Workingwith
purpose.
Since 2004, we’ve partnered with our clients across California to build authentic community connections that drive measurable results. Our local insight, cross-sector expertise, and practical approach transform how healthcare providers, nonprofits, government agencies, and businesses engage with the communities they serve.
Get to know
our team.
Get to know the people who'll be helping your organization connect more meaningfully with the communities that matter to your success.
Leadership Team
Gordon Fowler
Founder & CEO
Helping You Understand Communities
Gordon listens before he leads. For more than 25 years, he’s helped California organizations including health systems, school districts, and city governments, see past assumptions and find common ground in complex community conversations. His strength lies in turning what’s complicated into what’s clear. When strategies stall, he brings the right voices together to find a way forward. Gordon has led multi-partner initiatives that built trust across entire regions, proving that listening isn’t soft, it’s smart strategy.
Jamie Von Sossan
President
Helping You See Where Brand and Community Intersect
Jamie helps organizations find where their mission meets their community’s needs and turns that connection into momentum. From statewide workforce campaigns to public agency recruitment, she’s helped institutions across California translate purpose into measurable results. Her background in sports marketing taught her that loyalty isn’t bought; it’s built through shared experience. Jamie balances structure with flexibility, leading teams that adapt quickly without losing focus. For her, it’s about finding the spark that moves people and building strategies that sustain it.
Client Strategy and Communication
Carolyn Hopkins-Vasquez
VP of Client Services
Helping You Stay Connected to Your Purpose
Carolyn helps organizations stay true to their “why.” She bridges strategy and empathy, ensuring every initiative reflects both purpose and community reality. Her leadership on statewide public campaigns and local outreach programs has helped healthcare providers and public agencies earn trust where it matters most. She pairs data with on-the-ground feedback to guide organizations through change, ensuring progress doesn’t lose its heart. For Carolyn, connection isn’t a deliverable, it’s the outcome.
Angela Criser
VP of Communications
Helping Organizations Communicate with Clarity and Purpose
Angela helps organizations find the message beneath the noise and the strategy to make it matter. She builds communication frameworks that unify departments, strengthen public understanding, and sustain clarity long after a project ends. Over two decades, she’s helped healthcare systems, colleges, and government agencies across California align messaging with mission and measure what truly matters: understanding and trust. For Angela, story and strategy meet where communication becomes action, turning plans into progress.
Camille Krahn
Senior Account Executive
Helping You Navigate Your Project Journey
Camille keeps teams connected and confident from kickoff to completion. With a background in community-focused account management and multi-sector campaigns, she bridges strategy and execution, keeping even the most complex projects organized, on track, and on budget. Camille turns ambition into alignment, ensuring every milestone leads somewhere meaningful. For her, success isn’t just delivery, it’s trust built along the way.
Zoe Manzanetti
Senior Account Executive
Helping You Move Projects Forward with Clarity and Confidence
Zoe brings structure and calm to complex initiatives. She’s managed statewide partnerships, internal campaigns, and large-scale public programs, keeping people, timelines, and expectations moving in sync. With a background in journalism and digital engagement, she knows how information moves through organizations and how to keep everyone aligned through it. Zoe anticipates challenges before they appear, turning planning into progress and coordination into clarity. For her, success is collaboration that drives real, visible impact.
Media and Channel Strategy
Christie Pierce
VP of Media
Helping You Reach People Where They Are
Christie doesn’t just buy placements; he earns attention. He’s led campaigns reaching millions of Californians, connecting healthcare providers, workforce programs, and utilities with the communities they serve. His approach combines precision and empathy: using analytics to understand not just where people are, but why they engage. With experience in 13 countries and deep Sacramento roots, Christie makes every placement intentional and every impression meaningful. For him, strategy starts with curiosity, because real results begin with understanding.
Sophia Mark
Campaign Manager
Helping You Turn Insights into Impact
Sophia translates data into direction. She’s built media plans for major California brands like Visit California, Sky River Casino, and California Grown, combining analytical precision with cultural fluency. From streaming audio to paid search, her work turns insights into engagement and metrics into movement. For Sophia, every campaign is an experiment in empathy: understanding what motivates people and designing media that moves them.
Creative and Design
Angel Membrere
Creative Director
Helping You Show Up Authentically
Angel designs for belonging. His visuals don’t demand attention, they invite it. Having led creative for brands like Taco Bell and statewide initiatives like Build California, he knows how to make messages feel both bold and real. Every color, image, and layout choice starts with one question: will this make people feel seen? Angel’s storytelling transforms outreach into pride, helping communities recognize themselves in the work.
