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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Review songs and albums spanning genres based on a combination of assignments from editors or pitching music to review myself. Assisted with editing stories for print issue of the magazine, using news judgement, copy editing skills, knowledge of AP style and creative language to help strengthen and guide stories in addition to contributing my own.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Regularly pitched and wrote stories about campus-related events, news and arts and culture for student, faculty and broader Chicago audiences.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Facilitate student engagement with publication, update website as needed, work with student reporters to publish engaging and relevant news stories related to Chicagoland.

Pitched, wrote and submitted articles for online publications aimed at college students nationwide. Wrote long form magazine style articles (minimum 1,000 words) about popular culture, music, television, and commentary.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Assisted team with event listings, drafted and edited press releases, sent out pitches to journalists, organized data and researched media outlets.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Research, write and edit weekly department newsletter delivered via Mailchimp to an audience of nearly 200 students, staff and faculty members. Collaborate with department chair, faculty, staff and fellow students to generate ideas; work with graphic design student to produce attractive, engaging content. Ensure content is timely by meeting tight deadlines. Analyzing open rates and engagement, tailoring content to improve readership.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Reporter and writer for this award-winning community-based news site. Contributed as an individual writer as well as part of team coverage, writing on tight deadlines. Taking classroom assignments and going above and beyond to make them fit for publication.

Pitched, wrote and submitted articles for online publications aimed at college students nationwide. Wrote long form magazine style articles about popular culture, music, television, and commentary. This opportunity enabled me to realize my passion for long form magazine writing, and allowed me to spread my wings as a writer, as I tried out different styles and topics week to week.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Worked as a host of the restaurant. I was part of the team that sat guests, answered phones, made all coffee drinks for guests, and a variety of other tasks. Often helped lead the team in making cafe drinks for guests, and used an electronic waitlist system to seat visitors.

Saint Paul, Mn

Summer and Winter Break Part-Time position. Specializing in communicating with customers and cashiering. This location is at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. With the store being in a busy nationwide retail destination, I adapted to various tasks in a fast-paced environment. My main duty was checking out customers at the register, and promoting our loyalty program and offering to sign guests up for a company card. I often led the team in the number of guests enrolled, and worked my way up levels of employee recognition.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

After a year of being with the company, I was promoted to be a cake decorator. I worked with a small team of other decorators and completed custom orders and requests from customers. I remained on the cake decorator team for the rest of my time at the bakery, and continued to develop my skills as several other team members came and left. My extended time in this position allowed me to practice my skillset in a variety of tasks from decorating cakes, cupcakes, cake pops, cookies, and several other desserts. As part of this position, I visited wedding fairs to promote the business and was trusted with leadership positions while still being a high school student. This role was extremely collaborative, as the small group of us decorators (usually no more than 4 total) balanced the workload of completing custom orders while also maintaining stock of desserts for the retail storefront. This position undoubtedly plays a large role in my ability to work with others and has fostered my appreciation for collaboration.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

I was initially hired as a retail salesperson to sell products in the storefront to customers. I worked amongst a team to sell products to customers and adapted to the long lines that would occur during weekend hours. This position allowed me to learn how to use a traditional cash register and practice using mathematical skills to determine prices, before the company upgraded to using electronic sales systems. A large part of this job was the use of memorization of what's in products, how much they cost, and adding up these costs to reach a customer's total. This position regularly involved working with coworkers to assign roles amongst ourselves for each member to keep the flow of foot traffic moving efficiently. With my prior experience and knowledge of pastries and desserts, I became the retail salesperson who was most comfortable and excited to take customer's cake orders before becoming a decorator myself at a later date. This prior knowledge allowed me to do my job in retail even more successfully.I often worked the opening shift, which entailed making sure the storefront was clean, fully stocked, and good to go before customers arrived early in the morning. When working closing shifts, evaluating stock of remaining product for management happened daily on top of the regular cleaning procedures.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

While I was in 8th grade, I started my own baking business in which I make a variety of custom sweets (cakes, cookies, cupcakes, cake pops, etc.) for friends, teachers, neighbors, and other community members. I ran this business out of my home with the help of my mom. This endeavor immensely grew my leadership capabilities and a confidence in myself. I promoted my orders via my personal social media page on Instagram. I worked on orders most every weekend during school and consistently throughout summers. As my work began to improve through gaining experience I earned opportunities to bake for several large birthday parties and even some weddings. These large orders required lots of planning and often required math to figure out how much of each recipe I'd need to use and the time it'd take to complete. As I grew more serious of this endeavor, I had a logo made and purchased merchandise to give away with orders to promote my business. I also developed a system to figure out what to charge for each of the products while also factoring in time required to complete. I used invoices to bill customers and developed a professionalism through the process. I stopped this business primarily because of school demanding more attention the further on I went. I continued to take orders here and there up until about my senior year of high school.

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication, Journalism, And Related Programs

Senior Communication Major and Journalism Minor. Relevant course work includes: Reviewing the Arts: Honors, Brands and Branding, Opinion.

High School Diploma

Pre-College Summer Session (2 Week Summer Camp), Painting