Erin Eisele Email & Phone Number

Aiken, Sc, Us

Aiken, Sc, Us

Greater Augusta Area

Aiken, South Carolina, United States

Co-creator of downtown Aiken's first destination bottle shop, offering a re-imagined retail wine shopping experience at an historic property. Develop on-and-off premise, collaborative events to build brand awareness, growth and community. Develop retail merchandising strategies to engage customers. Ambassador of today's most creative and impactful culinary and wine brands.

Oversee outreach efforts of one of the southeast’s largest accredited land trusts by creating and managing all print and electronic communications, including websites, social media, newsletters, e‐blasts, brochures, and advertising. Responsible for supporting general fundraising efforts, and capital campaigns by writing donor‐centric communications and engaging stories about the importance of local land and water conservation in central SC. Oversee, coordinate and plan signature special events, managing vendors, securing sponsorships and developing relationships with potential sponsors.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Manage, execute and evaluate multi-pronged communications strategy to promote South Carolina's first urban farm, its organic products and agritourism initiatives to target audiences. • Coordinate creative direction and design of marketing collateral. • Create engaging digital content for e-newsletter, social media applications, blog and campaigns, driving sales and customer growth.• Write media releases, maintain press lists, and actively pitch members of the press to secure local, regional and national coverage. • Work alongside event partner to promote on-farm events, dinners and festivals.• Managed the complete redesign and launch of the company's website. • Spearheaded school education efforts, including the creation of a farm to fork summer camp program for kids, a sold-out program 2 years in a row.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Responsible for overall financial performance, staffing, retail merchandising and culinary coordination of high-volume gourmet kitchen store and culinary school.• Collaborated with SC specialty food producers, local chefs and artisans to develop cooking classes and demos using SC grown products.• Led team of seven employees in all operations including sales, customer service, kitchen and office functions.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

• Provided on-the-ground coordination, research, and program development for Cook It Raw's 6th edition, a celebration of Lowcountry foodways with an international roster of chefs.• Managed event planning and logistics for "BBQ Perspectives," the first-ever Cook It Raw public event in collaboration with Food Day USA and GrowFood Carolina.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Designed and implemented survey for local farmers, identifying barriers to growing food in the Midlands region, to inform state food policy. • Cultivated internal and external stakeholders for local food and farming summits to address barriers and propose solutions. • Planned and managed different community meetings, public forums and outreach events. • Assisted in production and script writing of a documentary project, Agri+Culture , to highlight the farm-to-fork movement in SC.

Devise targeted strategies to publicize the Hirshhorn Museum’s overall mission, its educational content, initiatives and programs in order to enhance the Hirshhorn’s reputation, increase attendance, attract and educate new audiences and support fundraising.

Provided key public relations and marketing support for Communications Director and provided scheduling assistance for the Deputy Director of Communications and Marketing.

Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Connected multi-cultural roster of artists with area schools for special performances related to curriculum.

Coordinated artist residencies in Spartanburg County schools via a national platform called "The Muse Machine," a comprehensive performing and visual arts education delivery system for secondary students.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Food Culture And Communications

Activities and Societies: Magna Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Arts, Arts/Non-Profit Management

Master'S Degree, Food Culture And Communications, Magna Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management