Maria Ratinova
Senior Graphic Designer
Helping Communities See Themselves
Maria’s design philosophy is simple: representation builds connection. With two decades of experience across print, digital, and motion graphics, she helps organizations communicate across California’s diverse cultures with care and respect. Her design work has supported colleges, healthcare providers, and public agencies statewide, ensuring no audience feels like an afterthought. For Maria, authentic design isn’t decoration, it’s how people know they belong.
Project and Community Activation
Isabel Matick
Project Manager
Helping Turn Vision Into Reality
Isabel turns inspiration into organization. She aligns teams, timelines, and resources to make strategy actionable and campaigns achievable. From regional outreach programs to multi-department education and workforce initiatives, Isabel keeps projects running smoothly: on schedule, on budget, and in rhythm with community needs. She asks the right questions before challenges arise, creating space for teams to stay focused on connection, not chaos.
Aleya Samaniego
Community and Content Coordinator
Helping You Stay Connected to the People You Serve
Aleya keeps organizations grounded in what’s real: what people are saying, feeling, and doing in their communities every day. She turns local insights into communication that feels human, not corporate, bridging on-the-ground experience with digital storytelling. Whether coordinating events, developing content, or translating feedback into action, Aleya helps clients build authentic relationships through listening, reflection, and care.
Our approach and
how this drives us.
Imagine
We start by dreaming big with you. What would success truly look like? What obstacles have prevented progress? What possibilities exist that haven't been explored? This phase is about expanding what's possible before determining what's practical.
Create
Next, we develop pragmatic strategies that work within your real-world constraints. We identify the resources, tools, and approaches that can transform possibilities into plans. This is where our Sacramento Region knowledge becomes invaluable—we understand which approaches will resonate because we're part of the local context.
Connect
Finally, we bring everything to life in ways that build lasting community relationships. Whether it’s helping people understand your work, take action, or become advocates, we make sure your efforts result in meaningful engagement, not just outputs. We equip you with the tools, training, and support to keep the connection going long after the launch.
Community connection that
drives real results.
The Challenge
In a region as diverse as Sacramento, organizations struggle to truly connect with the communities they serve. Generic marketing approaches fall flat. Programs miss their targets. Resources get wasted. And opportunities to create meaningful impact slip away.
Our Solution
Since 2004, 3fold has specialized in bridging these gaps. We help healthcare providers, nonprofits, government agencies, and community-focused businesses build authentic relationships that deliver measurable outcomes. Our deep roots in the Sacramento Region give us insights that outsiders miss and connections that transform how organizations engage with their communities.
The Impact
Our clients don't just communicate better—they achieve tangible results that strengthen their organizations and the communities they serve. Our case studies below demonstrate how our community-centered approach translates into measurable outcomes across different sectors.
The industries
we serve.
Healthcare
Healthcare providers connecting patients with life-changing care.
Nonprofits
Nonprofits building support for crucial missions.
Education
Educational institutions creating pathways to opportunity.
Government
Government agencies improving public participation.
Member Organizations
Trade associations strengthening member engagement.
Businesses
Community-focused businesses building customer loyalty through local impact.
A commitment to
community involvement.
We believe in practicing what we preach. Our team is actively involved in strengthening the Sacramento Region, including roles on:
Awards and
recognition.
We believe in practicing what we preach. Our team is actively involved in strengthening the Sacramento Region, including roles on:
Industry Excellence
Our approach to community connection has earned recognition from leading industry organizations.
- American Advertising Federation Awards (ADDY) for creative campaigns that break through the noise.
- Hermes Creative Awards recognizing excellence in concept, writing, and design.
- PRSA San Diego, Edward L. Bernays "Mark of Excellence" Award for innovative public relations strategies.
- Ragan Communications Awards for effective corporate communications.
- CAPIO Epic Awards celebrating outstanding public information and communications.
- Community College Planning and Research Organization (CCPRO) Awards for excellence in educational marketing.
Community Impact
Our commitment to the Sacramento region has been recognized by local organizations.
- Sacramento Metro Chamber Small Business of the Year for our contributions to the regional economy.
- Sacramento Business Journal's Corporate Citizenship Award recognizing our commitment to making the region a better place.
- Sacramento Business Journal's Most Admired CEO recognizing Gordon Fowler's leadership and community involvement.
- Sacramento PRSA PR Professional of the Year honoring excellence in public relations.
- City of Sacramento Economic Gardening 2.0 Grant Recipient supporting our growth and innovation.
- Certified Ethical Advertising Executive (CEAE), the first and only ethical certification for advertising industry practitioners.
These recognitions reflect our ongoing commitment to excellence, innovation, and meaningful community impact. They represent not just what we've achieved, but what we've helped our clients achieve throughout the Sacramento region.
Ready to make
something happen.
Let’s talk about your business and how to best connect with your community.
