Gwendolyn Craig Email & Phone Number

Albany, New York Area

I cover environmental policy for the Adirondack Explorer magazine, in partnership with The Times Union of Albany. I am also a member of the Legislative Correspondents Association in Albany.

Teach group and private ice skating lessons.

Glens Falls, New York Area

I covered environmental issues and local governments. I took photos for many of my own stories. I also shot stand-alone photos for centerpieces. My stories appeared in multiple Adirondack-region newspapers as part of a collaboration effort including in The Watertown Daily Times, Olean Times Herald, Lake Placid News, The Ogdensburg Journal and The Adirondack Daily Enterprise.

Auburn, New York

I covered the Cayuga County Legislature, breaking news and the environment for The Citizen. My coverage focused on cyanobacteria blooms in Owasco Lake and the local effort to keep toxins from contaminating the drinking water. I wrote between five and 15 stories a week and sometimes took photos, too.

Wrote an article on climate change and its impact on ice-in and ice-out of Adirondack lakes.

Auburn, New York

Taught one-hour each classes for yoga and gentle yoga twice a week at the Auburn YMCA, substituted yoga classes as needed

Freelancer for upstate New York

Washington D.C. Metro Area

As part of the Digital Team I was responsible for video production and social media campaigns. I helped storyboard, film, interview subjects and edit pieces for clients. As a social media campaign manager, I set up and monitored ads for Google, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. I worked with national and international clients including the World Health Organization, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Afterschool Alliance, the Citi Foundation, PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, TB Alliance, Rights and Resources Initiative and others. I was also the web editor for the Burness website. I made sure our most current work and events were featured and managed the editorial calendar.

Syracuse, New York Area

Instructional associate for a climate change communications class focusing on research in the Florida Keys. I was the managing editor of our iBook, Key Connections. I edited pieces, made sure videos were compressed, delegated jobs, worked on the design of the product, worked on heds and deks and researched other publishing options including epub.

S.I. Newhouse School Of Public Communications

I was the graduate assistant for the NPPA's Multimedia Immersion Workshop 2013. I helped organize binders with handouts from various professional photographers, made copies and helped run logistics for the week-long event.

Syracuse, New York Area

Covered local events in the Auburn and Skaneateles area. Covered local environmental issues for longer feature pieces.

Syracuse, New York Area

Managed content for the travel blog, "Passports," and reported and wrote for the "Off Campus" section and "Green Sprouts" blog

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Scheduled appointments, answered phones, organized files, filled out financial affidavits, drafted dictated motions and letters, covered for paralegal when necessary

Wrote a story about what happens to idle farmland called, "The Afterlife of a Farm" for the Summer 2011 issue. Wrote a story about the evolution of a Connecticut state forest to be published in the Fall 2012 issue called, "Finding Mattatuck State Forest."

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Added various public opinion questions from research companies such as the Pew Research Center, NBC, CBS, AP, Gallup and others into the iPoll database, analyzed and created a write-up about trends regarding the public's view of the United States' involvement in world affairs

Storrs, Ct

One of four head coaches for the U.S. Figure Skating Association's Learn to Skate Program in Storrs

Covered various stories from Memorial Day parades to the monitoring of the invasive insect, the Emerald Ash Borer

Simsbury, Ct

Coached private lessons, choreographed programs, coached group lessons for the U.S. Figure Skating Association's Learn to Skate program

Simsbury, Connecticut

Trained at the International Skating Center of Connecticut in Simsbury under the Russian Olympic pairs team Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, competed through intermediate freestyle and passed through senior moves in the field

Master'S Degree, Magazine, Newspaper And Online Journalism

Activities and Societies: The NewshouseMy master's degree focused on environmental journalism.

Bachelor'S Degrees, English And Journalism With A Concentration In Ecology And Evolutionary Biology

Activities and Societies: Daily Campus correspondent 2009, President of UConn Figure Skating Club 2011-2012, member of UConn Hellenic.