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Richmond, Va, Us

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Cover the transition to renewable energy and environmental protections in Virginia by tracking legislative proposals, scouring State Corporation Commission regulatory filings and attending state agency meetings.Communicate with a diverse network of sources, including politicians, administrative personnel, environmental groups, and utility and industry advocates, to write a range of pieces on breaking, emerging and overlooked issues.Distill complex laws and technological advancements through understandable writing to engage readers and improve their understanding of how broader and abstract concepts, like climate change, impact their everyday life.Write daily stories to meet publication deadlines while crafting long-form pieces to provide deeper context on statewide issues and being active on social media to drive interest to our publication.

Strasburg

Write pieces on session activity, legislative issues and candidate profiles involving local state delegation comprised by the current speaker of the house, house Republican whip and co-chair of the state Senate Republican Caucus.Maintain relationships with two sheriff’s offices, five police departments and two county fire and rescue departments to write feature stories on changing staffing, equipment, and law enforcement and fire and rescue efforts, while also covering the latest arrests and breaking news events.Document council action and inaction for Town of Strasburg through regular meeting coverage and articles on public initiatives, including town repairs, technology upgrades, staffing changes and events.

New Britain, Connecticut, United States

Package several differing kielbasa products and hot dog styles into vacuum sealed bags or boxes for grocery store and restaurant sales throughout the state.Coordinate with management and staff inventory needs and packaging priorities while preparing product deliveries.Accept shipments of various supplies and ingredients, and assist in all other operations of factory.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Met daily deadline for print and web editions writing stories on and taking pictures of crime and breaking news events, such as fires and car accidents, throughout New Britain and surrounding towns.Attended court appearances and interacted with court officials daily at New Britain courthouse and courthouses around the state to write stories on criminal and civil judicial proceedings.Identify trends in crime and other breaking events, while building relationships with community insiders and using Freedom of Information Act requests to write more insightful, enterprising pieces impacting the area.Consistently used Twitter and published stories to the web throughout the day as news happens to constantly keep readers informed, and generate internet traffic.Trained and provided guidance for new writers on assignment angles, source selection and content management systems and assist with general assignment stories on government, education and business topics.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Covered the town of Berlin, a rural-like town of about 20,000 people across approximately 26 square miles, for government, education, business, art and human interest stories.Covered elections with candidate profiles and live voting results; attended board and commission meetings; developed sources within town to maintain insight and pulse of residents’ beliefs and questions.Provided enterprise pieces, and additional support for crime, government, education, business and arts beats for New Britain, five other coverage towns and advertorial pieces.Laid out local section of four to eight pages up to three days a week, including weekends; attended editorial budget meetings; posted stories to the web; and coordinated last minute advertisements with production.Trained and provided guidance for copy editors on layout, content management systems, story priorities and deadlines.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Split role of general assignment reporting for one to four days of a work week and copy editing for one to three days of the week

Arlington, Va

Increased social media presence nearly 50 percent to 50.7K members by managing organization’s accounts across several platforms.Increased reader time spent on organization’s blog by 148 percent through management of editorial process.Contributed to redesign and maintenance of a 50-plus page WordPress website with over 160,000 monthly unique pageviews, including a state map page of legislative issues, and coordination with marketing consultants.Reported on weekly, monthly and annual social media metrics while helping account for roughly $3 million budget for communications and educational departments.Mentored five staff members (two cross-department).Responsibility.org blog on Halloween college drinking awareness, October 2015: http://responsibility.org/blog/for-ncaaw-remember-parents-youre-not-done-yet-2/Responsibility.org National Advisory Board announcement blog, March 2015: http://responsibility.org/uncategorized/%E2%80%98ask-doctor-g%E2%80%99-joins-responsibility-org-national-advisory-board/Responsibility.org "In the News" updates, June 2014 to June 2016: http://responsibility.org/category/in-the-news/

University Of Hartford

Oversaw all aspects of 8-12 page student-run, weekly newspaper, overseeing work of section editors, including the managing, News, Campus Life & Culture (Entertainment) and Sports editors; business manager, art director, copy chief, IT director and distribution manager.Conducted two weekly editorial board meetings to determine size, format and organization of weekly paper, while reviewing, criticizing and improving story content of print publications and online material.Functioned as business manager, tracking income and expenses; maintaining revenue stream; meeting agreed budget quota; and seeking out and attaining advertisements from local business for publication.Wrote weekly op-eds on national, regional and university affairs; designed front page articles, pictures and graphics using Adobe InDesign and Photoshop; managed Twitter and Facebook accounts; and supplied other content as needed for both print and online versions.

285 Broad St, Hartford, Ct (860) 525-2525 ‎

Assisted in completing daily agate by taking local high school scores over the phone, researchingarea college scores and copy editing.Covered local high school football game and local high school field hockey playoff game withoutany experience covering such sports and at such a level prior.

Central London, Uk

While studying abroad, wrote blog posts outlining Team GB and women's boxing success after 2012 Olympics on boxingfancast.com, and services offered by Snack Media relating to social media trends.Researched multinational-based trading desks of top media, marketing and advertising conglomerates, in addition to Real Time Bidding (RTB) and Demand Side Platform (DSP) agencies' personnel, philosophy and U.K. contact information.Boxingfancast.com blog, August 2012: http://snacksports.com/sponsored-post-you-cant-stop-them-now/

Bachelor Of Arts, Communication; Media & Journalism

Activities and Societies: The Informer, Hawks Sports Television, Lambda Pi Eta, Theta Chi Fraternity

Education record

Activities and Societies: Choir, Cross Country, Basketball, Lacrosse, French Club6500 Quander Rd Alexandria, VA 22307 (703) 718-2500