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Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Communications specialist for the NCJC Health Advocacy Project, which works to ensure all North Carolinians, including individuals and families with low incomes, racial and ethnic minorities, and rural communities, have meaningful access to high quality, affordable, equitable, and comprehensive health care so that children, adults, and families have better health outcomes and productive lives.

Designed the layout for the 2022 Wake Review print and online magazine.Designed flyers, static ads, and videos for the club's social media accounts.Responsibilities required advanced competency in Adobe Creative Cloud suite, including Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator.

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

Developed and wrote strategic communications plans, feature stories, annual reports, technical reports, social media posts, blogs, web content, story maps, case studies, and marketing materials.Interviewed subject matter experts to write brief articles discussing their experiences and lessons learned. Edited and wrote content for federal websites migrating into Drupal.Helped manage several projects on risk communication, which included interviews, simulation designs, and… Show more Developed and wrote strategic communications plans, feature stories, annual reports, technical reports, social media posts, blogs, web content, story maps, case studies, and marketing materials.Interviewed subject matter experts to write brief articles discussing their experiences and lessons learned. Edited and wrote content for federal websites migrating into Drupal.Helped manage several projects on risk communication, which included interviews, simulation designs, and focus groups nationwide. Edited a wide range of technical, scientific, outreach, and marketing documents, ensuring that all documents adhered to branding and style requirements.Regularly wrote and updated ERG news stories and social media content.Cowrote and presented two companywide training webinars on best practices for writing and editing.Facilitated usability tests that gathered stakeholder and public feedback to develop more user-friendly websites. Show less

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Edited various handbooks and documents for Office of Graduate Programs staff.Manned office front desk, answered incoming phone calls, and acted as first point of contact for students and visitors.Organized hundreds of packets for incoming LL.M. students’ August orientation.

Fayetteville, North Carolina Area

Collaborated with fellow interns to produce an independent intern exhibit. Proposed three potential exhibit topics to Army staff, selected representative artifacts, researched and wrote artifact labels and exhibit banner text, and coordinated closely with Fort Bragg’s Visual Information staff for banner production.Conducted extensive research and wrote artifact labels for the museum’s “‘The Animal Called POW’: Special Forces Prisoners of the Vietcong” exhibit.Proofed and edited… Show more Collaborated with fellow interns to produce an independent intern exhibit. Proposed three potential exhibit topics to Army staff, selected representative artifacts, researched and wrote artifact labels and exhibit banner text, and coordinated closely with Fort Bragg’s Visual Information staff for banner production.Conducted extensive research and wrote artifact labels for the museum’s “‘The Animal Called POW’: Special Forces Prisoners of the Vietcong” exhibit.Proofed and edited museum panels. Show less

Master'S Degree, English

Master’s thesis titled: “A ‘Queen’ in King Arthur's Court: Split Selves, the Grotesque, and Homoerotic Desire in T.H. White's The Ill-Made.

Certificate, Graphic Design

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science And Government

Financed 100% of undergraduate education through NC Department of Veterans Affairs Scholarship and UNC grants.