Miranda Schmidt Email & Phone Number

Portland, OR, US

• Developed brand strategies, guest journeys, and experiential branding for hospitality and place-making clients.
• Developed names and naming architectures.
• Worked with design and copy teams to create brand identities.
• Created presentations and presented work to clients.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Developed agency brand strategy offerings, substantially increasing company revenue from strategy work.
• Led collaborative teams to create excellent work on tight deadlines.
• Presented work to clients and managed creation of presentations.
• Created brand strategy for large and small companies, organizations, schools, and nonprofits.
• Created names, naming systems, taglines, packaging copy, web copy, and social media copy for brands and products.
• Managed content strategy… Show more

Portland, Oregon Area

• Designed and taught beginning through advanced creative writing courses as well as academic and technical communications courses.
• Designed inclusive and equitable hybrid, online, and traditional face-to-face writing courses.
• Collaborated with fellow faculty on curriculum development and data driven assessment projects.
• Provided writing instruction through extensive written feedback and student conferences.
• Participated in workshops, conferences, and campus… Show more
• Participated in workshops, conferences, and campus groups.

• Wrote web copy, blogs, product descriptions, print ads, and more.
• Worked with a variety of brands, organizations, and businesses in both private and nonprofit sectors.
• Helped clients to develop a clear brand voice that resonated with their audience.

• Provided developmental editing, line editing, and proofreading for book-length work.
• Assisted authors in developing writing for publication.
• Curated and edited anthologies for nonprofits like 826 Seattle and Lambda Literary.
• Provided professional proofreading services for clients.
• Managed blogs for various businesses and organizations.
• Created marketing materials for small businesses and nonprofits.

• Designed and taught online creative writing courses in fiction and creative nonfiction, including Speculative Memoir and Writing Feminist Fairy Tales.
• Provided extensive revision-oriented feedback and editorial suggestions on student writing.

Greater Seattle Area

• Designed and taught writing and literature courses to community college students.
• Implemented strategies for engaging students with a wide variety of writing/educational/linguistic backgrounds in writing-based courses.
• Provided feedback on student writing.
• Led writing workshops.
• Conferenced with students about their work.
• Advised students on majors, coursework, and strategies for college success.

Greater Seattle Area

• Designed and taught freshmen composition and beginning creative writing courses.
• Implemented strategies for engaging students with a wide variety of writing/educational/linguistic backgrounds in writing-based courses.
• Provided feedback on student writing.
• Led writing workshops.
• Conferenced with students about their work.
• Advised students on majors, coursework, and strategies for college success.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Collaborated with fellow TAs to provide individualized support to college students.
• Advised students on study skills, course and major planning, and time management.
• Assisted professors in teaching undergraduate composition and literature courses.
• Led break-out discussion groups.
• Provided feedback on student writing.
• Conferenced with students about their work.

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Creative Writing

Critical Thesis: Haunting the Present Tense: Novels of Uncanny Grief Creative Thesis: Novel

Future Of Branding Week, Branding

Ma, English

Thesis: Place and Consciousness in the Works of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf

Ba, English, Theatre

Certificate, Classical Acting

Year Abroad, English, Theatre