Denise Clifton founded Tandemvines Media to provide organizations and individuals with the strategic tools to celebrate, tell and own their stories.

For corporate clients like Alaska Airlines, Denise develops compelling written features and leads interviews at the heart of videos illuminating the unique stories driving the brand on its owned channels. The sharp editorial content she crafts for clients often becomes a resource for media outreach. Denise has also produced several books, including a visually compelling digital book for Pike Place Market, and in hardcover and paperback, The Woman in the Room: A Memoir for pioneering Seattle architect L. Jane Hastings.

Denise has a deep passion for telling the stories behind food, and she developed a two-year narrative project celebrating the alumni of Project Feast, a Kent, Washington-based nonprofit that provides immigrant and refugee cooks with professional culinary skills. She is also the author of Tables From the Rubble, which explores the role of San Francisco restaurants in the recovery after the 1906 earthquake and highlights a few from the time period still feeding the city today.

Before starting Tandemvines Media, Denise worked for nearly 20 years as an award-winning journalist and art director for the Seattle Times — giving her a foundation in leading collaborative storytelling projects that she continues to build on today.

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