Elyse Andrews Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, Texas, United States

I create content about art and finding my path to a creative and fulfilling career - whatever shape that may take. I post on a variety of platforms, and my current and most active project is “Elyse’s Sabbatical”, a Substack blog where I document my time after leaving my first full time job and efforts to make a career change. Since starting in May 2020, I have grown my YouTube channel to 1,900 subscribers and 100k+ views. My most popular video recently hit 72,000 views. In it, I discuss how I use Pinterest to promote sales of my artwork on a popular print on demand website, Redbubble. On my channel I:• Script, shoot, and edit original content.• Research tags, trends, and keywords for descriptions to optimize growth and utilize information from YouTube analytics.• Design thumbnails and creates multi-channel promotional content.I also post to Instagram @elyse_draws multiple times a week, engaging with my audience through feed posts, Reels, and stories. I do more than just drawing on this account, and my followers enjoy frequent updates on my variety of hobbies: cooking, reading, birding, writing, and running.

San Antonio, Texas, United States

• Assisted in the management of clients in industries spanning from environment, sustainability, nonprofit, government, financial, technology, and medical.• Coordinated the creation of client assets directly with the creative and web team; ensured proper implementation of marketing materials with the media team.• Supported clients by organizing project flow, leading weekly status meetings, developing estimates, and tracking budget progress.

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Responsible for supporting project management activities of assigned accounts. • Ensured creative work was proofread and exercised proper quality controls on agency products before they go out to clients. • Managed agency blog and wrote original blog posts. • Developed and scheduled social media posts using Hootsuite.

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Following my graduation from Trinity University, I provided creative work for Trinity University Press as a freelance designer. This included continued promotional material, social media illustrations, and the book cover for Rambling Prose by Steven G. Kellman.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Trinity University Press is a mission-driven publisher committed to civic engagement with timely ideas facilitated by the publication of print/digital books and related media, creative and educational programs, and other activities helping us all better understand our place in a crowded world. For a year and a half, I served as the publisher's primary graphic designer for promotional material. Weekly responsibilities generally include designing social media posts and posters for upcoming events.• Animated Facebook cover videos.• Illustrated for a video promoting a new book, communicating with the author.• Built custom newsletters using Canva, Photoshop, and Mailchimp.• Designed book cover mock-ups, galleys.• Assisted at the San Antonio Book Festival and AWP 2020 Conference.

Madrid Area, Spain

In the summer of 2019, while studying abroad in Madrid, I supported Fundación Recover's mission by working with the team to provide a variety of creative and professional services. • Created illustrations for a notebook to be sent to donors.• Illustrated and designed an infographic about the organization's work in Cameroon.• Created content for social media and other communications.• Proofread annual report's content in English and Spanish.• Worked in Mail Chimp to create newsletters.• Translated the organization's website content into English.

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Designed and updated ads on a weekly basis for local businesses.• Assisted with magazine layout on production days.

San Antonio, Texas

The Esperanza Peace and Justice Center is a grassroots, community-based arts & cultural organization, built around a vision of social justice and cross-cultural understanding. In the summer of 2018, I worked full-time as an intern to support the organization's work through creative work, outreach, and administrative tasks. • Designed graphics and illustrations for flyers, logos, stickers, signs. • Produced videos and animation. • Phone banked, assisted with archival work, and updated community calendars.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Available 3 hours a week to look over Spanish essays, and an additional three hours to help students with Spanish grammar.

Austin, Tx

• Worked in Admission, Development, Communication, International Studies departments.• Design work included T-Shirts for incoming freshmen, invitation for the annual gala, social media posts.• Additional internship responsibilities included writing press releases, ordering textbooks for international students, making calendars for prospective student visits.