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New York City Metropolitan Area

New York City Metropolitan Area

Copy-edit, proofread and fact-check interview transcripts across a range of topics, including healthcare, telecommunications, and financials according to proprietary style guide, ensuring consistency of language and tone across product. Communicate with other teams to uphold editorial standards and style guide.• Copy-edit interview transcripts according to proprietary style guide for an expert-network company across emerging topics in healthcare science, energy and technology for private equity and investment management clients• Balance competing workflow priorities, adjusting as necessary to turn around projects in a deadline-driven environment • Proactively review in-house style guide, recommending, and implementing changes to ensure a dynamic style is deployed to create engaging and timely content for clients• Serve as point-of-contact and Sub-editing team resource in New York, independently engaging and collaborating with different teams to advance an uninterrupted workflow after London team logs off and uphold editorial style

New York City Metropolitan Area

Write, copyedit, and proofread marketing materials, including external messaging, internal communications, and client-focused projects, to ensure consistency and accuracy in brand voice, style, tone, and grammar.• Draft quarterly press releases with concise summaries of all grants to non-profits that result in earned media; content featured multiple times in Harlem World Magazine• Researched, developed, and oversee the New York Community Trust Instagram account by analyzing successful non-profit organizations on the platform and creating content that aligns with brand tone• Interview key non-profit stakeholders and develop and copyedit engaging articles in the annual report, quarterly newsletter, and blog posts to detail the projects that stakeholder donations funded• Develop and oversee content strategy and brand messaging for all social media channels (Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram), with a follower count totaling over 16K across the three platforms while adhering to a style guide• Write and proofread Marketing & Communications team copy that promote the organization and increase public awareness by highlighting grantee accomplishments, engaging current donors, and encouraging prospective giving • Track social media engagement and activity by monitoring metrics to implement future campaign initiatives; directly contributed to an increase in engagement through consistent social media effortso Key metrics include: 2,740 press mentions in 2020, including NYTimes and WSJ; Twitter engagement up by 33% since taking on Fellowship; and 1,508 new followers across Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn

Greater New York City Area

Developed communications plan—PR & Social Media—activities that promote, enhance, and progress the MFA program reputation.• Oversee all media relations and social media efforts for the MFA program and drive public engagement strategy and execution through the writing and editing of press releases to draw media attention • Increase social media presence through regular posting, faculty events, achievement highlights, and live feeds during events; increased follower count by over 100 since overseeing social media management • Developed successful social media campaigns for Black History Month and “Creative Writing Pets,” featuring MFA program faculty and students and their companions; both campaigns increased engagement and followers

Southampton, New York, United States

Communicate with other editors on priorities and schedule for content. Execute content production from draft to publication. Collaborate with writers to ensure content is aligned with the creative literary vision.• Read, evaluate, and curate fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions as well as respond to all submissions• Review, copyedit, and proofread authors’ content according to the style guide to guarantee consistency with Southampton Review branding to prepare for publication• Assisted the Editor-in-Chief with the development of a clear, concise, and consistent style guide• Develop, implement and upkeep the social media plan across all social media channels to promote authors and all published work • Prepared two editions of the literary journal for publication, including one during COVID-19

Greater New York City Area

o Creating product category pages, product descriptions, and reviews, such as for office supply and home security company websites.o Increasing online visibility for local businesses through targeted content creation and SEO services, including keyword research.o Working with Bookrags Inc., writing detailed study guides, including analysis and summary, on books in various genres.

Greater New York City Area

Used developing legal knowledge and experience to assist Legal Editors with daily tasks. Provided and maintained a wide range of Practical Law content by researching updates in corporate law.• Contributed to content development and growth based on nuanced research of corporate, non-profit, and M&A law at the federal and state level, often requiring calling legislative libraries and Attorneys General offices for guidance• Updated team by disseminating relevant regulatory and general business updates in the M&A, corporate, and private equity space, along with daily updates on public and private mergers• Contributed to product growth by researching corporate governance, non-profit, and private equity law for new resources

Greater New York City Area

o Worked with editors to assess incoming submissions and writing reader’s reports necessary.o Contributed to a quick editorial process by implementing author track changes in manuscripts.o Assisted with round edits for author manuscripts.

Greater New York City Area

o Ensured prestige of imprint by evaluating manuscripts and recommending new clients in line by editorial preferences.o Worked on editorial evaluation for different client manuscripts, including fiction and non-fiction titles.o Maximized publicity of new releases through targeted marketed outreach by sending books to specific audiences.

Greater New York City Area

o Read early drafts submitted by clients and provided line edits along with plot and structure feedback.o Analyzed partial manuscripts to assess potential for new clients.

Greater New York City Area

o Provided editing services to college literary reviewo Worked with other editors to edit and discuss creative fiction and non-fiction prose submissionso Acted as a judge for the review’s prose contest

Master Of Fine Arts, Creative Writing – Fiction, 4.0

Bachelor'S Degree, Creative Writing, 3.8

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