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Gainesville, Fl, Us

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Directly advising the Alligator's general manager and board of directors via exploring avenues for sustaining donorship and revenue generation in a number of areas including membership, major gifts, recurring giving, grants, and events among others • Created and currently overseeing the Alligator's membership program, designed to solicit monthly giving and foster the Alligator's greater donor network, with content creation, email marketing, and other support• Oversaw the Alligator's successful application to Press Forward's Open Call on Local Coverage Gaps, awarding the newsroom $100,000 in grant funding for general operating support over two years

Gainesville, Florida, United States

Gainesville, Florida, United States

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Writing, producing and coordinating in-house content for the Consortium’s website, X and LinkedIn accounts• Arranging, conducting and coordinating interviews with internal and external journalism faculty and artificial intelligence and media industry professionals• Conducting qualitative and quantitative research on the media industry and its funding efforts for special projects, notably as the lead reporter for the project “Student Journalists: Fueling Local News,” examining collaboration opportunities in college journalism in conjunction with the Press Forward initiative and backed by the Knight Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation• Assisting with short and long-term project planning and reporting efforts in conjunction with the Consortium’s managing director• Serving as lead web designer reimagining content from the College’s online wire service and as lead brand strategist in accordance with UF and CJC branding guidelines

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Collaborated with coaching and office staff to assess and fulfill specific team equipment requirements for practices, competitions, and travel• Provided and sett up proper equipment for practice drills and competitions and aiding coaching staff in practice to ensure smooth operation• Communicated with visiting staff, building coordinators and other athletic department personnel for match day preparation and post-match duties• Assisted team staff during team travel with logistical and on-court duties• Trained junior team members and facilitated succession plans for managerial staff

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

• Covered metro Louisville and Southern Indiana on deadline and garnered more than 75 bylines over the summer covering breaking and trending news, crime, local government, weather, sports, business, culture and other topics• Ranked in the top five reporters on staff in total pageviews over the course of the internship• Served on the staff’s Table Stakes collective, a Knight Foundation and Lenfest Institute-backed initiative to identify means of sustainability for local journalism • Created original graphics and photography that appeared in print and online to accompany written pieces

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Covered Florida high school sports for a greater Gainesville audience• Wrote game stories and live Tweeting games and recruiting news• Interviewed coaches and players for quotes to use in recaps and social media captions

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

• Executed creative control and scheduling of all social media content on main Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube handles via HootSuite scheduling platform in accordance with official school branding guidelines• Used Canva graphic design platform for creation of original graphics and presentations for school events• Contributed to school website upkeep, redesign and future planning• Created original graphic design projects for print advertisement in newspapers, mailers, etc.• Served as primary on-campus photographer for school events

Gainesville Metropolitan Area

• Covered north central Florida on general assignment, most notably in education and enterprise, in conjunction with UF’s Multimedia Reporting course• Wrote breaking news, profiles, human interest pieces and corresponding social media captions• Created multimedia elements in NPR-style audio wraps, video content, source-narrated audio and data visualizations to accent written pieces and photography

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Covered University of Florida sports, specifically as a beat reporter for Gators women’s basketball and Gators softball, for a Gainesville audience• Wrote game stories, beat breaking news, feature stories on deadlines, social media captions, etc.• Live Tweeted, games, press conferences, weekly awards, injury reports, weekly poll outcomes, recruiting news, statistics, schedule updates, etc.• Participated in post-game press conferences with coaches, players for usable quotes in postgame stories, social captions, etc.

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Covered University of Florida sports, high school sports, NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL, college sports, etc. for a Central Florida audience• Wrote and recorded trending sports updates for on-air radio coverage• Conducted pregame/postgame interviews with coaches, players for usable quotes in postgame stories• Recorded in-game statistics to be used in game recaps• Live Tweeted games, promoted recruiting announcements from local schools• Wrote postgame writeups, breaking news, etc.

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

• Contributed to Features, Entertainment, Sports, Life, Weekend sections for a Kentuckiana audience• Hosted phone interviews before upcoming concerts, shows to write preview features• Transcribed interviews to question and answer articles• Worked with newspaper social media in Hometown Rising music festival coverage

Master Of Arts - Ma, Mass Communication, Research And Theory (Thesis)

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Journalism

Minor: Communication Studies

Certificate, Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals And Applications, Artificial Intelligence

Certificate, Sport Management

High School Diploma, Undergrad

Activities and Societies: Cougars for Christ, Academic Team, Y-Club, National Honor Society, Math Team, Student Council: Executive.