Joseph Riser Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Developed and helped disseminate home-community outreach that led to certification of the first-ever “subdivided” Los Angeles City neighborhood council. Helped create a standalone 501(c)3 non-profit, the “Hermon Advance Team” focused on local grants.

(Hermon Community of) Los Angeles

Briefly retained to set up a development office for an independent charter school of ~250 students, for which I previously served on the Board of Directors. I helped establish fundraising connections with numerous charitable foundations, assisted with student recruitment, and served as community liaison until new priorities were set by an interim.

; Dept. Of Political Science - (UCLA)

From October 2012 until the end of 2015, I supervised the development of content for all social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) as well as most basic Website maintenance and graphic arts needs (with student workers) for the department. From 2007 until 2012, I worked with a team of six professors (UCLA, Harvard, Stanford, and Ohio State).

; Thousand Oaks, CA

For an independent educational publisher, I managed editorial production (layout/copyediting/proofreading/pagination, etc.) of academic journals containing political science, urban affairs, education, business, and science/technical research, including: "American Politics Research," "Journal of Management," "Community College Review," "Urban Affairs.

; Los Angeles, CA

Opened a regional, Los Angeles-based office for a Bay Area media communications firm (originally called "hypelab") -- acquired by Grayling in 2011 and now dissolved. Recruited new clients in Southern California and serviced all communications needs -- including events, media program planning and execution, and public relations -- until shortly after 9/11.

Century City, CA

Managed and contributed to all media relations and marketing communications activities for clients ranging from start-ups to publicly held firms at an agency ranked as one of the “top 10 hottest” independent high-tech public relations firms nationwide (for 1995 – 1998). Throughout, I supervised a group of 4-5 professionals handling the agency’s most.

Colver City, CA

Handled all marketing communications and public relations duties for a start-up developer of Internet server systems, as well as its larger parent company – software distributor Transparent Technology.

(formerly "J&D") Encino, CA

Media relations, hard-core technology writing and editing...

Los Angeles, CA

Covered nascent personal-computer (PC) industry, aerospace, and defense contractors writing business and financial news about companies based in Southern California for the leading weekly trade news journal of the electronics industry.

Pasadena, CA

Employed within weeks of starting an unpaid internship as a college sophomore. Made daily visits to 5-6 local "cop shops" in small surrounding towns to research and write a 1/4-page daily "police blotter" report and the occasional front-section crime story. The Star-News was, at the time, a mid-sized local newspaper (circulation, approx. 100,000) and part.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Journalism

Journalism major; social science minor. Served as a copyeditor for the student daily newspaper while also working part-time at the.

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Journalism

Activities and Societies: Editor, PCC Courier - weekly student newspaper Editor of the PCC Courier sophomore year; award-winning.