Energetic and motivated individual with high personal standards of quality and excellence. Experienced in modern computer design software including Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite.A professional writer and graduate of Elizabethtown College, I hope to make the most of my writing experience in my future career endeavors. I hold a bachelor's degree in Professional Writing from Elizabethtown and graduated summa cum laude with Honors in the Discipline for English.During my four years at Elizabethtown, I worked to produce and provided content for the Physics and Engineering Department Newsletter. My creative work has appeared in Fine Print, Elizabethtown College's literary journal, and The Blue Zine, an online publication that I helped create through my tenure as president of Literati. I have also presented my work at academic conferences at Elizabethtown College and Susquehanna University. I was awarded the Elizabethtown College Scholar award two years in a row and in my senior year was nominated for the Wenger and Pownell awards. I am also a two-time recipient of the Louise Baugher Black Award for excellence in nonfiction writing.Currently, I am the Associate Director in the Office of Scientific Programs within the Education Division at the American Psychiatric Association. In addition to working with a highly skilled team to put together the educational program for the association's annual meetings, I make sure our outward facing content, such as meeting publications and other educational content, presents a positive face for the organization and the Education Division in particular. During my time at APA, I have written applications using VBA and Google Apps Script to streamline the work of our office and have utilized Microsoft Power BI to visualize meeting data in a way that assists decision-making processes for both internal and external stakeholders.Specialties: journalism, publishing, writing, editing, design, copy editing, education, VBA, data visualization
Listed skills include Creative Writing, Editing, Copy Editing, Writing, and 19 others.