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Austin, Texas, United States

Assist the Association with outreach and engagement of its members through high-quality editorial and marketing materials.• Research, write, and edit articles, news releases, white papers, and ghost-written columns on behalf of Association experts with the goal of informing and engaging its members. • Create and execute communications plans in support of two internal clients, ensuring content is distributed on time and to client specifications.• Act as a liaison for internal clients, providing project management support, shepherding design and marketing projects through to completion on deadline and on budget.• Collaborate with editorial team to coordinate and plan content for the Association.

Crafted high-caliber, consumer-focused content for Patch brand partners generating high CTR for assigned partners, including FTD, Newrez, Thumbtack and RVshare.• Assisted with briefing materials, providing input into creative and messaging for assigned partners ensuring alignment with marketing strategies and partners' brand guidelines.• Coordinated content creation, management and distribution across assigned partners ensuring content was executed correctly according to best practices.• Supported the branded content manager and branded content team in the creation of lead nurturing communications to support client recruitment and retainment.

• Contributed stories related to entrepreneurship, business, and technology. • Crafted editorials keeping in mind tone and voice. • Worked remotely using Trello to communicate with editorial staff.

Austin, Texas, United States

Recruited to increase the non-profit’s visibility, donations and volunteer engagement through earned media, social media, blogs, email marketing and PR efforts.• Pitched and crafted stories and content for dissemination on multiple channels. • Planned, organized, and executed bi-monthly newsletter, reaching more than 30,000 readers through direct mail and Constant Contact.• Executed marketing campaigns using the organization’s social media, blog posts, and news releases.• Increased interactions on Facebook and launched an Instagram page.• Managed nonprofit’s WordPress CMS, coding with HTML as needed.

Austin, Texas Area

Founding Chemistry Teacher at KIPP Austin Brave High School.• Applied data to drive and inform instruction.• Incorporated technology and differentiation in lesson planning.• Selected as teacher mentor for 2018-19 school year.

West Charlotte High School, Charlotte, Nc

Recruited through Teach for America, a highly selective educational equity organization, to serve students attending the Title 1 high school. Taught Earth and Environmental Science to more than 100 students living in the underserved community, as a teacher in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District. • Mentored 120 low-performing minority and low-income students at West Charlotte High School, a Title I school, meeting expected growth on the 2015-16 Earth Science State End of Course Assessment.• Collaborated as a School Leadership Team member, enacting programs to meet the school’s aggressive improvement plan. • Incorporated education-based data analysis, assessing student progress toward mastery of standards.• Exceeded expectations for student performance with an 80 percent pass rate in 2016-17.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Correspondent for the daily newspaper. • Wrote lifestyle articles and contributed feature stories.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Selected as a teacher-leader with Teach for America and inducted as a 2014 Corps Member in the Charlotte North Carolina Corps. Successfully completed two-years of service with the organization, which places teachers in high-need communities and schools.• Inducted as an alumna of Teach for America in May 2016. • Honored for two years of service through AmeriCorps. • Participated in 2014 Summer Institute held over the course of five weeks in Tulsa, OK.

Dupage County

Successfully launched Naperville.Patch.com, overseeing CMS management, community engagement and content creation for the hyper-local news site. • Crafted a variety of content, including writing feature stories, lists, social media, blogs, aggregated content and curating for newsletters. • Coordinated marketing and communications campaigns using social media including Facebook and Twitter.• Promoted to Business Engagement Editor for DuPage County sites, orchestrating editorial plans and content creation for 11 websites.• Vet and oversee freelance writers.

Chicago, Illinois

Spearheaded planning, design, and content writing for a series of hyper-local news sites intended to connect with readers, encouraging UGC and increasing local news engagement.• Directed a team of six, overseeing editorial management, content writing, and CMS management.• Delegated and assigned stories to reporters, overseeing editing, and publication of content.• Planned and executed marketing strategy to increase user and business engagement.• Integrated analytics data to inform editorial decision-making.• Crafted stories for publication whenever necessary.

Greater Denver Area

Strengthened the editorial team as one of the founding members of the start up hybrid print and digital publication, helping to create editorial tone and guide content direction.• Generated content, managed and designed three print and digital publications.• Executed strategic recruitment of bloggers and community members who created User Generated Content.

Durango, Colorado

Recruited to write hard news, feature and lifestyle articles for the newspaper located near the Four Corners in Southwest Colorado. Reporting beats included education, agriculture, business and philanthropy. • First Place award in Agriculture Writing: The Colorado Press Association 2004.• Second Place and Honorable Mention awards in Education Writing: The Colorado Associated Press Editors & Reporters Association 2004.• The Society of Professional Journalists Colorado - Excellence in Journalism Awards Division A 2004: First Place in General Reporting; First Place in Science, Environment, Agriculture, Medical Reporting News or Feature; Second and Third Place in Education Reporting News or Feature.

Montrose, Co

Pursued news stories related to local business and city government. Covered government meetings.• Awarded Second Place: News Feature Writing, 2002, The Society of Professional Journalists Colorado – Excellence in Journalism Awards.

M.A., Print Journalism

Chips Quinn Scholar • Awarded a paid scholarship and general assignment internship at The News Leader, Staunton, Va. •John Holden Graduate.

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science And Government