FC Faith Cheltenham Public home for systems, campaigns, and client-ready work
About

Operator, strategist, platform builder, and public communicator.

Faith Cheltenham turns public credibility into working systems clients can inspect.

Her background spans business leadership, AI workflows, digital platforms, brand management, journalism, advocacy, and client-facing execution. The portfolio is built around that mix: credible in public, useful behind the scenes.

AI WorkflowsWordPress SystemsBrand StrategyPublic ProofClient Decks

Operator Lens

Faith approaches leadership as a combination of narrative clarity, disciplined execution, and trust across very different rooms. She is at home in public conversation, but equally focused on the systems that let a team keep moving after the first meeting, launch, or press moment.

The through-line across media, advocacy, venture, and AI work is simple: make complex ideas understandable, then make the ambitious work operationally possible.

Selected Background

  • CEO and platform lead at XXYYZZ Society, building AI-enabled workflows, dashboards, and internal systems for distributed work.
  • Writing, advocacy, and public voice recognition began in childhood in San Luis Obispo, including early work under the name Faith Atwater.
  • Early social web operator across Friendster, MySpace, Amp'd Mobile social media work in 2006, and Facebook beta-era use as a UCLA student in 2004.
  • MBA candidate at Pepperdine Graziadio with a strategic management and marketing focus.
  • Completed a B.S. in Business Management from University of Phoenix after a major life rebuild, then continued into graduate business study and global platform work.
  • Former digital brand manager and strategic advisor for the Office of Sarah Ferguson, leading public brand, platform, content, and partnership work.
  • Senior Web Producer for Macmillan/Tor.com, helping launch a major genre publishing platform across editorial, design, development, and audience workflows.
  • Agency-side social media and digital marketing lead with campaigns connected to Oprah Winfrey Network, the U.S. Navy, Warner Bros. fandom work, SEO/SEM, PPC, CRM, and reporting.
  • Online marketing experience includes Scholastic email and promotional work reaching a national educator audience at 1.2M+ subscribers.
  • Co-creator of Bisexual Awareness Week, with campaign work that has reached hundreds of millions through social and public-interest channels.
  • Published and cited across HuffPost, Advocate, White House archive, IMDb, NLGJA-connected journalism spaces, and national LGBTQ media.
  • Speaker and moderator with appearances connected to UCLA, Facebook, Bank of America, the White House and federal policy spaces, Comic-Con, universities, ERGs, and high-visibility cultural conversations.
  • Creator-platform and trust-and-safety experience across adult internet history, content moderation, creator monetization, consent-forward design, and platform accountability.
  • Supported early Black Lives Matter digital and community infrastructure while advocating for Black, bi+, pan, trans, and survivor-centered inclusion.
Operating Range

Images That Show The Work

CO-AI/Canva image slots support the portfolio story: the operator desk, the internet timeline, the public record, and the protected Sarah private room.

Operator Desk

Websites, decks, AI workflows, and backend decisions in one working environment.

This lane makes the build work visible: WordPress, Canva, campaign notes, analytics, AI tools, and handoff documentation.

Timeline Map

A public record that moves from early writing and social platforms into modern systems.

This lane gives the site room to show range without asking a client to read every resume, article, deck, and project page first.

Public Record

What Prospective Clients Can Verify

The public record shows social platform fluency, national advocacy, published writing, entertainment and media work, and federal-level public leadership. This site connects those receipts to what Faith builds now.

LinkedIn

Current professional profile and recommendation record for business, writing, production, social media, technology, and marketing experience.

Open Reference

White House Archive

Public recognition tied to bisexual advocacy, community inclusion, and federal public-engagement work.

Open Reference

HuffPost

Published commentary and public writing archive.

Open Reference

IMDb

Media and spoken-word credits, including Black. White. and The Assistant.

Open Reference

Advocate Forty Under 40

National profile connecting bisexual visibility, social media production, and Sarah Ferguson client work.

Open Reference

NLGJA Award Record

National LGBTQ journalism recognition for blogging and public-interest writing.

Open Reference

Comic-Con And Tor.com

Public moderation and cultural work tied to Black LGBTQ media, comics, and genre storytelling.

Open Reference
Path

A Career With Range Clients Can Use

The public bio matters, but the operating pattern matters more: technology, advocacy, media, business, and venture-building feeding into one another.

San Luis Obispo roots

Writing, Advocacy, And Public Voice

Faith began turning lived experience into public voice early, earning recognition for writing and advocacy as a young person in San Luis Obispo under the name Faith Atwater.

Early social web

Community Internet, Platforms, And Culture

Faith grew up around California technology communities, moved through Friendster and MySpace, used Facebook during its UCLA beta-era expansion, and worked in social media for Amp'd Mobile.

Media and advocacy

Public Voice With Operational Responsibility

Her work grew through publishing, digital marketing, national advocacy, public speaking, Black LGBTQ organizing, and brand stewardship for public figures and high-trust communities.

Publishing and campaigns

Tor.com, Scholastic, OWN, The U.S. Navy, And Fandom

Faith moved between content platforms, educator outreach, agency campaigns, SEO/SEM, CRM, paid media, analytics, and fan-community work before those disciplines became default parts of public launches.

Rebuild and business training

Education, Motherhood, And Operator Discipline

After becoming a mother and rebuilding her life, Faith completed her business degree, entered Pepperdine's MBA program, and translated lived experience into more disciplined strategy, operations, and client systems work.

Current platform work

AI, Operations, And Client-Ready Systems

Today the emphasis is on websites, private admin systems, AI-supported workflows, and strategy decks that make complex work easier to understand and run.