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

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

- 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.

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.

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.

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Creative Writing

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Creative Writing

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