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Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, IL, US

• Edit, proofread and provide quality-assurance support on assorted marketing deliverables (ranging from packaging, print and OOH to digital, social and internally produced thought leadership) as well as documents and.
• Provide all levels of editing on corporate-client reports and white papers, primarily annual reports and sustainability reports.
• Copyedit supers and closed captions for video produced in-house; clean up machine-generated audio transcripts for accuracy.
• Edit, upload and format thought leadership content to the web.
• Support and work collaboratively across teams by managing content for reports and other copy-dense deliverables, including educational DEI efforts.

• My most recent freelance and contract jobs include work for Girl Scouts of the USA, Quill Content, Brookfield Properties Retail, Gallagher, Leo Burnett and Hyatt Hotels.Organization types for which I have edited.
• ad and marketing agencies (digital and content)
• financial services providers
• global investment firms
• luxury goods designers
• international hotel brands

New York, New York, US

Copyedit a range of materials for accuracy, clarity and alignment with the organization’s brand voice.

• Edited and localized digital copy from UK English to US/global English, in line with end-client branding, editorial and SEO standards.Projects included product and brand descriptions for a premier French fashion house.
• an online retailer of luxury watches and accessories
• a web destination for bathroom and kitchen fixtures
• casino-focused info portals
• an upscale chain of international hotels

New York, NY, US

Edited B2B and B2C copy for this retail-focused real estate developer.Wrote advertorials for Beachwood Place, a Brookfield Properties mall in Beachwood, Ohio; see screenshots attached.

Rolling Meadows, IL, US

Proofread signage, emails and laid-out reports for the global insurance brokerage firm.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Edited keylines, copy and pitch decks, printer proofs, digital assets, and more for the myriad big-name clients of this renowned ad giant.

Chicago, IL, US

Wrote and edited evergreen descriptions of independent luxury hotels scattered worldwide to fit the Hyatt web template for a partnership project with Small Luxury Hotels of the World.Links lead to some of my writing clips from this project.

• Attended to everyday functioning of this academic bimonthly and nonprofit: provided system-user and formatting guidance to authors and reviewers; interfaced with the publisher's production, typesetting and marketing.
• Facilitated user assimilation during the transition to ScholarOne from an antiquated legacy system for submissions and peer review.
• Created and published weekly newsletters sent to 5,000-member distribution list; maintained associated contact lists.
• Curated daily social media content, alerting consumer behavior community to newly available articles and media mentions, and interacted with 4,900-user Twitter and 7,000-user Facebook followings via Hootsuite.
• Supported academic editors by facilitating their use of peer review systems as well as collecting and illustrating historical data.
• Refined and maintained submission and accepted-manuscript guidelines; customized guidelines in new submission system for optimal usability.

Chicago, IL, US

• Edited industry and company-specific reports detailing stock opinions and analysis.
• Performed rewrites as needed for conference materials and time-sensitive research.
• Queried draft content, such as ambiguous statements and inconsistencies in thought.
• Ensured equity research met the firm’s compliance standards before publication.
• Formatted conference books and reports using templates in Adobe InDesign.
• Published research to a password-protected sphere of the web using a proprietary CMS.

Chicago, IL, US

Sold snacks to and poured wine, beer and highballs for patrons of musical theater.

Riverwoods, IL, US

• Proofread the changes made by a trio of designers who specialized in quick-turn updates to already produced deliverables.
• Maintained order and access privileges for the company’s digital asset library, in which assets were organized according to a strict naming convention.
• Assisted in companywide promotion and troubleshooting of an online-routing system that allowed for stakeholder collaboration.

Copyedited and penned articles covering the film and ad production scene in the American Midwest.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Collected data, fact-checked news items and supported staff reporting on issues of race, poverty and income inequality, both in Chicago and across the nation.

B.A., English With A Creative Writing Emphasis

Journalism (General Education Classes)