MCDONALD’SBEAT OF MY CITY2019
Product Strategy
Community Management
Creative Ideation
Digital Experience
For McDonald's Beat of My City — a campaign celebrating hometown communities and culture with Teyana Taylor (New York) and Juice WRLD (Chicago) — I led the winning pitch: Annotate for Good, a technology integration turning fan activity into real donations. Every annotation, lyric contribution, and site engagement during the campaign triggered a matching McDonald's donation of up to $20,000, directly benefiting the charities each artist personally selected — Harlem's Dunlevy Milbank Center for Teyana, and 100 Black Men of Chicago for Juice WRLD.

We layered the mechanic into Genius's existing franchises — feature interviews, In Real Life, and on-the-ground event coverage — turning passive readership into a fundraising engine and driving major spikes in engagement across the site. The campaign ultimately raised over $70,000 for the two organizations.