each location.

• Newport Beach, California: Newport Beach Civic Center
• Riverside, California: The Mission Inn
• San Diego, California: Natural History Museum
• Phoenix, Arizona: monOrchid Gallery
• Sacramento, California: Library Galleria
• Washington, D.C.: Whittemore House
• Manhattan, New York: Lightbox
• San Francisco, California: Presidio Officer’s Club
• Seattle, Washington: Edgewater Hotel
• Dallas, Texas: The Forum
• Portland, Oregon: Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
• Denver, Colorado: Artwork Network
• Los Angeles, California: Gensler
• Chicago, Illinois: Union League Club of Chicago

One particular highlight for me was the New York venue, which allowed me to create specialized assets to take advantage of the 360-degree projection in the event space.

In total, the events raised nearly $860,000 for Biola University.

One critical element to ensuring local support at each event was creating video content specialized for most of the locations. In advance of the events, I flew out with my team to film videos highlighting alumni at many of the locations. You can see a gallery of those here.