Danielle Levitan Email & Phone Number

Silver Spring, Md, Us

Write and publish essays, articles, and newsletters and lead community engagement activities related to coaching and wellness with a focus on helping people navigate life and career transitions. Visit https://daniellelevitan.substack.com/.Coach clients on personal and professional issues that matter to them, helping them to gain clarity, live intentionally, and achieve their goals.

Conducted interviews, research, wrote, and edited content for professional and lay audiences about the college's online education, including behavioral health, sleep science and technology, and various business programs. Collaborated with subject matter experts, creative teams, and executive leadership, defining objectives and managing projects on time and within budget. Successfully engaged and educated target audiences while ensuring that the client’s mission and values were clear and consistent across all materials.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Strategically executed multimedia communications and marketing campaigns for constituents in the health care sector as well as the general public, collaborating and supervising internal and external cross-functional teams, writing and editing content for a variety of media channels, and increasing awareness and engagement around key issues such as workforce, COVID-19 management and recovery efforts, federal/state updates and regulations, and continuing education. • Provided editorial supervision across departments, ensuring consistency of messaging and branding for a variety of content including video, print and digital publications, websites, and, social media. Established and enforced internal style guide. • Established relationships and developed co-branded content with partner companies, vendors, and subject matter experts.• Produced and published educational resources and curriculums for internal and external audiences.

Provided creative storytelling expertise and editorial support to a variety of clients.• Created content for interactive children’s subscription magazine, TIME for Kids.• Designed gameplay and wrote content, scripts, and dialog for interactive toy, Leapfrog’s Leapster.• Edited design documents, technical documents, annual reports, and regulatory briefs for clients such as the Council on Foundations.

Emoryville, Ca

Successfully managed production of content for award-winning industry-recognized educational toys, including the company’s flagship products, the LeapPad and the LeapPad Pro, leading projects from ideation to completion.• Oversaw budgets, schedules, and deliverables of multiple, simultaneous projects under very tight deadlines and challenging demands of the consumer toy market. • Wrote storylines, scripts, character dialogue, and interactivity. Wrote concept and design documents and made product pitches. • Supervised and collaborated with creative internal and external teams of artists, engineers, sound designers, writers, actors, and content experts.

Berkely, Ca

Under a grant from the National Science Foundation, produced and designed an interactive, educational program that was used in museums, planetariums, and schools to teach introductory astronomy. • Produced and directed live action and animated videos. Wrote scripts, storylines, dialog, and activities. Designed gameplay, navigation, and interactivity to meet strategically designed goals.• Completed project on-time and within budget while collaborating with scientists and content experts to develop curriculum and supervising animators, engineers, sound designers, actors, and content experts.

Berkely, Ca

Created award-winning edutainment software that showed at E3 Expo and won several CODiEs and other toy industry awards, leading projects from concept through design to completion, and collaboratively directing teams of animators, writers, engineers, sound designers, actors, and content experts to make consumer deadlines and get products on store shelves in time for Christmas.• Produced multimedia content that successfully engaged, entertained, and taught a wide variety of topics including physics, math, grammar, scriptwriting, and social skills. Conducted focus groups and QA testing to ensure products met their educational and entertainment goals. • Wrote and edited content and scripts, designed gameplay, navigation and interactivity.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Wrote, directed, and produced award-winning documentaries, corporate videos, and fictional films and videos that appeared in film festivals and on television.• Won Best Children’s Film at SXSW Film Fest for the short fiction film A Winter Waltz.• Developed a series of documentaries for the American Council on Education about international women leaders and the leadership training program that supported them.• Wrote, produced, and directed the documentary HerStory about three generations of women in a single family which aired on cable television in the Washington, D.C. area and in Florida for several years. Supported by a grant from the University of MD.

Certification

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Radio, Television, Film

Activities and Societies: Worked at UMD Flagship television station. Won grant from the Honor's College to complete a documentary.

Certificate, Scriptwriting And Film Production

Courses In Film Production, Cinematography, Directing

Biopsychology, Cultural Anthropology

Activities and Societies: Varsity Women's Swim Team 1987-89(Captain 1988-89); Writer for the Oberlin Review 1987-1990; Guest writer.