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My articles about music and culture have appeared online in Rolling Stone, SPIN, Pitchfork, Vice, Remezcla, and Paste, and in print in No Depression, the Village Voice, and many other places.Career highlights include live blogging the Latin GRAMMYs, writing a SPIN cover story on Venezuelan Latin Grammy winners La Vida Boheme, covering Mexico City's.

Los Angeles, California, US

I provide music curation, digital content, copywriting and other creative services for Third Bridge clients, including Spotify, Soundcloud, Chartmetric, Sonos and many others.

San Bruno, CA, US

• Developed, updated and optimized YouTube Music's indie and alternative playlists leading to consistent growth and increased user engagement across the indie and alternative programming corpus
• Identified gaps in YouTube Music's indie and alternative playlist ecosystem. Created and launched several successful playlists for varied use cases to fill those gaps
• Rebranded and relaunched YouTube Music's flagship indie music playlist, Conditions Underground, leading to significant month-over-month increases in listeners and all other metrics
• Regularly created comprehensive editorial features highlighting important album releases and music events

• Developed multi-platform digital strategy for international music discovery project sponsored by German public radio (ARD)
• Recruited and managed a constantly growing 200-member contributor community of music experts from across six continents, who shared their favorite songs with us on a weekly basis
• Edited and shared song recommendations from contributors across our social media platforms and in articles for ARD websites, as well as in Soundfriend's newsletters and Spotify playlists
• Programmed Soundfriend's SXSW showcase
• Fostered community among Soundfriend contributors through events, meetups and initiatives such as our Facebook group.

New York, NY, US

• Planned and executed digital strategy for MTV Iggy, MTV's international music and pop culture website, leading to significant year-over-year growth in site traffic, social media following and global brand recognition
• Led in-house editorial team, including interns and freelance writers, photographers and filmmakers tell groundbreaking multi-media stories about music and culture around the world
• Edited stories at all levels, from conception to final proofread, optimizing for SEO
• Coordinated with the music programming department to acquire and plan video across diverse genres
• Contributed to special projects, such as the Rebel Music television series and brand partnerships

New York, NY, US

Wrote 4-8 stories a day for MTViggy.com, including features, reviews and news items on international music and pop culture

Reported on politics, education, business, and the arts for two weekly newspapers in Las Vegas

• Edited entertainment listings section for alternative weekly newspaper
• Contributed features on music and culture in Las Vegas and wrote weekly column of local music news
• Assigned and edited weekly event pick blurbs