-Freelance writer, editor, and content creator for Feast and Field, Food & Wine, and R+Co.-Contributor to Feast Magazine for both print and online features.

-Owner and operator of Kansas City-based cottage bakery making cookies, cakes, French pastries, and custom orders.-Manages all marketing efforts, including building and maintaining jeanjunepastry.com, food photography, social media, outreach, and more.

-Crafted social media and digital content strategies—including search engine and engagement optimization—for a national food media platform.-Collaborated with content editor to plan upcoming issues and brainstorm sources.-Published and edited articles in custom content management system.

-Maintained social media profiles for six brands: Black Dog Coffee House, Fervere, Filling Station Coffee, Ibis Bakery, Messenger Cafe and Messenger Coffee Co.-Increased engagement and following on social media, including a 24% increase in year-over-year Instagram followers for Ibis and 38% 10-month increase in followers for Messenger.-Creative director for photo and video shoots for seven food & beverage brands, including content creation for social media, advertisements, and editorial features.-Pitched and project-managed new products and community-engagement concepts.

-Laminated and shaped 150+ croissants per shift-Helped manager maintain list of priorities and tasks for pastry team-Pitched and tested creative new menu items to diversify current offerings-Mixed and baked quick breads, cookies, bars, puff pastry products and tarts

-Worked with a team of seven to 10 to prep and bake pastries and artisan breads.-Practiced efficient production and workflow scaling, making, cutting and shaping croissants, brioche, quiche, galettes, challah and more.

Editor of First Chair magazine, now Modern Salon Career Handbook, a triannual publication-Elected issue themes, feature topics, cover imagery and call-outs-Assigned content to writers-Worked closely with artistic director to create a cohesive design that spoke to our audience and reflected our content-Copyedited and proofread all content -Cut and reworked copy for length, content and telling a meaningful story-Collaborated with managing editor to dummy magazine

Senior editor of Modern Salon and Salon Today magazines-Contacted sources and compiled all products and news coverage-A lead contributor for Modern Salon social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram-Completed projects and articles as assigned for Modern Salon, Salon Today and First Chair magazines-Utilized sources and press releases to source, compose and post articles on ModernSalon.com-Attended photo shoots and industry events to network and build relationships-Requested imagery from sources and resize for print or web where applicable-Strategized with editorial team to produce original content and drive web traffic-Pitched story ideas for four monthly sections plus additional content online**Note: Began as assistant editor in 2014; promoted to associate editor in 2015; promoted to senior editor in 2016.

-Maintained relationships with doctors, engineers and businesspeople to establish and meet goals -Organized materials, schedules and presentations for fellowship interviews and annual Day of Biodesign-Completed tasks requested by the program coordinator, fellows and faculty-Edited and updated the fellowship website and brochures

Teaching assistant for Journalism 4506, Magazine Design-Lead two-hour design labs weekly to teach Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator -Critiqued magazine designs created by students -Held open lab hours weekly to answer questions, give assistance and review designs of students

Teaching assistant for Journalism 4408, Magazine Editing-Taught a weekly discussion section (30 students) to answer questions, reinforce concepts (AP Style, grammar, etc.) taught in class and review homework -Held office hours weekly to assist and advise students as needed -Graded all student homework, which usually entailed articles that had been copyedited or proofread by students-Met with professor and other teaching assistants weekly to discuss grading and teaching strategies

Scene department editor for Columbia, Mo., city magazine-Supervised a staff of more than 10 reporters and contributing writers -Edited and proofread between eight and 10 stories per week for grammar, AP and house style, content and organization-Collaborated with reporters on story development and gave feedback on drafts -Wrote headlines, subheads, sell lines and table of contents blurbs-Pitched story ideas for the scene department every week-Pitched blog ideas for the scene department every week-Wrote blogs for VoxTalk every week-Edited standalone features-Investigated sources for pre-reporting and pitching purposes-Found and posted events for magazine calendar

-Developed online content based on editor pitches utilizing multimedia, audio, etc. -Pitched and wrote weekly blog posts about food, night life, culture and fashion -Produced a recurring blog section reviewing brunch locations, “The Brunch Club” -Investigated success and audience of online content using Google Analytics-Became proficient with Django, Wordpress, Photoshop, InDesign, Storify and Timeline JS-Experience with Google analytics and mag+ iPad proofing

-Covered a neighborhood beat informing the community about events, people and important issues -Proposed and researched new story ideas to pitch to the beat leader-Composed stories on deadline based on research and interviews -Served on weekly general assignment shifts to cover breaking news, obituaries, etc.-Generated story ideas, scheduled and conducted interviews, and completed three stories per week for assigned neighborhood

-Contacted and interviewed subjects and vendors to write pieces -Researched, pitched and sourced new story ideas about bridal and wedding trends to an editor-Made changes and submitted new drafts based upon suggestions from an editor