Leah has 25+ years experience in small businesses and non-profit organizations with strengths in social media, website design and management, graphic design and production, email marketing, and internet research.
A volunteer with the Charlottesville Track Club (CTC) for over 13 years, she manages CTC's online presence, social media, and email, designing logos and marketing materials, managing membership and race registration databases, administering training programs including the Marathon and Half Marathon Training Program and Ten Miler Training Program, and race directing including the creation of the Rivanna Greenbelt Marathon in 2014.
As a freelance consultant with Ragged Mountain Running & Walking Shop she provides graphic design and digital marketing assistance for social media, email, web, and print projects including the C-VILLE-athon and Ragged Walks.
Leah has expertise with several content management systems such as Drupal, CMS-Plus, and WordPress; e-mail marketing software including Bronto, Alterian, MailChimp, and Constant Contact; Adobe Creative Suite; Microsoft Office; Google analytics; and social media tools including Hootsuite and Social Studio.
Her academic background is in the liberal and fine arts with an MA in Women's Studies from The George Washington University and MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University.
Leah has strong organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple projects at once while completing quality work on a timely basis and within frequent, tight deadlines.
An avid long-distance runner and RRCA certified race director and running coach, Leah has an interest in athletic training and physiology, injury prevention, and sports nutrition. Passionate about training and racing, she has completed 37 marathons (including Boston 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017), dozens of half-marathons, ten-milers, and many other shorter races since 2007.
Learn why Leah thinks every runner should volunteer at a race by watching Lessons Learned, Everything Marathoning with special guest, Joan Benoit Samuelson.
Leah is a Pokémon Go enthusiast who achieved Level 40 status on December 21, 2017 and Level 46 on April 12, 2021. She's also a frequent competitor on team "Our Doubts Are Traitors" with Geeks Who Drink trivia and a fundraiser for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.
A volunteer with the Charlottesville Track Club (CTC) for over 13 years, she manages CTC's online presence, social media, and email, designing logos and marketing materials, managing membership and race registration databases, administering training programs including the Marathon and Half Marathon Training Program and Ten Miler Training Program, and race directing including the creation of the Rivanna Greenbelt Marathon in 2014.
As a freelance consultant with Ragged Mountain Running & Walking Shop she provides graphic design and digital marketing assistance for social media, email, web, and print projects including the C-VILLE-athon and Ragged Walks.
Leah has expertise with several content management systems such as Drupal, CMS-Plus, and WordPress; e-mail marketing software including Bronto, Alterian, MailChimp, and Constant Contact; Adobe Creative Suite; Microsoft Office; Google analytics; and social media tools including Hootsuite and Social Studio.
Her academic background is in the liberal and fine arts with an MA in Women's Studies from The George Washington University and MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University.
Leah has strong organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple projects at once while completing quality work on a timely basis and within frequent, tight deadlines.
An avid long-distance runner and RRCA certified race director and running coach, Leah has an interest in athletic training and physiology, injury prevention, and sports nutrition. Passionate about training and racing, she has completed 37 marathons (including Boston 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017), dozens of half-marathons, ten-milers, and many other shorter races since 2007.
Learn why Leah thinks every runner should volunteer at a race by watching Lessons Learned, Everything Marathoning with special guest, Joan Benoit Samuelson.
Leah is a Pokémon Go enthusiast who achieved Level 40 status on December 21, 2017 and Level 46 on April 12, 2021. She's also a frequent competitor on team "Our Doubts Are Traitors" with Geeks Who Drink trivia and a fundraiser for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.
Logo Designs
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"Leah began working with LWT in 1998, before HWT was even a company, and worked to launch the first hwtears.com webpage (check out an archived workshops page from Wayback Machine). Leah joined as an employee in January 2001 working in graphic & website design for the Creative group. She transitioned to the Marketing team in 2011 to support the growth and intensity that came with posting and marketing workshops. Leah became a master of coding, filtering, and deploying LWT email marketing campaigns and let’s not forget her meticulous work getting the print and online order forms and pricing correct. Most recently, she has handled social media, curating delightful, fun, and engaging content. Leah also cultivated meaningful relationships with customers, helping to share their stories across the company social channels. We appreciate Leah’s decades of work and collaboration to drive the web, shopping cart, workshops, marketing, and sales. Her work has been instrumental in getting LWT materials to tens of millions of children over the years!"
- HR at Learning Without Tears
- HR at Learning Without Tears
Leah, Jan Z. Olsen, OTR, and Emily Knapton, M.Ed., OTR/L
Handwriting Without Tears, 2007 |
Eric Olsen, Jan Olsen, Leah Connor, and Kirstin Parsons (2015)
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“Leah Connor is in so many ways the driving force in bringing people together in our running community. Her tireless efforts, in helping to market and organize hundreds of races, running events and training programs, have helped to entertain tens of thousands of runners and, in the process, raise immeasurable funds for countless charitable causes. Simply put, thanks to her selfless dedication in volunteering her time and sharing her talents, creativity and passions, Leah is the flag bearer in bringing running to life in Central Virginia!”
- Mark Lorenzoni. co-owner of Ragged Mountain Running & Walking Shop and Coach for Charlottesville Track Club |
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“I’ve had the pleasure of working with Leah as a volunteer with the Charlottesville Track club for over a decade and a half. Together, we have worked to support the Marathon and Half Marathon Training program every summer. In addition to provide excellent and professional creative support, from marketing to social media presence, Leah is also an excellent project manager, diligent with details, and an excellent collaborator. She handles challenges expertly and is incredibly conscientious and she is always looking for ways to improve processes and how we deliver the program. Without her leadership, we most certainly would not have made the continuous improvements and updates to this immensely successful program that we have. I would highly recommend Leah for any position that requires this kind of diligence, follow through, leadership, and creative teamwork.”
Joan Bienvenue, Executive Director and Vice Provost, Oak Ridge Institute at the University of Tennessee
“In my experience, there are those who think of ideas and those who execute them. Leah Connor is a rare example of those who do both with equal skill and enthusiasm. I’ve witnessed this as part of the Charlottesville running community to which she contributes so much. The Rivanna Greenbelt Marathon and Half Marathon not only arose from Leah’s vision, but continues to happen because of her follow-through with details ranging from coure design to certification to publicity to volunteers to aid-stations to race-swag. And she manages it all with a combination of personal work-ethic and the ability to generate enthusiasm from others. She’s the whole package.”
Harry Landers, Boston Bound Running Club Captain
Joan Bienvenue, Executive Director and Vice Provost, Oak Ridge Institute at the University of Tennessee
“In my experience, there are those who think of ideas and those who execute them. Leah Connor is a rare example of those who do both with equal skill and enthusiasm. I’ve witnessed this as part of the Charlottesville running community to which she contributes so much. The Rivanna Greenbelt Marathon and Half Marathon not only arose from Leah’s vision, but continues to happen because of her follow-through with details ranging from coure design to certification to publicity to volunteers to aid-stations to race-swag. And she manages it all with a combination of personal work-ethic and the ability to generate enthusiasm from others. She’s the whole package.”
Harry Landers, Boston Bound Running Club Captain