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Santa Clarita, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Find your story. Energize your prose. Develop your ideas. As a developmental-writing coach, I'll work one-on-one with you to find, clarify and strengthen your voice, diction, focus and narrative cohesion for both fiction and non-fiction work, using positive-psychology coaching. Plus, you'll get individual, professional evaluations and critiques. Content Development Solutions: Offering direct, personalized attention for all your creative needs from copy writing to researching to event planning and facilitation. I provide integrated and comprehensive media services, such as complete webinar, seminar and blog content—all with a polished, professional finish. Your growing business deserves customized, responsive, creative work. Additional services include press releases, strategic social-media campaigns and training and workshop facilitation for individuals and groups. My intuitive, adaptive approach to marketing, combined with individualized attention produces expert original content for blogs, websites and brochures, allowing your staff to concentrate on their priorities while ensuring the best possible media quality. I'll save you time and money because you get exactly what you need, when you need it. Specializing in market research, demographic analysis, psycho-profiling and engaging presentations, I develop content to your specifications, using a collaborative process, which puts you in control. Gain the advantage of my visual arts and art history education that fully complement San Francisco's tech industry’s cosmopolitan aesthetics. Integrate your business goals into a dynamic and beautiful finished product. By balancing compelling content with strong visuals, I'll produce refreshing compositions with sound intellectual components to meet every aspect of your business’s creative needs, all with care to branding and competitive results.

San Francisco Bay Area

This was a great job performing the duties of an Information Architect and Curator for Facebook's open-sourced platforms, including inventory, mapping, organizing and structuring complex data across various departments. Plus, it involved technical writing, editing and cleaning/rewriting HTML code to create high-quality industry-standard procedures, Wikis and end-user training documents for several managers in various program areas.

Fremont, California

Self-motivated, adaptive and responsive technical writer, working closely with electrical and mechanical engineers to produce high-quality industry-standard elegant and clear field documents in a high-paced collaborative environment.

San Francisco Bay Area

Creating content for Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network (PLAN) was an opportunity to connect with and contribute to the work of these wonderful community organizers, parents and educators collaborating to improve educational outcomes for San Francisco Bay Area youth. Content development for the project featured site visits, observation, research and meeting with the director and staff to understand the organization’s needs and expansion plans. By engaging and listening to the different members participating in their work, I produced multiple documents that reflected their ongoing community-organizing projects and the goals and services provided by the Transformative Capacity Building program. Consulting Services: • Observe Bay Area PLAN employees, parents and school staff during meetings and trainings in order to assess and accurately articulate program perimeters and services • Project information gathering through individual PLAN staff and community-member interviews • Development of new program content, including brochure language, various internal documents and website language aligned to the statewide education mandates • All work generated on a collaborative-revision model

Greater New Orleans Area

Social-media manager, writer and blogger for Mindful Peacebuilding's Roots Retreat 2016 to New Orleans and other areas in the Deep South.

San Francisco Bay Area

Content Development Consultant specializing in strong, elegant, efficient tech-savvy writing that is engaging, immediate and versatile across platforms, including blogs, website, social-media sites, presentations and internal and external documents. Coaching services include content refinement with attention to markets and aesthetics, using integration of images, tone and text for optimum audience impact. Visual art curating matches written content to original, repurposed, brand-specific and synthesized visuals across content areas. Strategic planning featuring listening and innovation coaching sessions to establish, condense and distill the best goals and actions for social-media and marketing campaigns. All this happens while using a personalized client-specific approach to content development that prioritizes listening, reading and research to maximize business expansion and growth. Consulting Services: Writing, coaching and content development for live presentations PowerPoint content development, including graphics and prose for live webinarsCoach team members for presentations

San Francisco Bay Area

Work consistently with underserved populations to educate and impart passion for literacy skills, active and careful reading and self-expression in varying forms through written composition; serving students at a institutional level by advocating and forwarding a progressive student-centered agenda around curriculum, policy and funding; mentoring and coaching students in the academy; extensive professional development in tutoring and engaged pedagogy; Metro Academy Instructor and peer trainer.

San Francisco Bay Area

Main event planner and program coordinator for program participants, including student and mentor meetings, skills and resource training, formal social functions and multi-day retreats for small and large groups; mentoring and student advocacy. Researched and wrote a comprehensive program and resource manual for scholarship recipients; facilitated and scheduled all board meetings; managed a large database of student records, payments and reporting system for the board, foundation and funders; problem solve student inquiries with perspective educational institutions.

Berkeley, California

Managed and supervised staff at the main tutoring lab on campus; trained new peer tutors; taught and developed curriculum for various levels of English sequence; participated in statewide assessment of student reading and writing skills; designed basic-skills courses combining literacy, computer and work-life training for re-entry adult students.

San Francisco Bay Area

Bachelor Of Education (B.Ed.), Human Development And Family Studies, General

Mos

Master'S Degree, Mfa English, Emphasis In Fiction

Liberal Arts And Sciences, General Studies And Humanities

Activities and Societies: Associated Students Council Officer