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Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Develop and execute comprehensive communication strategies and implement tactics to build awareness, consideration, and engagement with donor campaigns and strategies.• Draft external-facing communication assets, including press releases, key messages, website content, and customizable toolkit materials for foodbank use, with a consistent brand “voice” reflective of Feeding America.• Prepare briefs, fact sheets, talking points, and other communication materials for Feeding America executive leadership in support of donor media relations.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Work alongside the communication team to write, review, and edit donor communication materials to ensure it is accurate, readable, and adheres to brand guidelines• Develop communication materials, including social media copy, press releases, toolkits, guides, and quotes• Strategize campaign outlines and key messages

Greater Chicago Area

• Sole Copywriter responsible for all copy and content projects or tasks within the agency • Write social, web, email, video, & paid-ad copy for 30+ clients spanning multiple industries• Research, write, strategize for SEO, format on WordPress, and utilize Google Analytics to monitor weekly long-form blogs that get published on Indirap’s website and sent out to the agency’s email list• Conduct in-depth research to develop brand verbiage documents for 10+ small business clients that summarize and build out the tone, personality, and strategy behind their brand copy in order to produce more effective messaging

Arlington Heights

• Developed, managed, and analyzed the restaurant's social media platforms• Conducted in-depth research of bands and artists to properly promote their shows• Used Facebook affinity lists to target our desired audience• Documented & shared live updates throughout Hey Nonny’s first-ever Blues Summit which involved 4 different venues

Arlington Heights

• Provide quality service by promptly responding to customer needs• Constantly multitask and work with others to ensure the customer is pleased• Mastered the intricate art of balancing trays of food through crowds of people

Greater Chicago Area

• Develop creative content for and maintain the organization’s social platforms • Used website analytics to spearhead and lead a team of 3 to incorporate SEO into the organization’s website• Responsible for an end of the year campaign concept that resulted in over $40,000 in donations• Use my storytelling ability to turn complicated legalese into relatable and action compelling narratives

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

• Collaborated with four other students to develop a creative campaign for a local non-profit• Wrote all the copy and oversaw the creative work to ensure that it was on strategy• Developed a presentation and successfully pitched our campaign idea to the client

Schaumburg, Il

• Conducted employment and education verifications for pre-employment screening• Consistently met monthly production and quality goals• Learned how to decorate a desk to make it feel home-y

Mount Prospect, Il

• Provided quality service by promptly responding to customer needs• Constantly multitasked and worked with others to ensure the customer was pleased

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

• Raised approximately $10,000 through donations from alumni• Built a rapport with each University of Illinois alumni I contacted

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

• Passed out U of I merch at events all around Chicago• Spread the Illini passion to hundreds of people in the Chicagoland area

Bachelor'S Degree, Advertising

Activities and Societies: Active Minds: October 2017 - Present American Advertising Federation: January 2015 - Present Amnesty.

Communications

Semester Abroad Countries visited: Spain, Denmark, Czech Republic, Germany, Portugal, United Kingdom, France, Monaco, Austria, Switzerland