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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Wrote reviews, commentary and articles for publications including MSNBC.com, The Onion A.V. Club, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Clarkesworld, Momentum, Spaces, Request, and City Pages. Articles covered a wide variety of subjects, with an emphasis on the arts, pop-culture, and lifestyle topics including film, music, and television criticism, as well as travel, science, environmentalism, home remodeling, and restaurants.My marketing and public-relations experience includes media-relations strategy, website and Wikipedia profile management, editing in XML and HTML, writing press releases and consumer-friendly content, producing cross-promotional CD compilations, writing and recording radio promos, and audience expansion via social networking and email newsletters. Clients included Memory Lane, Microsoft, Ticketmaster, Orbitz, and Schell's Brewery. Conformed to corporate branding and style guidelines.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Managed Twin Cities edition of The Onion's arts, entertainment, and pop-culture section, The A.V. Club. Planned and implemented comprehensive editorial coverage of local music, arts, and restaurant scenes for A.V. Club's weekly print edition and daily online city guide (twincities.avclub.com). Contributed to national coverage. Supervised editorial assistant and 10 to 15 freelance writers and interns, and managed monthly freelance budget. Wrote, edited, and compiled feature stories, interviews, reviews, listings, breaking news items, and events calendar. Copyedited local section before publication. Compiled weekly email newsletter.Produced three-volume CD compilation, "I Am In A Promising Local Band," for a cross-promotional marketing effort. Solicited music from artists, obtained copyright release forms, wrote liner notes and collaborated with graphic designer on album artwork, wrote promotional material for print and Internet advertising, and created word-of-mouth campaign via social networking. Wrote weekly radio promos highlighting editorial and marketing content and the Onion A.V. Club brand. Cross-promoted editorial and marketing content via weekly email newsletters to thousands of readers.

Wrote articles and essays for Twin Cities monthly magazine. Managed arts-calendar section, writing and editing items on film, music, theater, art, restaurants, and more. Copyedited entire issue before press.

Managed music, movies, nightlife, sports, attractions and hotels sections for Twin Cities edition of Internet city guide, working with local and national teams. Wrote and maintained hundreds of event and venue profiles, features and newsletters. Assigned and edited freelancer copy. Wrote and recorded weekly on-air morning-show segments to promote Citysearch.com content as part of partnership with Minneapolis radio station.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Writer and copyeditor for Microsoft's Internet city guide. Wrote weekly column on local music.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

On-air DJ at University of Minnesota radio stations WMMR and KUOM-AM (Radio K) 1990-92, 1994-98, and 2002-2005. Created and produced nationally syndicated radio drama series "Where Threads Come Loose," which ran on home station KUOM in 1994-1998 and 2002-2004. Wrote scripts, directed performances, and led acting ensemble including voice work and casting. Engineered and edited multitrack recording sessions, and broadcast completed serials. Designed and maintained program's official website. Wrote promotional copy including radio spots, brochures, and flyers.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Edited and wrote copy and headlines for arts, news, and opinion sections of Minneapolis daily newspaper.

Bachelor’S Degree, English

Activities and Societies: Minnesota Daily, KUOM-AM (Radio K)

Associate’S Degree, Computer Software Engineering

Graduated with honors in December 2016; 3.67 GPA. Earned Java Developer Certificate and Android Mobile Application Developer Diploma.