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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.

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