Aaron Kase Email & Phone Number

I've reported and written news and feature stories in the United States, Africa, South America and other locations for various print and web publications. I also develop and write content related to small business, government, the law and other topics.Some career highlights:• Wrote for Narrative.ly, Salon.com, Philadelphia Weekly, Alternet.org, Hidden City Philadelphia, Lawyers.com, Jerseyman Magazine, PhlMetropolis.com, the Roxborough Review and other venues• Contributed travel stories from around the world to BBC Travel, Guardian Travel, VICE Munchies and other venues• Independently investigated and published an eBook on the 2009 murder of a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa• Contributed posts on marketing topics for small businesses for Business Accelerator, an online American Family Insurance publication• Wrote blogs and web copy for three subsidiaries of Direct Energy, a national electricity retailer• Wrote blog posts, professional profiles and award submissions for various attorneys nationwide• Founded, edited and produced French language village newsletter written by local students in Zogore, Burkina Faso in 2008• Co-edited, produced and wrote for Peace Corps Burkina Faso newsletter in 2007-2008• Published monthly piece on life, culture and economy in Burkina Faso in the Roxborough Review newspaper from 2006-2008• Completed five month internship at Roxborough Review newspaper in 2004-2005 in reporting, writing, photography, composition and all aspects of producing a weekly neighborhood paper

Greater Philadelphia

• Application QA and project management to support software engineering efforts• Assist clients with troubleshooting and enforcement of data integrity• Perform regular systems maintenance and upkeep• Oversee operating assets • Update and maintain SCADA resources to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities, enhance security, and comply with NERC CIP requirements

Report and write original stories about the law for the Lawyers.com news blog, a property of LexisNexis. Bring practical news and analysis to Americans, so they can understand their rights and get justice through the legal system. Our mission is to inform, outrage and engage people.• Beat reporter for U.S. Supreme Court cases• Beat reporter for LGBT legal affairs• Focus on citizens' personal rights: First, Second, Fourth and Seventh Amendment protections.• Also cover stories on civil rights, technology and social media law, immigration, voting rights, criminal defense, bankruptcy, family law, labor and employment, real estate, insurance, class actions, medical malpractice and personal injury

Investigated, reported and wrote weekly news stories, daily blog posts and monthly cover stories on government affairs, neighborhood news and social issues in Philadelphia. Covered subjects as varied as the tow-truck industry, gay rights campaigns and efforts to fight violence city-wide. Interviewed subjects from all walks of life from Mayor Michael Nutter to people experiencing homelessness and addiction on the streets of North Philly.• Broke stories on government corruption including improper phone use by city employees and excessive gas consumption by an elected official in a city-owned car• Awarded first place for investigative reporting and first and third place for feature writing in weekly papers for 2010 by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association• Received honorable mention for news writing by the national Association of Alternative Newsmedia for 2010

Burkina Faso

Coordinated economic development projects in a rural village in Burkina Faso, West Africa, including organizing a tree nursery, facilitating planting thousands of trees of various species, HIV/AIDS outreach, fuel-conserving stoves, improved agricultural techniques and beekeeping.

Coordinated project upgrading point-of-sale systems and linking them to inventory database for 15 restaurants nationwide.

Ba, History

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