Marissa Bader Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, MN, US

• 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.

- 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• Promoted twice during the course of one year.

Ba In Journalism, Journalism, English

Activities and Societies: • Graduated with Distinction (GPA 3.65) • Dean’s List, 1999—2002 • Founder’s Day Award, 2000—2002 • Phi Eta.

Master'S Degree, Marriage And Family Therapy