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• Produce overnight Daily News Briefings for the U.S. Department of Transportation
• Collect, rank, and summarize in narrative form all of the day's most relevant news media coverage about USDOT projects, new topics and crises emerging as key areas of focus, and the efforts of DOT and Administration.
• Extensive daily coverage of issues around the initial IIJA and Build Back Better bills and their passage in Congress; the Inflation… Show more
• Extensive daily coverage of issues around the initial IIJA and Build Back Better bills and their passage in Congress; the Inflation Reduction Act's development, challenges, passage, and the EU response; the CHIPS Act.
• Utilize tools like Meltwater, TVEyes, Sendy, and other platforms in tandem to produce daily reports on tight deadlines overnight, and with a high standard of precision
• Help lead media analyst team, starting from the issuing of the contract in July 2021 and helping to onboard and train many new hires and set consistency standards for collection and writing style Show less

• After covering the Google Lunar XPRIZE from 2012 through the end of the competition as social media manager, blogger, and content curator (collecting news on the competing teams and sharing their stories), became an.
• Wrote dozens of blogs and internal round-ups summarizing the best new items from competition to send robots to the Moon (2012-2019)
• Employed a content strategy that matched our space-news style to create high engagement and organic growth rates on our Google Lunar XPRIZE social media channels
• Prepped major documentary partners on the best stories and characters from the competition to feature in their film. Also assisted in publication of both this YouTube web series and regular Google Hangout events with.
• Also managed social media content XPRIZE brand, covering innovation topics and further utilizing advanced scheduling tools like GAIN and HootSuite
• In 2019, became an online community manager for new XPRIZE Communities project

Freelance

MyMoon was a NASA-fueled project built to drive excitement and discussion about the Moon. I employed digital strategy to try and reach not only space audiences, but more mainstream audiences as well, finding particular success with Instagram outreach. I used analytics to dig into what's really happening on our social sites, and contributed fresh blogging.

Portland, Oregon Area

Contributed content strategy, copywriting, and UX for a sustainability digital campaign and interactive site, for a major science museum. I engaged in competitive analysis and research into emerging media (QR codes, mobile, gamification) to hep build the project; applied user flow charts and survey analysis for construction of the site; and contributed.

Certificate In Digital Marketing Strategies, Digital Marketing; Web Development

Certificate program in digital marketing and web development. Year and a half program; real-world, hands-on projects with instructors from.

Bachelor'S, Urban Planning

Primary interest was in urban design; essentially, UX for cities. How and why people use public spaces; see: "The Social Life of Small.