My duties at Leadership South Carolina, the state's oldest and most recognized leadership development program, included organizing applications, payment, and required materials from candidates anticipating acceptance into the program for that year's class, as well as following up with these candidates to ensure all requirements are met on their end to participate. My duties also included maintaining contact and relationships with various organizations and personnel to create agendas, logistics, appropriate signage, and lodging needs for eight leadership development sessions across the state of South Carolina each year, creating invoices and following up for any outstanding balances, and keeping all social media profiles and newsletters up to date. I also attended Board of Trustee meetings and wrote the Minutes to approve from the prior meeting, submitted receipts, reimbursement forms, and other purchased materials for the CPA to account for, and designed new promotional materials. Lastly, I maintained a professional rapport with business leaders, state government officials, Board of Trustees, alumni, and any other personnel present during Leadership South Carolina events, as well as via phone and email.

My duties included traveling to doctor's offices across the Lexington-Columbia area to market our physical therapy practice and build relationships with them. I also reached out to influential health professionals within the area to tell them more about our company and what makes us unique. I had the opportunity to build relationships with local business owners in the community by attending Business Networking International (BNI) meetings to create potential referral partnerships. I initiated these relationships by also attending Lexington Chamber of Commerce events as well. Another task of mine was to tailor and organize all marketing materials in a way that would be most effective based off of the demographics of county and/or zip code.

At Clemson Downs, I was responsible for answering general inquiries both in person and via phone and making calls pertaining to information needed by leadership staff. I also conducted employment verification checks for potential employees, and created, published, and distributed monthly newsletters to the residents and their families. Because of my internship with Clemson Downs as a student, I was also able to answer questions regarding community outreach and assist in marketing the right level of care to future potential residents. I put together and mail all of this marketing information also. I created and distributed flyers to give updated information to the residents and their families from leadership staff, handled money for meal tickets from both resident family members and staff, as well as maintain the cleanliness of the register, copier, fax machine, and postage machine.

On top of working part-time with Clemson Athletics while enrolled as a full-time student, I was the Marketing and Community Outreach Intern at Clemson Downs. This opportunity allowed me to expand my knowledge on continuing-care models within the elderly community, while also learning new, innovative ways to market and compete within the industry. With this role, I assisted Clemson Downs in the rebranding of the Clemson Downs logo through digital technology and assisted in the development of the 40th year anniversary social media and print ad campaigns. I also assisted in the redesign and writing of potential resident informational packets and created a video using iMovie for the State of Clemson Address to celebrate Clemson Downs’ 40th anniversary and boost marketing efforts. To perform my internship duties effectively, I sat in various meetings to discuss the community outreach projects planned for the month and brainstorm other potential opportunities and sit in on conference calls with the graphic designer for all Clemson Downs ads and give input. I also assisted in leading tours around each of Clemson Downs’ four facilities to potential future residents whenever needed and assisted in hosting potential community partners for lunch to discuss future possibilities. I attended monthly senior networking seminars with Clemson Downs in Anderson, SC and Easley, SC in order to gain more knowledge about other senior living facilities within the area and developments in new technology for the senior community to increase marketing possibilities.

I worked as an Athletics Tutor for Clemson University while enrolled as a full-time student. My duties included explaining a variety of academic topics to various athletes that are unclear, using a variety of learning models and techniques taught by the department to stimulate thinking and maximize learning capability, creating lesson plans for each tutoring session tailored to a specific athlete’s needs, and assisting athletes in creating a time management plan for due dates and assignments. I was also responsible for coordinating plans with athletes’ learning specialists and academic advisors, complying with all NCAA rules for tutoring student athletes, and maintaining academic integrity for both myself and the student athletes, while maintaining professionalism and confidentiality with all student athletes and coordinators.

As a student strategist affiliated with Clemson University’s Social Media Listening Center, I’ve completed ongoing research projects focused on listening, monitoring, analyzing and engaging in local and global online conversations. In this role, I’ve obtained a basic understanding of social media analytics and associated software, such as Salesforce Social Studio. Through the interdisciplinary course, I’ve gained applicable real world experience through completing projects for a local nonprofit, local news stations (Wyff News 4; WSPA 7), SCEMD, and Clemson’s Emergency Management Team. Additionally, I’ve had the unique opportunity to assist Clemson researchers on Russian and Iranian social media propaganda research related to influencing the USA elections.

During my time at MOCMI, I was in charge of all of their social media platforms. I posted daily, answered any questions posted on the social media sites, analyzed social media accounts' daily interactions to determine which types of posts reached the largest amount of people, planned following posts accordingly after obtaining this information, encouraged people via social media to get involved by promoting clean-up events on these social media platforms, and promoted giveaways to boost our following on social media platforms.