I am not a communications guru.

I am not a social media ninja.

And I am not any sort of rock star.

I am a storyteller.

Everyone has a story. My specialty is helping people, from Paralympic athletes to stroke survivors, use their stories to engage media and sponsors.

When I was 12 years old, I began sharing the stories of the world’s top figure skaters, helping launch Figure Skaters Online, an online news network that also provides digital and social media services to athletes including Olympic and world medalists Sasha Cohen, Evan Lysacek and Johnny Weir. The website, which had as many as 4.5 million monthly hits, was named by The New York Times as one of the top figure skating websites to visit.

After graduating from the University of Arizona in my hometown of Tucson, I moved on to become the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America/USA Softball marketing and communications assistant director and United States Olympic Committee Paralympic communications manager. I have traveled to Canada, Colombia, England, France, Germany, Indonesia, Russia and South Africa and cities across the United States to help tell Team USA’s stories on and off the field of play.

“I have been in this for eight years and you have given me more publicity than I have ever received,” one U.S. Paralympics swimmer told me. “And it isn’t just me! It’s so many deserving Paralympians.”

My coolest experience so far was marching in the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games with the U.S. Paralympic Team, helping tell Team USA’s story as a part of the Samsung blogger project for the International Paralympic Committee.

I tell stories on the U.S. Paralympics website.

I tell stories on social media.

I tell stories on the phone and on email.

I have even told stories to strangers on the top of New Hampshire’s Mount Monadnock.

No wonder I’ve been called “Paralympics chief storyteller.”

I think every place is perfect for a story. And I am so fortune to have made a career of telling people’s stories anywhere, everywhere and in a way that inspires all Americans.

In January 2015, after nearly three years with the U.S. Olympic Committee, I started a new adventure with the American Heart Association — as Jamie Blanchard Schneider. I married in November 2014.