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Portland, Or, Us

Portland, Oregon Area

Portland, Oregon Area

Portland, Or

Portland, Oregon Area

Manage and designed online content management systems using WordPress and Google Drive platforms to solicit and organize portfolio reviewer contact information, specializations and availability and schedule artist placement for 1,000 in-person portfolio reviews annually.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Worked effectively with internal teams and partner organizations to execute a four-day national conference held in rotating cities throughout the US with 1600 attendees, 40+ general sessions, daily plenary sessions, exhibits hall featuring 70+ exhibitors, 1,000 onsite portfolio reviews, award ceremonies and special events within the local communities.• Increased SPE’s presence in the photography community through strategic communications outreach, networking and member retention efforts expanding the membership 2 7% since 2007. Increased conference attendance from 853 to 1,604 attendees from 2009 to 2013. • Managed registration for SPE’s membership, national conference and eight regional conferences in a customized online database averaging 4,500 transactions annually. Supervised registration and portfolio review onsite conference staff of five. • Streamlined the administration of:– eight SPE grant and award opportunities– membership, conference, portfolio review and volunteer registration procedures– conference proposal and peer review rankings and transitioned all processes from paper to online processing.• Tracked and reported event metrics consistently raising event profits while simultaneously streamlining processes to come in below budgetary guidelines.

London, United Kingdom

Volunteered with a mobile community for six weeks of sustainability outreach and education. • Visited schools, youth groups and organic farms conducting educational workshops covering energy, food, water usage, fair trade and transportation. • Initiated dialogue addressing individual accountability , community building and empowering individuals to make informed choices toward a more sustainable and equitable future. • Demonstrated commitment to low impact living by traveling to each community on bicycle from Wales to Scotland and conducting bicycle maintenance and repair clinics with residents. • Focused on social justice and environmental issues and emphasized education through skill share, collaboration, and discussion. The Otesha Project has chapters in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. www.otesha.org.uk

St. Charles, Il

Organized programming for an independent art gallery. • Managed exhibition installation and coordination of gallery receptions and offsite art fairs. • Researched and curated themed exhibitions featuring contemporary Chicago artists and cultivated relationships with artists, patrons and colleagues. • Developed copy and design of promotional materials. • Produced detailed exhibition records and condition reports for artwork shown at the gallery.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Assisted curatorial staff in compiling educational materials for upcoming exhibitions, maintained local artist and library holdings databases and special projects as assigned. • Participated in onsite coordination of Spencer Tunick’s Cleveland installation and devised a system for distribution of 2,000 special edition photographs for participants. • Participated in inventory and condition reporting for traveling exhibitions organized by MOCA Cleveland.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Art History

Graduate Coursework, Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management