Brent Lager Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Uncover KC strives to build a bridge between those who wish to improve their community and those who need help doing so. This mission is achieved through active volunteerism, event management, education programming and shop-for-a-cause retail, among many other ways. To learn more, visit uncoverkc.org.

500 College Hill, Liberty, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Scheduled, organized and manage all the Chamber’s events including luncheons, banquets, auctions, etc.Oversaw promotions for events, email campaigns and website content.Handled multiple social media accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Google-Plus.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Develop and direct VolunteerMark's marketing operations ranging from outbound/inbound communication, promotions, social media platforms, email campaigns and sponsorships/partnerships. Other responsibilities include sales, volunteer programming, operating and marketing NonprofitNeighbors.com and customer service.

Wrote game stories, briefs, features, profiles and columns on area high school, collegiate and pro sports like Major League Soccer’s Sporting KC and Major League Baseball’s Kansas City Royals.Photographed sport and news events as well as community events daily for front page of both sectionsRan a daily sports blog, twitter and Facebook page through Zope for the paper in addition to creating and posting photo galleries and videos on the websiteLaid out sport and news pages in Quark daily and edit both sections for AP and local style

Report and wrote on local high school sports as well as community features and profilesPhotographed sport, news and community events such as festivals, concerts and tournamentsUpdated and designed paper’s website with HTML code, Adobe GoLive and Filezilla programsUsed Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop programs to create all the ads in the paper each week including business cards, postcards, flyers and brochures for the print shopLaid out sport, news and special feature pages in InDesign and Quark programs, in addition to editing the pages for AP style

Wrote and designed press releases for non-fiction, comic strip and cook booksCreated book databases for online sales, award entries including side bars for advertisementsEdited and reviewed website in addition to media announcements and press releases

Reported and wrote blog entries on the Kansas City Wizards soccer teamSelf-edited the web sites' stories, pictures and graphs, and planned out story schedulesContacted and worked with other team websites and social networks to increase readership

Contacted potential posters within the community via phone and emailCopy-edited citizen journalism submissionsCreated detailed web postings that included pictures, music and videos

Operated five stations simultaneously, to ensure proper functioning of equipmentRecorded weather spots and created sport clips on a weekly basisProduced weekly radio shows which include St. Louis Cardinal baseball, Kansas City Chief football and University of Missouri basketball and football

Reported and wrote on local sport teams including Columbia College men’s soccer and the Universityof Missouri Swimming and Diving TeamEdited news, sports, and general interest stories along with captions and headlines for daily newspaperand online websiteWrote headlines, captions and previews for daily newspaper and website in InDesign

Masters Of Education, Journalism And English

Bachelor, Journalism

Activities and Societies: Delta Tau Delta Fraternity

Minor, Spanish