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MKDM's management team includes strategy-minded in-house professionals who are highly knowledgeable of the issues and sensibilities important to nonprofits today and skilled at translating unique client objectives into results-oriented fundraising efforts. Supplementing the talents of our in-house staff is a group of award-winning design and copywriting partners with whom we have worked closely for years.

Meet the MKDM Team:

Moira Kavanagh Crosby, President | mkcrosby@mkdmc.com
MK Direct Marketing + Communications was founded in 1999 by Moira Kavanagh Crosby. In more than 15 years working with nonprofit organizations, she has designed and managed successful direct response fundraising programs for national and regional nonprofits of all sizes.

Moira began her fundraising career in Cambridge, Massachusetts managing analytical, strategic, creative and fulfillment elements of telemarketing campaigns for national advocacy and environmental organizations. She served subsequently as vice president of a full service direct response agency in New York, where she developed and executed integrated direct marketing programs for a wide variety of progressive advocacy and social service organizations.

Moira Kavanagh Crosby serves on the Steering Committee of the Center for Nonprofit Excellence and is a past board member and president of the Direct Marketing Fundraisers Association, an alliance of over 300 nonprofit organizations, consultants and industry suppliers. She graduated cum laude from Tufts University with a B.A. in English. As an undergraduate she served as President of Tufts Student Resources, the largest nonprofit, student-run businessin the country, which employed over 200 students in its nine divisions.

Moira is the chief strategist and creative director for all MKDM accounts.

Tatiana Sainati, Account Executive | tsainati@mkdmc.com
Tati Sainati joined MKDM as an Account Executive in 2007. With a background in creative writing cultivated at Northwestern Universtiy and the University of Virginia, Tati brings unique and creative talents to MKDM clients.

Tati recieved her B.A. in English from Northwestern University and her M.A. in English Literature from the Universtiy of Virginia. As an undergraduate, she distinguished herself as a National Merit Scholar at the University's Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences where she studied English Literature; at the University of Virginia she specialized in English.

Tati provides day-to-day management of MKDM accounts, with a special focus on women's and social service issues and print and direct mail production.

Eliza Temeles, Account Executive | etemeles@mkdmc.com
Eliza Temeles joined MKDM as an Account Executive in 2006. With hands-on experience in data management and donor relations with the Western Virginia Land Trust, Eliza brings creativity and dedication to help MKDM's clients achieve their goals.

Eliza graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College, where she received her B.A. in English. She was also a scholar of economics and the sciences, and was awarded the Geology Department's Richard M. Foose Award for support of summer research projects.

As an account executive, Eliza provides daily management of MKDM accounts, specializing in environmental and advocacy accounts, direct mail production and analysis, as well as grants research and creative donor communications.

Sarah Van Duyn, Account Executive | svanduyn@mkdmc.com
Sarah Van Duyn joined MKDM as an Account Executive in 2007.  With a background in research and program consultation with the Cornell University Institute for Policy Research and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she brings specialized analytic and strategic skills to help MKDM’s clients achieve their goals.

Sarah graduated Phi Sigma Pi and at the top of her class at Cornell University, receiving her B.S. in Policy Analysis and Management from the school of Human Ecology.  She specialized in consumer marketing, government and history.

As an Account Executive, Sarah provides daily management of MKDM accounts, with a special focus on social and health issues, direct mail production, list analysis and targeting.

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