Erin Rook Email & Phone Number

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

• Support individuals and organizations in advancing social justice through strategic consultation, training facilitation, and content creation.• Provide guidance for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) plans and initiatives.

Bend, Oregon, United States

• Supported organizations in advancing equity and social justice through an anti-racist and intersectional lens, with clients including including government, environmental nonprofits, health care systems, social service providers, and national consumer brands.• Provided facilitation and consulting services including: assessment, outreach and engagement, planning, policy change, and ongoing learning. • Designed training curricula on a wide range of equity-related topics in collaboration with partners and consultants with diverse lived experiences.

Bend, Oregon Area

• Supported the branch campus of a state land-grant university in advancing equity and social justice through engagement with students, staff, faculty, and community.• Developed and supported strategic plans for equity and social justice at the university, campus, and department level, incorporating feedback from diverse stakeholders.• Facilitated the development of equity and social justice initiatives that are aligned with the university and campus strategic goals and values. • Gathered and analyzed equity-related data through institutional records, climate surveys, and other equity assessments to inform next steps and future plans.• Provided opportunities for students, staff, and faculty to develop cultural competencies, through individual and cohort-based learning, both in-person and remotely.• Developed strategies for recruiting and retaining students, faculty, and staff from marginalized and underrepresented groups.• Led efforts to prevent and respond to campus bias incidents and served as a member of the university’s Bias Response Team.• Provided regular updates to leadership on progress toward equity and social justice goals and emerging concerns.• Chaired the OSU-Cascades Diversity Council; served as the Cascades representative to university-wide groups including the Faculty Senate Diversity Council and the President’s and Provost’s Leadership Council on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice.• Developed and maintained collaborative relationships with community partners engaged in equity and social justice and/or serving marginalized communities.

Bend, Oregon, United States

• Facilitated monthly meetings of LGBTQ+ School Success Workgroup for an educational nonprofit affiliated with the High Desert Education Services District.• Met with Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) advisers, educators, administrators, and advocates across Central Oregon to identify challenges and opportunities.

Bend, Oregon Area

• Wrote fundraising appeals, newsletters, press releases, and annual reports; designed and delivered public presentations, tours, and information sessions; and awareness events. • Facilitated staff and volunteer trainings on topics including providing culturally competent services to BIPOC and LGBTQ+ survivors of intimate violence.• Established a Gender Inclusion Committee to advocate for more equitable and inclusive services for survivors of all genders, through assessment, dialogue, and education. • Established Central Oregon Men Against Violence and facilitated conversations with men about the causes and prevention of intimate violence.• Facilitated trainings and webinars on gender inclusion and serving transgender survivors for the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence (OCADSV).• Served on the organization’s equity and social justice committee; supported increased language access for Spanish-speaking survivors and development of an equity statement.

• Wrote and edited national LGBTQIA+ news, entertainment, and opinion pieces, with a focus on people of color, transgender and nonbinary people, and other marginalized groups for LGBTQNation.com.

Bend, Oregon Area

• Managed content and contributors to Bend’s weekly newspaper; edited print and online content; wrote news, editorials, and features; managed social media; and coordinated reader surveys.

Bend, Oregon Area

Bend, Or

• Copyedited weekly newspaper; covered City Council meetings; wrote news and feature articles.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Recruited, trained, and managed a team bloggers. • Wrote, edited, and promoted online content including blog and social media postings. • Engaged with readers via Facebook, Twitter, and PQMonthly.com; facilitated reader contests. • Wrote breaking and in-depth news, features, profiles, and a monthly column.• Helped guide vision of the publication as a founding staff writer and editorial board member.• Redesigned the website; provided technical support.

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Blogged three times a day at BlogOut, covering breaking stories and news of interest to the queer community.• Reported on news, arts and culture.• Copyedited and managed social media accounts.

• Blogged about LGBTQ events and issues; photographed local events.

• Wrote and produced online-only content including dining e-newsletter sent to more than 300,000 online subscribers and previews of the Boston Independent Film Festival and other local events.

• Copyedited staff-written and Associated Press articles using Gazette and AP styles.• Designed and produced six to eight news, business and lifestyle pages daily.• Uploaded online content daily.

• Traveled to South Africa to write about the experiences of gays and lesbians in the young democracy.

• Worked with a student studio to create press materials for The American Anti-Slavery Group.• Wrote and designed press release, fact sheet, and PowerPoint presentation to support speakers bureau.

• Trained and managed a staff of 20+ writers and editors at a weekly college newspaper.• Wrote editorials; reported on campus and local news; copyedited articles; designed pages; created annual budget.

• Proofread Second Critical Edition of Mark Twain’s Pudd’n'head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins (W.W. Norton & Co., 2005) using page proofs, galley proofs, and original manuscripts.

• Wrote for all sections of a three-times-weekly community newspaper; including in-depth coverage of a hostage situation.

• Wrote editorials; reported on campus and local news; copyedited articles; designed A&E and Opinion pages; created annual budget.

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Public Health

Ba, Communications

Activities and Societies: The Simmons Voice (student newspaper), Simmons College Strategic Planning Committee