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•Developing national communications campaign strategies to elevate Healthier Generation’s brand, advance and scale programmatic goals, and strengthen funder relationships with partners such as Merck & Co., CVS Health Foundation and Labcorp•Creating and executing campaigns and narratives that are designed to reach and engage a wide variety of audiences and historically marginalized communities•Building media relationships across family, parenting, education outlets with an emphasis on BIPOC communities•Supporting national and local media relations and thought leadership efforts, including promotion strategy, writing and editing•Serving as lead in drafting written communications materials that reflect culturally relevant audience insights and inclusive communications

Houston, Texas, United States

•Oversees, edits, and contributes to the Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network, which includes Momentum, Policywise, Progress Notes, and The Stitch•Maintains and curates the College-wide blog editorial schedule•Collaborates with constituencies and departments throughout the College to assist with website development•Edits public-facing web content to ensure institutional standards and meet departmental goals•Manages the College's intranet and internal websites•Collaborates with the College's media relations and marketing teams to identify and curate content for the College-wide blog•Works with communications leadership to identify priorities for promoting content externally•Tracks and reports blog traffic and analytics•Assists with social media content and College-wide newsletter distribution as necessary•Serves as a resource for departments, centers and student groups interested in developing blog content

Houston, Texas Area

•Managing, editing and contributing to the Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network•Maintaining the College-wide blog and social media editorial schedule to plan content accordingly•Developing, writing and refining departmental and healthcare web content•Managing internal and external web pages•Collaborating with the College's media relations and marketing teams to identify and curate social media and content for the College-wide blog•Working with communications leadership to identify priorities for promoting content externally•Tracking social media analytics and blog traffic•Serving as a resource for departments, centers and student groups managing Baylor-affiliated social media accounts

Houston, Texas Area

• Coordinating event plans and advising student staff• Managing communications plans• Assisting with development of new campus sustainability plan• Speaking at select campus presentations and speech commitments• Spearheading and managing the UH sustainability website• Tracking communication and outreach statistics

• Managing, writing and editing the sustainability blog • Compiling, coding and editing the monthly sustainability newsletter• Sending out email marketing blasts, building our distribution lists and assisting with event coordination• Speaking to campus and community members about sustainability• Managing the UH Office of Sustainability’s social media accounts, including: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube

Houston, Texas Area

• Coordinated ABC-13 community events such as forums, the ABC-13 Blood Drive, the ABC-13 E-Cycling drive and the Your Future Starts Now Drive• Booked show guests for four ABC-13 community affairs TV programs: Crossroads, Viva Houston, CityView, and Visions• Recorded video teasers for community affairs programming and promoted via ABC-13 social media accounts• Managed social media for community TV shows• Conceptualized and creatied content for ABC-13 community affairs social media campaigns; specifically, Black History Month, the ABC-13 Blood Drive and the ABC-13 E-Cycling Drive

• Recorded audio at local events for news stories• Wrote and edited news scripts for on-air production • Produced news stories that were published on HoustonPublicMedia.org

Houston,Texas

Participated in the University of Houston's student news magazine, Video Workshop. Conducted on-camera interviews with high profile figures such as KPRC anchor Dominique Sachse and retired astronaut Dr. Bonnie Dunbar. Wrote scripts for on-air pieces and contributed to production meetings. Hosted the final show of the season.

Houston, Texas

Contributed to the print and online editions of STRYVE Magazine, a publication focused on the betterment of high school students and young adults. Was heavily involved in the development and implementation of STRYVE’s social media platform.