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United States

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

• Lead the Tomorrow’s Water project, implementing water conservation efforts across the region• Produced 12-page Community Engagement Guide on water conservation• Collaborate with multiple state and local conservation partners to create essential communications• Serve on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion staff working group to ensure best practices are intentionally included in projects and throughout both internal and external communications • Write multi-state, multi-partner grant proposals to support project development• Write feature stories (20+) to translate key science about climate change solutions and work with local and regional publications to share stories across the Great Plains• Manage the Playa and Renewable Energy Collaborative, a partnership of 25 wildlife and wind professionals, to encourage communication between key players in the wind energy sector• Attend Kansas Leadership Center training programs

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Write feature stories (15+) to translate key science about climate change, and solutions, with the goal of conserving critical habitat across the Great Plains• Collaborate with local and regional publications to share climate-science focused stories• Manage the Playa and Renewable Energy Collaborative, a partnership of 26 wildlife and wind professionals, to encourage communication between key players in the wind energy sector• Produce the Playa Post newsletter, growing readership to an average open rate of 45%• Collaborate with multiple state and local partners to create handouts, event flyers and other communications materials essential to their operation• Support general communications for the joint venture across six states• Serve on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion staff working group to ensure these practices are intentionally included in projects and throughout both internal and external communications

Oak Brook, Il

• Generated monthly communications across social media and newsletters to an audience of 26K+ • Implemented additional features of Instagram resulting in 100% increase in follower growth• Produced 5 videos and 3 motion graphics to support collaborations with UN Women and UNFPA• Interviewed 10+ international sources to write monthly features for web and Zontian magazine • Built 5 new pages using HTML code and maintained daily upkeep of four sites

• Happenstance, producer. Pitched, reported, and produced podcasts about unique Chicago locations for a geo-located podcast service.• RadioMD, editor. Edited interviews for multiple healthcare-focused podcasts• The Lake Forest Leader, Freelance Reporter. Covered local events for multiple newspapers in the area.

Topeka, Kansas Area

• Covered weekend breaking news as sole reporter monitoring police scanner• Reported 2-4 articles per day for immediate online publication• Covered 20+ local events and general assignment stories in the capital city

Lawrence, Kansas Area

• Designed marketing materials for 3 public KPR events• Generated ideas to promote KPR in the community and implemented ideas into design element

Iowa City, Iowa Area

• Recruited, onboarded and managed staff of 130 to produce daily content across print, online, TV• Managed an annual budget of $150K, maximizing payroll, publishing and travel costs• Restructured departmentmental teams and workflow to improve newsroom efficiency• Oversaw daily page layout and web design across 6 platforms to reach an audience of 30K+• Approved 10+ multimedia projects, managing collaboration across departments

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

• Sustained reporting on 2-3 local news stories daily• Pitched news for daily paper and consistently turned around stories ahead of deadline• Worked independently in the Iowa City office and reported remotely to editor

London, United Kingdom

• Created first social media calendar and plan for the nonprofit company• Managed social media accounts on a daily basis• Worked to improve social media presence and substantially increased following• Collaboarted in organizing special events to support visibility in the community

Iowa City, Iowa Area

• Reported and wrote daily stories for Metro section, filing 3-5 stories each week• Pitched 5+ story ideas weekly• Worked with photographers and other staffers to collaborate on story assignments

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Majors In Journalism And International Studies, Minor In Spanish

Activities and Societies: The Daily Iowan, On Iowa!, Hawkeye Service Teams

Spanish Language, Junior

Study abroad term January 2016 - June 2016

High School

Activities and Societies: Newspaper, Yearbook, Student Government, Choir, Band Section Leader 2012-2013, Varsity Tennis Captain 2012-2013.