Keith Olsen Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

• Write all communications under the Dean's cover, including a weekly newsletter, important announcements, speeches, presentations, etc.
• Collaborate and promote faculty research to internal and external audiences
• Serve as a strategic advisor to the dean and manage the Dean's Office affairs
• Serve as managing editor and writer for the College's biannual magazine and produce each issue from conception to print
• Spearhead special projects including a website re-design, branding/logo enforcement, art exhibition, and video production
• Manage three full-time staff members and freelance/contract employees

New York, United States

TA for first-year, second-semester evening students through the Academic Success Program

TA for Foundations for the Study of Law (first-year, first-semester course)

From fall 2015 through spring 2019, I taught a graduate-level course in the Food Studies program at NYU Steinhardt (steinhardt.nyu.edu/nutrition) entitled "Digital Skills in Food Media." The course, which I developed, focuses on social media, writing online, food journalism, web maintenance, and building a communications strategy.

New York, NY

• Served as editor-in-chief for two Steinhardt academic departments' websites: Communicative Sciences and Disorders & Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health
• Responded to and fulfilled requests from faculty and administrators for site updates
• Rewrote outdated web material and produced more appealing and engaging programmatic descriptions
• Managed event calendars and conducted media and public-at-large outreach
• Launched and regularly produced content for Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn
• Coordinated and produced video and photo content

New York, NY

• Served as editor-in-chief of school’s website, including writing news stories and copy, selecting images for the homepage slideshow and running analytics reports on site use
• Responded to and fulfilled requests from all departments within the school to update website
• Produced content for robust social media presence
• Supervised a student diarist fellowship and produced weekly videos about life at the school
• Created print and web advertisements for degree and non-degree programs
• Manager for first site redesign since 2008 and graphics project for new curriculum rollout

New York, NY

• Responsible for logistics of newly-developed professional education program including scheduling of classrooms, recruiting staff, managing equipment and technology and assisting professors on-site
• Developed strategies for marketing courses and performed outreach to increase registrations
• Oversaw online admissions system, wrote course descriptions and answered queries from prospectives
• Developed database and communication plan to track potential enrollees and retain past students
• Reconciled budgets on a weekly basis, paid vendors and instructors and monitored tuition revenue

New York, NY

• Served as point-person for technical and logistical queries regarding two prestigious journalism prizes, arranged travel and lodging for award-winners and juries and processed new entries
• Managed duPont website redesign and served as webmaster and social media editor
• Oversaw two research fellows year-round and twenty-five volunteers at award dinners

New York, NY

• Imported, logged, digitized and transcribed feed for breaking news and on-air segments for Nightline
• Researched stories and assembled briefs for producers, correspondents and anchors
• Filmed b-roll, conducted interviews and assisted producers in the field
• Pitched story on the economy at Nightline, resulting in on-air profile on job-hunting as a new graduate during the Great Recession

New York, NY

• Edited and proofread class descriptions for university's continuing education course bulletin
• Maintained database of course offerings to reflect accurate class descriptions and statuses
• Established first-ever stock photo library to use in quarterly bulletins
• Performed various administrative tasks like photocopying, answering phones and handling general inquiries

New York, NY

• Logged, dubbed, transcribed, and assisted in editing footage for on-air segments
• Filmed b-roll, conducted interviews, and assisted producers in the field

Doctor Of Law - Jd

Activities and Societies: Dean's Scholar, Shepard Broad Scholar, Dean's Leadership Council member, Law Review Executive Editor ('22-'23).

Master Of Science (M.S.), Journalism

Digital media concentrator

Diplôme De Français Professionnel (Dfp A2), Business French, Highest Honors

French Cinema

While abroad, I attended the University of Paris-Pantheon/Sorbonne for French cinema.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Journalism, Romance Languages