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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Pitch, produce and distribute air-ready premium national and regional editorial content to more than 1,100 CNN affiliates worldwide. Work directly with affiliate clients to provide solutions to newsroom editorial needs, including sourcing archive materials, scripts, live, breaking and topical content using CNN's newsgathering resources. Coordinate closely with team of editors, copy editors, writers and live content producers to ensure prompt, accurate and accessible content is delivered on Newsource distribution platform. Write and produce daily Advantage newsletters using the MailChimp platform.

Greater Atlanta Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Covered White House, Pentagon, State Department and Congress, focusing on a full-range of foreign and domestic news, from foreign policy to national security relevant to the Middle East and North Africa region. Produced long-form feature human-interest pieces on politics, arts, health, economics, science & technology.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Event Planning: Worked with clients to strategize, develop and execute communications planning and implementation, including audience definition, messaging, channels and evaluation, and talking points.Proposal Writing: Crafted focused outline and introductory content, including executive summary and title page, win themes an identifying client’s distinct discriminators that led to client successfully winning $360K federal small business communications support contract from the National Science Foundation.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Provided copy-editing and quality assurance analysis for paper and online-generated educational assessment reports, checking for content accuracy, language clarity, and tablet-based functionality of documents and research products in preparation for client delivery and publication.

Fairfax, Va

Supported Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 clients' growth strategies by identifying new business opportunities fitting company core capabilities, as well as gathering competitive intelligence through high-quality, in-depth comprehensive market research outlining adjacent markets, expanding pipeline coverage, customer demands and competitor behaviour.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Taught basic and advanced concepts of English writing, grammar, reading and speaking skills, utilizing the latest pedagogical methodologies, to adult ESL students from various countries.

Washington D.C.

Covered US foreign policy and international affairs. Trained, supervised and mentored employees on news-gathering techniques and copy editing.

Dulles, Virginia

Produced news copy, captions and blurbs for promos and news stories as well as maintain the site’s local and international news webpages for + 1 million readers per week.

Arlington, Virginia

Published and managed breaking news copy from global newswires and Washington Post reporters onto homepage Created CMS-generated interactive web content including side cars and skyboxes for the home page for the 70th most popular site in the US based on web trafficMonitored section fronts and produced headlines and news blurbs for photos and news stories, interactive web packages

Washington D.C. Metro Area

-Created packages, edited sound bites, b-roll footage and taped segments for live news shows in Arabic. -Researched and pitched compelling story ideas and topics pertaining to human rights and US foreign policy in the Middle East.-Pitched guests.-Created bureau's first video library archival system database.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Near & Middle Eastern Studies

Activities and Societies: SOAS Student UnionGraduated with Master's of Near and Middle Eastern Studies. Elected Post-Graduate Student.

Certificate In Essentials Of Humanitarian Practice, Global Development Humanitarian Aid Training

Essentials of Humanitarian Aid Training focused on the key competencies in the field and included case studies and emergency response.

Arabic Level Iii, Passing

Successfully completed a six-week immersive Arabic language course

Bachelors Of Arts (B.A.), Journalism

Major: Broadcast Journalism. Minor: International Relations.

Communication, Journalism, And Related Programs

Activities and Societies: TV 2 Insight News, KSU RadioGuest DJ on student radio station. Producer, co-anchor and anchor on university-run.

Certificate, Health In Humanitarian Crises

Other; Certificate In Leadership Principles, Complete

Leadership Principles is a 6-week, 35-hour online certificate program from Harvard Business School Online. Leadership Principles is.