Kyler Sumter Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Write blog posts profiling environmental justice partners and highlighting environmental racism in Chicago
• Work with Chicago community partners including the Southeast Environmental Taskforce and People for Community Recovery
• Help lead regional media outreach efforts to amplify NRDC’s lead pipe survey findings
• Write op-eds for national media outlets
• Pitch and coordinate interviews for NRDC experts with traditional and nontraditionalmedia including podcasts and social media segments
• Maintain press lists and send out press releases and statements

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Serve as point of contact for clients including Golden Apple and Christopher House
• Create social media content, calendars and track social analytics for clients
• Establish award-winning media relations campaign, press conferences and roundtablediscussions to amplify Golden Apple’s work to solve Illinois’ teacher shortage crisis
• Create content for C-Strategies’ social media accounts, newsletter and podcast
• Draft written content including op-eds, emails, and letters

Greater Chicago Area

• Gained experience in working with clients in health/wellness, fitness, and education industries: Optimum Nutrition, BSN, hoopla digital, and BioCell Technology.
• Participated in account team strategy sessions and new business brainstorms
• Worked on launch of pivotal new study in the skin health place from BioCell Technology, secured both trade and consumer interest for client
• Wrote pitches and cultivate relationships with key media outlets, securing media coverage for hoopla digital in CBS San Francisco, Parade, Book Riot and more
• Researched potential influencers for campaigns and built relationships with leading fitness, skin health, and education influencers
• Led activation for Optimum Nutrition Amazon Prime Day influencer

Boston, Massachusetts

• Create PR campaign to help client, "Love Your Magic" gain more sponsors
• Offer new owned media ideas to help client start new blog
• Develop detailed media/influencer outreach lists
• Pitch journalists and potential sponsors and help client gain five tentative new sponsors
• Receive 13 responses of interest from journalists and potential sponsors

Boston

• Assemble on-boarding books for new employees
• Order and organize office and kitchen supplies
• Have constant communication with managers about new hires
• Make copies and shred materials
• Cover front desk and answer phones
• Make spreadsheets of useful information for faculty across several countries and study abroad sites

London, United Kingdom

• Manned front desk, answered phones, signed for packages
• Prepared exam materials
• Made labels for Faculty materials
• Greeted guests and helped them sign in
• Collected attendance registers from each classroom
• Was assigned independent projects

• Selected to be part of a five-person pilot program to jumpstart Youth Radio's digital content
• Manage Youth Radio Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter accounts
• Cover national news each week
• Helped increased Youth Radio's Instagram engagement and Twitter following
• Correspond with editors each week
• Create infographics for stories and social media

Chicago

• Write compelling stories for web content and newsletters
• Conduct daily news clip entry and routing
• Update online events calendar
• Draft news releases for stories and events
• Distribute press releases to media outlets
• Contact families for special projects or attendance at fundraising events

Boston

• Teach members how to do several in studio roles including, audio, camera, and stage manager
• Help lead a team of eight members in meetings for script writing and episode pitching
• Research and book guests through email outreach

Greater Boston Area

• Post updates about meetings on the “On That Point” Twitter
• Frequently tweet about segments and episode topics
• Tweet pictures of meetings and episode shoots

Boston

• Pitches weekly episode ideas and suggestions for potential guests and segments for Telly Award winning news show "On That Point"
• Creates questions for each guest ensuring guests and anchors are prepared for broadcast
• Participates in script writing to ease transitions between segments
• Serves in several in studio roles including, audio, camera, and stage manager

London, United Kingdom

• Write 4-5 news and social articles a day
• Manage engagement on Twitter and Facebook and create and schedule posts
• Stay up to date with current conversations and trends on Twitter

Greater Chicago Area

• Cover neighborhood news and events
• Copy edit final layout of newspaper
• Write resident profiles
• Write previews of upcoming events
• Create monthly calendar

• Cover national breaking news for USA Today College
• Research current social trends
• Manage social accounts on Twitter and Facebook
• Created posts that received high levels of increased engagement each week
• Write listicles and lifestyle news important to college students

Greater Boston Area

• Write lunch and nightlife reviews
• Cover on campus events
• Research and fact check articles
• Transcribe audio from interviews

Greater Chicago Area

• In person customer service, problem solving
• Over the phone customer service, answering questions about city stickers
• Asked to make graphics and information pamphlets about city stickers and vehicles
• City hall tasks, internet research of CPS schools, making spreadsheets of info of hundreds of schools
• Learning proficiency of online city sticker database, point of sale database

Boston

• Manages staff writers by assigning stories, fact-checking, and contacting sources
• Responsible for writing and editing news articles on current city and campus issues
• Investigates breaking news developments, such as campus protests and reports on events such as public city hall meetings and city council elections while meeting nightly deadline
• Researches story ideas to pitch in weekly meetings and conducts taped interviews or narratives
• Reviews and evaluates notes taken about news events to isolate pertinent facts and details
• Interviews Boston University students, residents, professors, and media relations professionals

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Major: Journalism | Minor: Communications | Concentration: Mandarin Chinese

Summa Cum Laude

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