• Write articles for magazines (print and online), newspapers, and books on diverse topics ranging from relationships to fitness to health and wellness.• Managed advice column at Fazed.com, an online magazine for 15 to 25 year-olds; received questions via email, edited text, added links, and uploaded questions and responses to the website. • Served as New York Editor of Boheme Verite, an online arts and culture magazine, where I wrote, edited, added hypertext links, and uploaded articles to the site.• Contributing writer for Beauty Addict Magazine (beautyaddictmag.com), an interactive beauty magazine dedicated to informing readers about the latest in fitness, fashion and cosmetics.• Wrote Psychology Today fitness & beauty blog, Shake Your Beauty (blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/shake-your-beauty).• Contributing writer for Minneapolis Picks (minneapolispicks.com), a subscription-driven weekly publication covering local boutiques, fitness studios, restaurants, and more.• Published two books: What Doesn't Kill You: A Mini Memoir about Suffering and Surviving a Brain Bleed; and From Loss to Healing: Personal Tales about the First Year of Bereavement

- Develop all marketing and sales development materials for Augeo and its 4 subsidiary business units (Augeo Incent, Augeo Benefits, Augeo Loyalty and PerksCard). - Manage employee newsletter process from developing monthly editorial calendar, to requesting and receiving content and images from business unit leads, to editing and composing monthly newsletter and distributing to all employees.- Oversee RFP response process, from pulling together information, to composing company response for submittal.

• Designed website wireframes, and then built and maintained portions of the Life Time Fitness website using the social business software platform, Jive. • Wrote and edited articles for the Life Time Fitness website (http://lifetimefitness.mylt.com) on topics such as yoga, Pilates, weight loss, personal training, and assessments, to name a few.• Created marketing copy for company-wide promotions such as “3 Personal Training Sessions for the Price of 1”, and worked with media to design campaign collateral for the website.• Studied web analytics to determine types of content, site layouts, interest areas, and promotional packages that were most attractive to viewers; utilized data strategically to draw and retain traffic.• Worked with national business owners of Life Time Fitness Personal Training, Weight Loss, and Assessments and Testing interest areas to ensure sites properly promoted and effectively relayed their intended brand messages.• Utilized social media outlets, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and online message boards to promote and increase traffic to the site.

• Researched counterintuitive and human interest-based psychological studies. • Pitched article ideas and wrote pieces for both print magazine and website (psychologytoday.com).• Interviewed researchers and composed articles on their findings. • Turned heavy scientific studies into straightforward and polished prose comprehensible to the average layperson.

• Responsible for organizing the Board of Trustees’ planned annual giving program, designed to raise over $2,000,000 to support the world-renowned biomedical research institute’s 75 laboratories.• Composed all donation requests and acknowledgement letters; maintained trustee charitable giving data; calculated final contributions at the end of the fiscal year. • Created trustee booklets consisting of board of trustee biographical information; disseminated to department heads, trustees and other essential sections within the university.• Planned and coordinated “The 50th Anniversary of the Discovery of DNA Gala” at the Waldorf-Astoria, attended by over 1,000 people.• Orchestrated trustee dinners, trustee nominating committee meetings, cultivation events and celebratory luncheons/dinners honoring donors and past/current Presidents of the university; composed all printed materials for these events.• Promoted twice during the course of one year.