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Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Developed exhibit content for a new museum about words and language in collaboration with exhibit design firm and museum founder, from initial development stage through media production and user acceptance testing• Project managed the development of content for hundreds of exhibit elements, including freelancer contract negotiations, weekly progress meetings, presentations to the museum founder, and final approval processes• Copy edited and proofread all content for all exhibits at every stage of production • Oversaw the licensing of assets within the exhibits and developed and maintained an asset licensing database for all licensed assets• Built new auxiliary exhibits within the museum Content Management System and implemented updates to existing exhibits• Managed new mission-related initiatives, including developing proposals, providing cost/benefit analyses, overseeing contract management, and working closely with the founder to launch new projects• Developed and maintained processes for collecting available exhibit data points to track visitor engagement within the exhibits

• Copy edited transcriptions for episodes of a twice-monthly podcast, formatting for both YouTube (time-stamped SRT file) and Tumblr (HTML)

Kununurra, Western Australia

• Supervised indigenous workers in an endangered language revitalization center, including recording and editing radio scripts, drafting book texts, aiding with lesson preparation, and further documenting Miriwoong (as six-month special intern)• Edited and designed two editions of a print dictionary and several educational storybooks in the Miriwoong language, and organized the printing of same

Greater New York City Area

• Copy edited 5-10 articles per 6-hour shift for an online news outlet, correcting for grammar, clarity of writing, and compliance to AP and house style; turnaround typically within 15 minutes per 500 words• Fact-checked articles, made changes for tone and audience-appropriate language, confirmed spelling of names, titles, hyperlinks, and credit lines• Advised on headlines, teasers, ledes, and SEO keywords

Greater New York City Area

Providing thorough and efficient copy editing, fact-checking and proofreading services to a variety of clients.

Greater New York City Area

Fast-paced work copy editing and fact-checking news articles for an online media outlet.

New York, Ny

• Acted as manager of royalties, contracts, foreign rights, and permissions for more than twenty clients, responsible for analyzing payments by publishing houses, negotiating contracts, collecting permissions fees, maintaining relationships with foreign co-agents, publishing eBooks, and creating and maintaining Facebook Fan Pages for all agency authors (see more detail below)• Represented three clients' work to publishers (see: ICARUS DOWN by James Bow, published 2016 by Scholastic Canada), edited manuscripts, reviewed queries and manuscripts, attended writers’ conferences• Supervised several agency assistants and interns in day-to-day agency business and the digitization of agency filesRoyalties Manager: reviewed royalty statements as they came in, maintained database of royalties, analyzed sales for popular titles, chased late payments or other discrepancies Foreign Rights Manager: updated co-agents on current properties, negotiated offers from foreign publishers, maintained database and chased paymentsContracts Manager: negotiated contractual language with publishers, oversaw the execution of agreements Permissions Manager: fielded permissions requests and negotiate fees, followed up on agreements and payments Digital Rights Manager: oversaw the publication of backlist titles in ebook and audio, ran Facebook Fan Pages, and advised authors on social media output

Master'S Degree, Language Documentation And Description, Merit

Activities and Societies: SOAS Sylheti Project Language Support and Revitalization pathway. Dissertation: Publishing in North American.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics