Casey Cora Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago

Debuting June 2019, Impact Culinary Training is an immersive culinary job readiness program open to Chicago young adults ages 16-24. Founded by Chef Rick Bayless with enthusiastic support of Chicago’s chef community, the program includes eight weeks of professional instruction followed by four-week paid internships at some of Chicago’s best restaurants..

Chicago, IL

• I'm the Media Director for Chef Rick Bayless and the world-class restaurants Frontera restaurant group in Chicago. What does that mean? A whole lot on any given day. At a glance:
• Media relations: pitching and placing stories everywhere from community weeklies to the cover of Food & Wine magazine.
• Advise and draft extensive briefings, talking points and speeches. Rigorous preparation for national and local media interviews, award ceremonies and high-profile appearances.
• Director of Content. Responsible for creative direction, content strategy and execution of social media and newsletter accounts for Rick Bayless and four distinct restaurants (totaling an audience of 2+ million).
• Social Impact: As director of the nonprofit Frontera Farmer Foundation, I’ve modernized our entire fundraising and grant-giving cycle, leading to significant increases in giving to Midwest family farms. As the project.
• Television Production: Producer and Script Supervisor for Seasons 11 & 12 of the highly acclaimed, Emmy-nominated cooking show “Mexico: One Plate at a Time” and led the show’s social media promotion and online.

The Frontera Farmer Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, is committed to promoting small, sustainable farms serving the Chicago area by providing them with capital development grants. The Foundation envisions a year-round interchange between sustainable farmers and consumers, including farmers’ market patrons and chefs, in which seasonal local.

Chicago, IL

Producing daily news coverage of the Bridgeport, McKinley Park and Chinatown neighborhoods in the world's greatest city. Written stories. Social Media. Photography. Occasional videography. Radio, too.

Oak Park, Ill.

Please note: A website glitch on Patch.com sites has resulted in the loss of some text in the articles linked below. Responsibilities include assigning, reporting and editing daily news stories, commissioning story art, soliciting user-generated content, engaging and managing communities online and in person, creating multimedia packages, curating content.

Municipal beat reporter for Oak Lawn, a village of 60,000 on Chicago’s southwest side. Founder of the On the Lawn news blog, evangelist for online journalism and community outreach, and a sometimes-contributor to the newspaper’s “Not So Mighty Dollar” blog.

Produced the newspaper’s breaking news blog; responsibilities on any given day included police reporting, news photography and video, crafting Web headlines and coordinating breaking news coverage across multiple bureaus. Also covered the evening shift as a police reporter and general assignment writer in the newspaper’s flagship newsroom in St. Petersburg.

Ma, Journalism And Media Studies

Activities and Societies: Neighborhood News BureauTaught Introduction to Mass Media and Media Ethics courses to 40-plus undergraduates.

Ba, Journalism