Nina Taylor Kester Email & Phone Number

Walnut Creek, California, United States

Leading youth in critical thinking educational experiences with their heritage and religion.

San Francisco Bay Area

Run online courses for adults on comics and teach cartooning basics to Middle and High school students during the summer session.

Antioch, California, United States

Lead up to 25 students at a time in daily enrichment activities after school.

San Francisco Bay Area

•Creating overarching schedule of educational programs and individual classes and workshops•Developing pilot educational programs into annual multi-session seasonal programs with financial assistance•Managing a network of creative professionals as teachers/instructors•Mentoring and training High School, College and Graduate Interns through developing and executing personal projects•Planning and executing special events and working with high-level talent including J. Michael Straczinski and Glenn Keane in partnership with book publishers Harper Collins, First Second, and Scholastic and media companies like Netflix and Tapas.•Building community relationships in San Francisco and the Bay Area with schools and community-based organizations•Representing the museum at conventions in exhibiting and programming including development of exhibition space and programming proposals •Finding and applying for local, state and national grants•Maintaining the website and online store•Consulting on Exhibition content and developing supplemental educational materials and activities •Daily operations tasks•Training volunteers•Other tasks as necessary

Scheduling educational programmingDaily operations tasksPlanning and executing special eventsAssisting in maintaining the bookstoreFinding and applying for grantsetc.

Assistant Manager at the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore including museum event planning.

San Francisco Bay Area

Collaborate with nonprofits including the Queer Cultural Center and Cartoon Art Museum as incubators for a small press Expo for the National Queer Arts Festival as an annual event that brings together LGBTQAI+ creators and fans while also fundraising for the museum.

Colorist on "Peanuts" monthly comic stories including "Masked Marvel," "The Fast and the Furrious," "Accidental Candidate," etc.Lead colorist on the graphic novels "It's Tokyo Charlie Brown" and "The Beagle Has Landed" managing an assistant colorist.

Santa Clara, Ca

Artist Relations and RecruitingCommunity BuildingProduct DesignComic Industry Consulting

San Francisco Bay Area

- Relaunch and expand social media communities- Initiating pro-active PR and marketing campaigns

Santa Rosa, California

- Set up, designed, planned, grew, analyzed metrics and established best practices for new and thriving fan communities on Facebook (1 million), Twitter (15,000), YouTube, Foursquare and Google+.- Maintained a social content management and monitoring hub using Hootsuite.- Created and execute social campaigns to support brand initiatives and engage fans.- Prepared graphic assets for use on social media channels and established style guides.- Moderated website community features and social platforms.- Maintained brand standards on digital products with domestic and international licenses.

Greater New York City Area

- Expanded brand awareness through social media, online gorilla marketing and PR.- Managed production for a new website and ongoing updates. - Coordinated web and public relations teams. - Developed viral publicity strategy and wrote supporting materials.- Planned and executed highly targeted marketing initiatives.- Prepared graphic assets for marketing initiatives.

Greater New York City Area

- Coordinated administrative and creative efforts to support promotional needs.- Ran social media initiatives, did research, digital filing, copyediting, and recruited artists.- Designed web maps, booklets, pitch books, InDesign layouts, and digital lettering.

Greater New York City Area

- Designed, built and maintained company presence on MySpace, Facebook and YouTube. - Executed setup, sales and breakdown at industry conventions and administrative tasks.

Greater New York City Area

- Built community by initiating planned activities and involvement with students day to day. - Supported students in crisis and providing mediation to resolve student related issues.

Greater New York City Area

- Researched opportunities to influence and expand reach in marketing and publicizing kids comics through earned media on the web.- Engaged in the professional editing process, judged submissions, and wrote summaries and rejection letters.

Bfa, Cartooning And Illustration

Activities and Societies: Resident Assistant, President of the Cartoonist Alliance of the School of Visual Arts, Inkstains Magazine.

Business Administration And Management, General

Introduction to Business Ventures