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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 leadership including the Secretary of Transportation• Extensive daily coverage of issues around the initial IIJA and Build Back Better bills and their passage in Congress; the Inflation… Show more • 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 leadership including the Secretary of Transportation• 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; the Investing in America efforts and Bidenomics policies in infrastructure; extensive Congressional coverage; plus transportation topics like the ports supply chain crisis; East Palestine Ohio train derailment; the development of the electric vehicle revolution; Mountain Valley Pipeline controversies; effects of climate change and response to disaster events that damaged infrastructure; aviation safety concerns and travel disruptions; labor action in ports, rail, and aviation; and a wide range of other topics requiring an eye for rising trends and an adaptability to newly-developing issues• 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 online community manager for XPRIZE Communities, wearing many hats as I built engaging community spaces in Vanilla for designs on everything from rainforests and wildfires to food packaging and urban planning, recruiting experts to join and helping them to stay up to date on… Show more 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 online community manager for XPRIZE Communities, wearing many hats as I built engaging community spaces in Vanilla for designs on everything from rainforests and wildfires to food packaging and urban planning, recruiting experts to join and helping them to stay up to date on developments.• 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 teams• 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• Mastered engagement and build-out of Vanilla community forums, supporting research needs of new designs• Identified and recruited thousands of experts to join these communities, reaching out with MailChimp and closely monitoring activity & join rates• Wrote and composted weekly MailChimp newsletters to keep experts involved and informed on latest developments in these new and upcoming XPRIZE projects• Wore many hats for new Alumni Network project in 2020, taking on duties during COVID-19 staff reductions to re-engage previous competing teams from all past prizes, telling their stories internally and helping them develop, including Zoom webinar planning Show less

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 and image content to change the 'dusty' and 'old news' image many had at the time towards the Moon & Apollo., while also helping to tune up… Show more 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 and image content to change the 'dusty' and 'old news' image many had at the time towards the Moon & Apollo., while also helping to tune up the MyMoon presentation (with things like a new url). Show less

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 extensive copy work for both the "challenges" gamification and "stories" content sites.

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.

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.