Kara Jackman Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Lead and manage comprehensive communications campaigns via social media, email marketing, podcasting and webinars to share with rehabilitation researchers, health systems, and relevant colleges and universities. Analyze performance metrics for audience engagement and improvement.• Partner with key university-based researchers to produce webinar and podcast episodes to improve patient-centered outcomes in rehabilitation and health systems research.• Generate increased performance, and interaction across LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and X• Analyze performance metrics for audience engagement using Google analytics and insights.• Organize efforts with communications calendar created in AsanaBuild and update a code-free database of resources shared by webinar presenters and other key members of the LeaRRn community. Tend to software updates and communication between Airtable and Softr, the user experience (UX) front end application.• Database offers two different ways to interact with the resources, list view (searchable database), and grid view (downloadable spreadsheet). • Add resources and controlled, descriptive vocabulary to the base Airtable.• Organize and propose ways to optimize the database as needed.Host, organize, and archive virtual events, including webinars, Summits and Institutes for LeaRRn’s worldwide audience of rehabilitation professionals.• Create and communicate the event through Mailchimp and four social media channels.• Utilize Zoom teleconferencing platform for webinar-based events, sharing screen, recording, assisting with chat and Q and A functions.• Download webinar recordings for editing, normalizing, archiving, captioning, and dissemination using Youtube linked on the LeaRRn website.Use Google Analytics to Draft mid-term and annual reports • Create internal reports to share performance with LeaRRn leadership culling impression and user data from Google Analytics, Mailchimp and social media channel performance data.

Boston, Ma

Lead a one-woman department providing doctoral and master’s level research assistance, organization, documentation, and access to a large archive of artifacts, manuscripts, and rare books housed in multiple locations. Customized out-of-the-box, web-based database software (Archon and ArchivesSpace) and created schema, organizational structure, and data elements describing collections held in the archives. Crafted legal, acquisition, and deed of gift agreements for special collections. Developed exhibitions of art and artifacts throughout the School of Theology building. • Developed comprehensive policy and procedure manuals for student workers and users, covering data entry in Archon and ArchivesSpace, collection organization, archival access, and microfilm/scanner equipment usage for patrons.• Managed archival collections by organizing, preserving, and maintaining documents and records, ensuring accessibility and long-term preservation.• Enhanced visibility of archival collections through strategic social media campaigns, creative signage, brochures, and promotional materials.• Coordinated annual art installations and events, managing public relations for fine art loans to the institution.• Curated and developed engaging exhibitions, both digital and on-site, to showcase archival materials.• Authored diverse content, including press releases, articles, appeal letters, historical narratives, and website materials for the Archives and FOCUS STH Alumni magazine.

Dallas, Texas, United States

Create and hold virtual spaces for disabled, medically-complex adults and caregivers via Zoom• Organize an agenda featuring multiple ways to engage audience members, meeting them where they are. This includes games, mindfulness-based activities, introduction of coping skills, and open sharing by participants. • Cultivate a safe space by creating meeting norms and ground rules introduced at the beginning of each meeting.Collaborate with ConnectMed International to deliver virtual programming for teens and caregivers.• Assist ConnectMed International with their quarterly virtual Camp Cosmos events, assisting with everything from games to young adult and caregiver support.• Aligned with ConnectMed International to create a space for teens and young adults with craniofacial conditions to find community.• Listen to concerns of caregivers and young adults, providing resources and support to optimize their livesContribute articles to the CCA Network newsletter and CCA Kids blog on a variety of topics including, self care, medical trauma, adaptive athletics, movement, and wellness.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Developed and implemented communications strategies for Children’s Craniofacial Association to ensure clinicians, caregivers, and members stay informed with up-to-date information about craniofacial syndromes, events, and fundraising opportunities. Crafted social media campaigns for audience that resulted in measurable impact with an increase in viewers, interaction, web traffic, and fundraising.• Developed campaigns around Face Equality International week, Craniofacial Acceptance Month, Giving Tuesday, North Texas Giving Day that communicated a theme for our membership to find connection and self worth, while communicating the organization’s mission and values.• Increased fundraising via Facebook fundraisers on social media resulting in over $60,000 in donations in 2018 and 2020.• Collaborated with Executive Director and Director of Development on annual appeal, Giving Tuesday, and North Texas Giving Day to gain and retain donors to the organization via social media.Wrote feature-length stories and white papers for the educational overview collection, quarterly newsletter, and CCA Kids blog.• Crafted 30 detailed biographical stories, “30 Stories, 30 Faces, 30 Years” project for multi-channel distribution in the newsletter, blog, and social media in 2019. Archived on the CCA Kids Blog.• Wrote educational overviews, provided as PDFs for free on our website, guiding our membership through recovery from complex surgeries, interacting with TV, radio, and internet media outlets, and other topics related to craniofacial conditions. • Maintained high standards for ethics, grammar, AP Style through thorough editing and proofreading.

