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Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, United States

I organize, build, and deliver content for Firestone Walker's portfolio of brands: 805 Beer, Cali Squeeze, Firestone Walker Brewing Company, and more. As the sole social media and content manager, I work alongside the brand, marketing, experiential, and creative teams, ensuring all wide-reaching, engaging content and deeper brand stories are properly told across all the brand’s digital mediums. Organic, sponsored, partnered, and otherwise. I also act as the expert resource for social trends, dictate brand tone, write all product, email, site, and campaign copy, and more.

San Diego, California, United States

Applying creative skills with my knowledge of both social media and industry trends, I map out on-brand content ideas designed to offer pinnacle brands the opportunity to build globally. This includes crafting site, product, and app copy, creating and managing brand content calendars, and guiding brand tone for clients such as Surfline, W Hotels, Sun Bum, and more.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Pen articles in an established voice recognized by an international audience for Monster Children, a modern-day publisher, production house, and creative services agency that connects youth through the lens of skateboarding, surf, travel, music, sport and creative culture. I write opinion pieces, travel articles, interviews, advertorial, and other engaging pieces for both print and web.

Soorts-Hossegor, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Utilizing an experimental, creative mindset, I wrote, developed, and delivered original, quality, and persuasive features, interviews, profiles, and fashion editorials for Wasted Talent’s web, social, and print channels. Other duties included reporting social media performance indicators, proposing strategy adjustments regarding Wasted Talent’s 40K unique site readers every month if need be, managing company socials, dictating the language of brand-associated partnered projects, and elevating the viable creative leads of others.

Los Angeles, California, United States

The Shape Shift Report is a trend and insight publication developed by Another, an advertising agency based out of Los Angeles. I edited freelance submissions, wrote articles, and assisted the editor-in-chief with creating a quality web magazine that was distributed from Los Angeles to Canada, France, London, and Australia.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Was a full-time copywriter for Another, a full-service digital agency based out of Los Angeles. Delivered concise web, social, and email content on a regular basis, often working with several clients at a single time. Represented YouTube, Garrett Leight, Lululemon, and more during this time.

Costa Mesa

Worked directly alongside What Youth’s founder and editor-in-chief. Organized editorial schedules and wrote original pieces for What Youth’s web and print mediums on a daily basis. I also managed both freelance submissions and What Youth’s multiple social accounts. Plus, oversaw What Youth's branded and original media campaigns and content. In turn, I established a definitive voice that was recognized amongst What Youth’s diverse set of readers.

Sydney, Australia

Stab is the premier publication concerning all things high-performance surfing. As a writer for stabmag.com and Stab's print edition, my duties primarily centre on creating clever verbiage and angles for Stab’s partnered content, Stab partner's content on Stab and all other stories that grab the attention of both returning and passing readers. Alongside those primary obligations, I also resize photographs for web usage, proof/sub-edit props and various written submissions, provide creative input for digital and print campaigns and inspire an incredibly high benchmark for other Stab writers. Key relationships:The industry's best photographers, filmmakers, athletes, digital directors, media partners, endemic and non-endemic partners, and international office staff (Sydney and USA).

Greater Los Angeles Area

Asia Media International (AMI) arose in 1998 from the nonprofit Asia Pacific Media Network at the University of California, Los Angeles. As an AMI writer and editor, my aim is to deepen the public's academic and casual understanding of Asian media through daily news coverage and analysis.In order achieve these goals, I write original articles for a high-volume and student-driven publication, conduct research on potential topics that will generate a community dialogue and social buzz while highlighting lesser-known, albeit equally engaging, issues that attract a wide range of audience interests.Key relationships:Esteemed professors and academics based out of Los Angeles, external web developers, state workers and politically-active individuals (both domestical and international) that are indispensable points of contact for gathering key story info, facts, and figures.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Tracks is a monthly Australian surf magazine that was established in 1970. Commonly known as "The Surfer's Bible," Tracks is a widely regarded as one the most premier surfing publications in the world. As a writer for the web, I contributed weekly articles that were published on Tracks' official website, introduced future story ideas and topics for further consideration to head editors and engaged Track's broad online audience directly with the intention of promoting active discussion amongst readers.Key relationships:International head office staff (AUS and USA), external web developers, filmers and photographers, category athletes, and media partners.

Greater Los Angeles Area

The World Surf League, or WSL, organizes the annual tour of professional surf competitions and broadcasts live events from around the globe. As a member of the WSL's editorial team, I produced content, copy and creative concepts for worldsurfleague.com and actively contributed to editorial staff discussions that focused on both the conceptualization and execution of company defining stories and projects. Duties often crossed over into the social and larger communications teams as well. All of these duties, and more, helped the WSL resonate to the tune of captivating contest coverage before, after, and during Championship Tour events.Key relationships:Head office staff, filmers and photographers, endemic & non-endemic partners, category athletes, media partners, key media partners, and finance teams.

Greater Los Angeles Area

The Los Angeles Loyolan is Loyola Marymount University's student newspaper. As the exclusive editor for the Life + Culture section of the paper, I wrote for both the online and physical versions of the Loyolan, while also maintaining backend site development and maintenence. Key relationships:Campus staff and media contacts, internal web developers.

Costa Mesa, Ca

Volcom was founded in 1991 on the belief that there is a higher level of consciousness to be found within one’s self through the internal and external journeys that board sports, music, art and film provide. As a spring intern, I learned the structure, concepts and practices in concern to Volcom's corporate proceedings. Whether that be by communicating with primary retailers, engaging with customers and headquarter floor staff, or physically updating backend CMS (Full Circle) and website clothing line accounts.Key relationships:International office staff, internal sales and marketing teams, and key media partners.

Greater Los Angeles Area + Sydney, Australia

Ensured projects were delivered specifically in concern to the action sports department. Specifically as a member of the digital team that oversaw the IMG sponsored Australian Open of Surfing held at Manly Beach in Sydney, New South Wales, I produced online content for the official Aus Open of Surfing website, wrote articles, selected photos and videos for the Aus Open of Surfing's various social channels and directly updated sponsors, associated media and the public about event-related news and updates.Key relationships:International head office staff, external digital contractors, external media partners, filmers and photographers, category athletes, endemic & non-endemic partners, media partners and finance teams.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science And Government

Activities and Societies: Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, Los Angeles Loyolan, ASLMU

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Sport Management

Activities and Societies: Michigan Daily, UM Sport Business Association, UM Club Water Polo