Kristen Brida, M.F.A Email & Phone Number

• Manage 27 education journals through maintaining and creating communication strategy with academic editors • Analyze key performance metrics including Scopus, Impact Factor, article downloads, and content growth for 27 education titles and identify opportunities for organic growth• Research education acquisition opportunities to identify and build relationships with key stakeholders• Create long-term development plans to develop revenue, content reach, and academic rigor• Collaborate with academic editors to assess editorial needs, generate special issue themes, and streamline editorial processes• Promote journal portfolio at four conferences, including AERA, the largest education conference in the US with over 12,000 attendees• Prepare and lead editorial board meetings to present journal performance, growth opportunities, and discuss avenues for growth and improvement• Negotiate and draft the terms of eight editor contracts• Created four profit and losses plans to assess viability of proposed new start journals and editor contract renewals• Onboard and orient seven new journal editors to ensure editors obtain knowledge of Routledge production process and peer review standards• Build and maintain knowledge of market trends within educational research• Liaise with internal departments such as production, peer review, and marketing to ensure timeliness of journal publication, integrity of peer review process, and reach of journal content to readers

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Liaise with journal editors to deliver KPIs, including Scopus Metrics, Impact Factors, and Mock Impact Factors• Manage invoices, vendor updates, gratuity requests, stationery requests, and payment requests for over 100 journals• Regularly update 100 journals’ landing pages and mastheads• Coordinate logistics for 20 editorial board meetings and editor orientations per year• Compile data-driven publisher’s reports for more than 100 publications • Manage and oversee development of four education journals• Research efficacy of Google Scholar Metrics for 100 Taylor & Francis titles• Craft follow-up report outlining the metrics’ efficacy, suggesting special topic ideas and potential guest editors for education titles• Create database of journal metrics using Microsoft Excel • Showcase education journal portfolio and identify potential stakeholders through networking at high-profile education conferences, including AERA and NAEYC

- Taught Introductory Composition and Literature classes- Created syllabi and course calendars for both courses- Provide detailed feedback on student writing assignments- Facilitate lively discussion and lessons with 19 composition students & 26 literature students- Hold office hours to guide students through any issues pertaining to class- Created over 75 interactive lesson plans to promote writing and reading skills

Fairfax, Va

- Responsible for supervising a nine-person editorial staff to ensure timely and successful production of our print and online journal content- Establish and execute publication timelines for the 2017-2018 publication cycle- Plan and lead monthly staff meetings to establish goals and mediate editorial issues- Designed Spring 2017 print content issue layout with Adobe InDesign- Devise social media strategy and content in order to increase content engagement- Upload and edited content onto our literary journal's website- Track Key Performance indicators, including social media presence and submissions received and report them to the Office of Student Media (OSM)- Interviewed and recruited genre editors for 2017-2018 publication cycle- Supervise and collaborated with genre editors to plan benefit reading that raised $1,500 for the local community- Organize and supervise promotional events, including AWP 2017 with 10,000 people in attendance- Collaborate with other literary journals to host recruitment events- Collaborate with Assistant Editor to create social media campaigns and create timeline of strategies- Correspond with contributors and readers of literary journal to ensure satisfaction - Regularly meet with the OSM to ensure timely production of print content and to maintain office budget- Create and upload journal content through WordPress

Fairfax, Va

- Contact local venues to coordinate reading series for the community- Conduct outreach to recruit prose and poetry writers to read for our series- Compose emails to local George Mason community to advertise reading series- Strategize and maintain social media presence via Facebook

Remote

- Composed four blog post relevant to the online literary community - Managed Twitter and Facebook pages- Read and evaluated the journal's slush piles

Selinsgrove, Pa

- Designed layout of national literary journal for high school students in a tabloid format using Adobe InDesign CS6

Cherry Hill, New Jersey

- Contacted clients to ensure ingredient specs were up-to-date, and to ensure vendor 3rd Party Audits were current and accurate- Collaborated with regulatory assistant to scan and email FDA Mock Ups- Kept detailed record of competitor packaging to track buzzwords and other advertising strategies - Wrote 60 marketing descriptions and tags for company's frozen food products-Developed a database of vendor ingredients and certifications using Microsoft Excel

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Creative Writing

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Creative Writing

Activities and Societies: Forum for Undergraduate Student Editors, Literature Club