Needham, Massachusetts, United States

Lead campaign communications planning for social media planning, implementation, and performance analysisPress release creation Working with field and outreach, and volunteer coordinators on recruitment and outreach to important constituent groups, like the Democratic Town committees in Needham, Medfield, and DoverDrafted scripts for Votebuilder canvassing, and phone banking

Greater Boston Area

Taught the data visualization tool, TimeLineJS by Knight Labs for the Data + Narrative: Data-Driven Storytelling Workshops, June 3 - 7, 2019. Explained why timelines are an important form of data visualization. Demonstrated functions of TimeLineJS. Lead an in-class example for students to create their own timelines using a provided dataset.

Develop topic and write about stories related to professional sports teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League and Major League Baseball (MLB). Contributed photography to website for accompany stories. Interviewed former Major League MVP first baseman, Mo Vaughn and Comcast Sportsnet New England Correspondent, Trenni Kusnierek. Create podcast content.

Boston, Ma

Contribute articles to the Sports of Boston blog about New England area professional and college sports teams, specifically the Boston Red Sox and Celtics. Write blog posts, upload content for review in Wordpress for two editor’s final review and posting. Input information into search engine optimization (SEO) plugin for increased hit rates to article.

Recording secretary and event planner for teen symposium

Prepared accession sheets with object name, dates, medium, dimensions, description, condition report and sketch of object. Followed guidelines for marking, storage and handling as outlined in The New Museum Registration Methods. Created database record for object in The Museum System™, that included controlled vocabulary terms from Dublin Core and Art and Architecture Index.

Created a preliminary inventory for the Faneuil Hall Marketplace and Bauhaus manuscript collections in preparation for delivery to university repositories. Created indexes, box labels and carousel labels for slide collections at both home and office. Stopped fading of slides, by scanning them into the computer and using Adobe Photoshop* to enhance color and clarity. Sent color corrected slides to the film shop for duplication. Created an inventory of past and current project files housed at the office and warehouse. Developed record schedule document for current office files. Created filing system and organized office space for principle architect.

Coordinated all operations regarding capture, transcription and editing of oral histories. Create comprehensive inventory of holdings for oral history tapes in collection. Managed all elements of the creation, status history, dissemination and interpretation of legal agreements between heirs/donors and the library. Developed procedural manual for all aspects of oral history program. Researched and wrote biographical sketches and sent to National Archives and Records Administration to be included in catalog descriptions. Scanned oral history transcripts using OCR software.

Paralegal, Paralegal Studies

Mlis, Archives And Records Management

Activities and Societies: Society of American Archivists Student ChapterSociety of American Archivists Student Chapter, 2003-2004

B.A., English, Minor In Art History

Activities and Societies: Poetry Circle, The Crusader (Newspaper, Women's Forum, Women's Forum publicationsPoetry Club, Women's Club.