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Bristol, Ct, Us

Running the day-to-day of the website, editing content, and helping implement strategies.

Sacramento, California, Us

• Leveraging reporter and videographer content on- and off-platform to build reader relationships.• Working daily with ten newsrooms across the Southeast including The Charlotte Observer, News & Observer in Raleigh, and McClatchy publications in Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

• Working rapidly and communicating fluidly to maximize the flawless execution of breaking news• Coordinated promotion plans for "Carruth" which won Sports Illustrated's 2018 Best Podcast.• Worked closely with visual team to produce, "Brooklyn: How a Black community was erased from uptown Charlotte” and sat on the panel for community screenings of the documentary, which earned the Observer its first-ever Midsouth Emmy nomination.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Responsible for growing engagement and followers on BMGF social media channels. • Led social strategy on assigned campaign moments, including overall approach, relevant ad buys, and working with campaign leads on sourcing the right content for campaigns.• Mapped out day-to-day postings and social plans for assigned moments, coming up with ideas for execution and producing content in partnership with content leads. This included generating, repurposing, or sourcing vendors for content.• Created and updated the Foundation’s social media playbook, given to new communications team members as an introduction to our issues, best practices, and points of contact across our global team.• Worked with employee communications on employee advocacy efforts on social media, including training, and hosting Gates Socials.• Published a weekly social media note to contextualize our failures and success.• Held recurring 1:1s with our analytics team and Program Advocacy Communications leads to gather information, move forward on campaigns and projects, and verify content to be published• Managed our vendor relationship with Opal, including training and user seats.

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Part of a DMN staff that was a 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Breaking News Reporting.• Developed and executed social media strategies for DMN flagship accounts.• Created GIFs, memes, cards, videos and other materials to promote our reporting on social.• Created daily reports and regular training for reporters and editors.• Second in command on an audience team of eight.• “Player-coach” leading a desk of six homepage curators/social producers.

Dallas, Tx, Us

• The sole social media producer for one of the largest newsrooms in the country.• Co-managed flagship accounts with marketing, identifying areas for audience growth.• Occasionally wrote stories for DMN's lifestyle and entertainment vertical, Guide Live.

Fayetteville, North Carolina, Us

• Curated Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, and Vine for FO-owned publications: The Fayetteville Observer, 910Preps, Elite Magazine, Sunday Life, and The Sandspur.• Led newsroom social media training.• Coordinated with reporters to take advantage of timely social media opportunities.• Worked with advertising and editors to identify areas for audience growth through social.

Fayetteville, North Carolina, Us

• Wrote lifestyle and enterprise stories with a focus on unique, under-reported communitiesfor Life and Local sections, as well as Weekender and Sunday Life magazines.• Creator and sole contributor to FO’s popular daily music blog, Press Play.

Fayetteville, North Carolina, Us

• Designed and proofed pages nightly while working with staffers on packaging larger, long-term projects for print and online.• Edited stories for print and online. Updated online centerpieces and content nightly.• Worked on the Local & State desk on weekends.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Contributed features, columns, and reviews, daily, to CL’s music blog, qcvibes.com.• Shot, edited, and uploaded original video content.• Gathered and entered music listings for all Metro Charlotte venues.

• Wrote sports and feature stories.• Responsible for organizing and coordinating designers, creating print design style.• Shot, captured, and edited video packages to complement print stories.• One of 24 Black collegiate journalists selected from a national pool.

Yes, Journalism And Mass Communication; Electronic Media

High School Diploma