Chelsey B. Coombs Email & Phone Number

New York City Metropolitan Area

New York, United States

Wonderstruct is a marketing and creative firm specializing in construction and infrastructure. I handle multiple clients’ social media needs, from copy to graphics to analytics. I have developed individual social media strategies for a wide variety of clients, increasing their LinkedIn followers between 8 to 17% and Instagram followers between 3 to 9% in.

New York City Metropolitan Area

I was the social media editor for two brands with millions of followers on social media (one of which has been around for 151 years!), Popular Science and Futurism. I was responsible for posting on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky for both brands, as well as doing analytics and data analysis to determine what works best for each.

New York, New York

I was the engagement editor for Spectrum, the leading source of news and expert opinion on autism research. As engagement editor, I posted all of our stories to social media with creative and engaging sells, but I also prepared analytics reports, ran paid advertising campaigns on Facebook, Twitter and Google, hosted monthly webinars, planned events and.

Greater New York City Area

I created videos and crafted social strategy for a Millennial and Gen Z audience for the brand new climate-science-focused social brand, Pattrn. I produced and wrote videos on climate change’s effects on tourism, how a border wall would affect wildlife, how the poor were most affected by Puerto Rico’s blackouts after Hurricane Maria, and many more that.

Greater New York City Area

I was a social editor, producer and video strategist at VICE News. Day-to-day, I optimized copy and headlines for all of VICE News' social platforms with a distinctly VICE voice. I also wrote several articles and wrote and produced videos that received millions of views. I was in charge of running the $40,000 Facebook ad budget for the VICE News page to.

New York, New York

I helped run Rockets Are Cool's Facebook page, executing strategies to make our less-than-a-minute science videos go viral. I wrote and produced four to five videos per day, many of which received millions of views. Rockets Are Cool was a Webby Award nominee in the Social Education & Discovery (Video) category in 2017.

Greater New York City Area

As a contributor at Techlicious, I wrote dozens of how-to articles, as well as news articles to make technology simpler for the site's readers. For the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show, I put articles in the site's Expression Engine CMS focusing on SEO, as well as ran social media. I also ran the site's Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest pages.

At the NRDC's online magazine, I wrote short blurbs on trending environmental stories, as well as news stories and longer features.

I covered technology in all its iterations, with news pieces, feature stories and personal essays that went beyond the facts to uncover meaning within the newest tech. And I made sure to add humor, too.

I gave colleagues constructive advice on how to make their stories about the environment stronger, as well as made line edits.

I increased audience engagement for the Scienceline brand by writing multiple Twitter and Facebook posts per day with a unique voice.

I wrote stories, both news and feature pieces, on topics from the plight of the Alaskan glacier to climate change warming Canada into America’s new bread basket.

As an Apple retail store Specialist, I worked directly with customers and helped customers find a solution to their technology needs with my extensive Apple hardware and software knowledge. I transitioned to become a Family Room Specialist, where I worked directly with (sometimes disgruntled) customers, diagnosing their mobile devices’ problems and finding.

As a writer, I created articles about subjects like a student who designed a water purification system for a village in Honduras and the history of the department. As a multimedia producer, I created photographs and video for a magazine and website.

I was a Life Sciences intern at the News Bureau, a public affairs organization that provides coverage of the University of Illinois. I wrote press releases, took photographs and designed graphics that helped explain the science behind my press releases.

I conducted research on the behavior and neuroscience of honey bees; my project focuses on bee aggression. I coded videos of bee nesting behavior, conducted field work, dissected brains, performed RNA extraction and cDNA synthesis procedures, and analyzed gene expression patterns. I also worked as a science writer, writing articles based upon the lab’s.

I wrote articles for the School of MCB’s website and annual alumni magazine, as well as did multimedia work (photography, video editing and production).

I worked in Dr. Eva Pomerantz’s psychology research lab as an assistant for her Middle School Motivation Project that focused on the impact of parents on the motivation of their 7th grade students. I conducted experiments while making sure that participants were comfortable while at the laboratory.

I was an NCSA SPIN fellow in public affairs. I worked on an outreach video for middle and high school students who come to NCSA for a tour.

I conducted research on the mating behavior of grasshoppers. I also took photographs and video of the experiments. Data is currently being analyzed and a draft manuscript is complete. Expected submission date for publication is March 2013.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Science, Health And Environmental Reporting Program (Sherp)

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Molecular And Cellular Biology

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