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Cattail Communication provides consulting services to develop advocacy programming. Our focus areas are administrative and operations support, written content, web development, and speaking engagements.

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Administrative Support

With experience in event planning, media outreach, copywriting, volunteer oversight, marketing strategy, program development, sponsor relations, and more, we are ready to bring the organization to your organization! Our team is highly organized and here to support you with your administrative and operations needs.

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Speaking Engagements

We provide speaking engagements on topics like LGBTQIA+ intersectionality with rare diseases, self care and self-advocacy navigating healthcare systems, young adult opportunities in patient advocacy, and more! Reach out to learn more and book speaking engagements for conferences, private events, webinars, podcasts, and more.

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Front End Web Development

Want a brand new website with eCommerce from scratch? Need someone on call to update your website with new content month to month as you grow? Looking for a guest blogger for the occasional update? We are here to support you every step of the way to at the level right for your team to ensure your online presence is optimized for your audience.

We help teams reach every part of their community

Cattail Communication provides administrative and consulting services to develop advocacy programming.

Our focus areas are to help you improve your copywriting, presentations, and administrative setup. We bring the organization to organizations with our insights based on years of professional and lived experience with advocacy in rare disease, mental health, and 2SLGBTQIA+ movements. Our goal is to boost your storytelling to bring your valuable work to as many people who can benefit from it as possible. Reach out today to find out how Cattail Communication can support you.

Why Choose Us

Curiosity

Curiosity drives creativity and problem-solving. We are always eager to listen, learn, and develop compassionate collaboration alongside community members.

Accessibility

Accessibility and equity are at the heart of our values. Our vision is to empower advocacy teams to provide programming that reaches every part of their community.

Transparency

Transparency and accountability are key to thoughtful collaboration. We will always be honest about who we are, how we work, and our efforts toward growth and sustainability.

What kind of experience does Carter have with storytelling?

Carter Hemion is the author of two poetry collections, SLT SHKR (2025) and Allergic to Sanity (2024) from Bottlecap Press. They were a freelance news reporter from 2019-2022 for print and digital publications and they have published short stories, poetry, and visual art in literary magazines. They have also shared their personal rare disease story in a number of articles and books.

Carter is also a public speaker with experience speaking for rare disease conferences, non-profit organizations, pharmaceutical companies, podcasts & radio shows, and a variety of webinars to share their knowledge and experiences with others

As co-host of the Stripes of Solidarity podcast, Rare & Real, and a guest speaker on a number of other podcasts, Carter brings a dedication to authentic and honest storytelling with intentions to increase awareness and promote change around issues they care about.

On a daily basis, Carter works with organizations, institutions, agencies, and companies on uplifting community members’ stories to build empathy, connection, and care as a means to promote positive change.

Do you use generative AI?

No, Cattail Communication does not use generative AI to create any of our content. Every piece of writing, editing, and strategy development is done with intention by a human.

Why don’t you use generative AI? Wouldn’t it be easier?

AI contributes to climate change with its carbon emissions, water and electricity use, generation of pollutants, and more, not to mention risks of spreading misinformation about climate issues. These issues disproportionately impact communities already being most harmed by climate change.

Generative AI platforms are frequently trained on copyrighted works, often without the knowledge or consent of creators, to create work that may closely resemble to copyrighted material. In support of writers, artists, and independent creators of all kinds, we do not ethically support this use of AI.

Incidents of harm from AI increase every year, including problems with discrimination & bias, privacy & security, socioeconomic & environmental problems, and many other issues.

In our commitment to sustainability, health equity, and supporting human content creators, we cannot in good faith justify contributing to these harms, especially when we are capable of learning new skills, collaborating with other communication experts, and doing the same good work without using generative AI tools.

What environmental sustainability efforts do you make?

This website is hosted with Greek Geeks, a web hosting platform that plants a tree for every customer and matches its energy usage, like from staff workstations and servers, three times what is used to power it.

Ecosia is our primary search engine to plant trees with web searches.

We choose to bank with a credit union dedicated to environmental sustainability, create graphics on a platform with dedicated sustainability programs, manufacture items through Eco-friendly printers, and never use generative AI. We will continue to make environmentally sustainable choices, and do our best to learn and grow as a company to maintain this value in everything we do.