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Chicago, Il, Us

United States

Write and edit copy, including blog, magazine, emails, marketing materials, signs, and interpretive elements.

Glenview, Il

Have written news, features, blogs, and marketing materials for dozens of publications and websites since 2004. Work has also included creating and maintaining online content sections (including daily news, video, and how-tos), hiring and managing staff, and developmental editing. Social media management includes increasing engagement through interaction, tracking success through analytics, consulting on related issues, and managing brand and voice. A partial list of bylines includes:Simplemost.comSciFiTV@bellaonline.comHoodline.comHungry? ChicagoThe Pretty PimpleThe Happy Cat SiteSqueaks & Nibbles (assistant editor)The Happy Puppy SiteThe Labrador SiteThe Learned FangirlLTHForum.comLaughspin.comThe Mommy GamersSuperSummaryNickiSwift.comLooper.comAsparagus MagazineFood RepublicSocial media and marketing clients have included Sunstar for dental professionals, Emilio's Tapas, Elite Moving & Storage, Fantasy Costumes, and Captivate Search Marketing.

Morning shift editor and writer for Simplemost, Don't Waste Your Money, The FreeTV Project, Scripps News, The List, and The Delite.

Entertainment news writer. focusing on video games, movies, and television.

Northbrook, Illinois

Wrote articles and activities sections for print publication with 83,000 circulation. Published and provided original content for website; updated social media. Wrote bimonthly newsletter. Worked with PR representatives around Chicagoland to publicize events around the city, focusing on dining, beer, entertainment, and family destinations in the suburbs.

Chicago, Illinois

Writer and editor of feature articles and interviews for the company's three consumer magazines, Sophisticate's Hairstyle Guide, Sophisticate's Black Hair, and The Complete Woman. Duties also included bookkeeping for purchased photos, assisting with photo shoots, working regularly with salon professionals, and purchasing book excerpts.

Helped to create and manage content section for sporting goods website fronted by Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jordan and John Elway. Duties included maintaining site, ghostwriting for athletes, writing and editing articles, coordinating with other business units, deciding overall look and feel of content, writing marketing copy.

Served as writer, editor and web producer on the Web sites TVQuest and MovieQuest. Wrote regular features about celebrities and TV shows, uploaded daily news, and created a weekly animation column distributed by the Tribune's syndication network of 300 daily newspapers. Edited daily and weekly features for both online and print media, plus the New York Times television highlights, and contributed to gossip column. Produced the Soapin' with Soaprah site.

Lombard, Il

Acted as liaison between Electronic Gaming Monthly and Gamespot.com. Wrote daily news for Gamespot.com, contributed to EGM.

Served as writer, editor, producer and web designer for the site nuke.com. Duties included writing daily news, exclusive features, online interviews, online design, movie reviews, audio and video production. Wrote regularly about movies and the Internet for the print magazine Cinescape. Company was acquired by Ziff-Davis Inc. in 1996.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Biology, Conservation Education, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Student Leader, 2018; Global Initiatives Writing Contest Honorable Mention, 2018; Recipient of Global.

Master Of Science - Ms, Journalism

Participated in the school's first online track, pioneering Internet journalism. Studied political and entertainment journalism. Beats.

B.S., Political Science

Activities and Societies: The Wellesley NewsPolitical Science major, cum laude graduate. Worked as an editor on The Wellesley News all.