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Washington, DC, US

Washington DC

Frederick, MD

Write arts and culture pieces as assigned and/or pitched for The Frederick News-Post's 72 Hours section. Two of my stories have been selected as cover stories for their respective issues.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Assisted the social media team and wider newsroom with packaging and distributing video content across multiple social media platforms. In addition, generated organic social media content promoting articles across Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Pitched social media trends to the editorial team to generate story ideas and assisted the analytics.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Wrote copy and consolidated assets for organic social media content to engage an audience of over 1 million combined across platforms, and engaged with audiences on such platforms by cleaning out comment sections, replying to messages and providing adequate customer relations experiences. Also assisted with marketing efforts by writing and planning paid.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

College Park, Maryland, United States

Coordinated, planned and oversaw all aspects of a five-person team, from training new employees, to scheduling meetings to providing critical feedback on other editors’ work. Also wrote engaging social copy, designed compelling graphics across all social channels, and utilized analytics and community feedback from said social channels to advise newsroom on.

College Park, Maryland, United States

College Park, Maryland, United States

College Park, Maryland, United States

Regularly reviewed trends and data reports from the state of Maryland and across the nation to pitch stories. After conducting research and interviewing experts, I wrote complex data-driven stories supplemented with visually appealing and interactive graphs created with flourish and infographics made with Adobe Illustrator.In April 2023, I was awarded a.

Curated, wrote blurbs for and assembled a weekly newsletter sent out to ~3,000 people. I interviewed subjects and conducted research to write blog posts promoting program initiatives and documenting student experiences, and also covered program events live on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Wrote engaging social copy, designed graphics, and pitched/created short-form video content to promote magazine and digital articles, including cover stories. Assisted in writing SEO copy for magazine stories to adapt them for a digital audience and wrote push alert copy for breaking news and sent out on deadline.

College Park, MD

Oversaw a team of eight in the planning, brainstorming, designing and production of the spring 2022 edition of a semesterly zine. Also wrote reviews and articles within the zine and designed the layout for the front and back cover. This particular cycle, I helped rebrand the zine with a new naming scheme.

College Park, Maryland, United States

Provided multiple in-person and virtual tours to visiting families at the University of Maryland over seven weeks, with the goal of creating an engaging, interactive and memorable experience that might convince prospective students to commit to the school.

College Park, Maryland, United States

Consulted for the University of Maryland's Office of Strategic Communications to adopt a more streamlined process for internal and external campaigns. Interviewed stakeholders, discussed with a team of six other students and developed a robust presentation to present our findings and recommendations. I used my skills in graphic design to develop key.

College Park, Maryland, United States

Used Adobe Indesign to storyboard, workshop and design about three story layouts each issue.