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Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

-Collaborate with leadership to craft a longer-term vision for organization’s media relations work.-Work with legal and policy teams to create all external messaging and graphics across channels including press statements, toolkits, web posts, action alerts, explainers, threads, and posts for social media, email, website and news media.-Manage and execute rapid response as well as communications advocacy campaigns to support organization’s strategic litigation and policy advocacy on racial justice and anti-Muslim racism, abolition, immigrant rights, state surveillance, free speech, and religious freedoms. Litigation included: Muslim Ban, religious freedom in prison, Afghan detention conditions, FOIAs, anti-Muslim racism at the southern border, FBI targeting, pro-Palestine campus resistance, etc.-Work with coalition partners to receive feedback and develop external messaging, media strategy and toolkits for our network to use.-Organizational point for media inquiries and pitching, media training with legal and policy teams as well as key partners on joint statements-Pitch national newsrooms on breaking and feature stories that further our narrative justice work-Work with policy and legal teams as well as key partners to develop their thought leadership, ghostwrite op-eds and pitch editors for placement

Houston, Texas, United States

-Design and implement O2O organizing strategy for campaigns—Gig Workers Rising, Silicon Valley Rising, Silicon Valley Rising Action—building a base of immigrant, working-class, and BIPOC folx. -Organize appworkers across northern California and move them up a ladder of engagement; develop worker organizing raps, textbanks, phonebanks, targeted ad campaigns and engage with workers online in social media groups.-Organizational CRM (Nationbuilder, EveryAction/VAN) super-admin, develop leadership & staff training materials and facilitate organizer training workshops-Support accurate data collection for publicly-funded COVID-19 Assistance Navigation program for working-class people in Santa Clara County -Develop and implement paid and organic social media strategy to target app workers online -Develop worker leader pipeline with ladder of engagement with data tracking-Organizational owner of digital organizing toolkit: test, setup, train staff/volunteers to use EveryAction tools, P2P texting, relational organizing, online advocacy, and other tools, provide back-end and emergency support, post-event data cleanup and manual data uploads when needed-Develop tagging conventions, build tracking systems, create workflows and automations, manage organizer assignments & follow-ups-Use Race-Class Narrative framework to develop messaging, talking points, posts, petitions, emails, texts and other basebuilding communications primarily on Gig Workers Rising campaign and, as needed, on Silicon Valley Rising Action c(4) campaigns-New Tech: Supported development and beta-tested first-of-its-kind relational worker organizing app called Workers First California in tandem with United for Respect and key partners.

Houston, Texas Area

-Serve in senior leadership as the sole communicator for our statewide local, representing 6,000 janitors and hospital workers while organizing thousands more security guards and airport workers into their union-Point for media inquiries and pitching, ran media training for worker leaders, leadership & labor allies-Prep workers to serve as campaign spokespeople and share their stories with elected officials and reporters-Coordinate with organizing directors and organizers on P2P campaigns that move workers to take action.-Develop and implement earned, paid and social media strategies to support SEIU Texas internal member & external organizing campaigns for Justice for Janitors, Airport Workers United, Stand for Security, and Healthcare for All-Write talking points, LOEs, op-eds, fact sheets, press kits, leaflets, newsletters, original content for emails, blogs post, social media posts and online EveryAction petitions-Monitor media coverage of campaigns and make recommendations to improve coverage-Event management: message, visuals, materials, media outreach, photo/video and agenda-Project manager for organizational website transition; manage vendors, create and catalogue content, facilitate stakeholder meetings

Greater Denver Area

Greater Denver Area

Greater Denver Area

●Find and break news on tight daily deadlines●Develop outside-the-box news coverage that goes beyond the basics●Condense complex news stories, including politics and litigation, into easy to read stories that flow●Produce longform features, news commentary and explanatory front cover print and digital content●Juggle multiple short-term and long-term story deadlines●Collaborate with editors on multiple rounds of edits●Create accurate and clean copy●Engage in weekly newsroom meetings, pitch timely story ideas●Communicate with editors on status of long-term projects and pitch future projects●Beats: civil rights, education, elections, energy, environment, politics

Pearland | Friendswood

●Break business, local government and education news●Manage an editorial/design team covering the cities of Friendswood and Pearland, the latter of which was named the seventh fastest-growing city in the country, according to a 2015 U.S. Census Bureau report●Plan, visualize and manage editorial and graphic production from inception to press for monthly news periodical with more than 72,000 print circulation●Contribute to companywide and metrowide shared content and special editions; CI has 22 newspapers statewide with a total circulation of 1.7 million and about 1 million monthly page views ●Manage workflow for design and editorial; juggle multiple hard deadlines for editorial and design edits●Edit all stories for AP style, facts and flow●Upload print content to website, schedule posts to social media platforms●Cultivate Facebook followers for Pearland/Friendswood, which grew by nearly 50 percent to-date ●Oversee and curate PLF homepage

The Woodlands, Texas

•Education, real estate, business reporter in Montgomery County (The Woodlands & Lake Communities)•Identify, develop and maintain source relationships on local, regional and state level•Coordinate art/graphics•Attend monthly LEA board meetings; analyze and explain funding decisions to taxpayers•Analyze and keep abreast of policy and regulatory changes from local, state and federal governmental agencies •Maintain daily, weekly and long-term deadlines for special projects, online and print coverage•Interview C-suite and senior executives, elected officials, community leaders and residents

Houston, Texas Area

●Report breaking business news stories from several news wires for daily email newsletter●Aggregate business news stories across industries, including energy, retail, hospitality real estate, law and finance●Copy edit for both weekly edition and monthly special sections●Create People on the Move (talent), BizVoice (op-ed, polls and social media elements) and Retail weekly sections, and maintain all calendar events●Manage company’s social media accounts – Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin – and schedule hourly posts. Tracked audience engagement, traffic and growth via Bitly, Omniture, Sprout Social and native analytic tools.●Create digital story packages and galleries●Upload weekly print product and special sections to web content manager, CMS●Write online editorial for annual industry events, such as Landmark, 40 Under 40, Best Places to Work, and more●Manage freelance columnists and assign art to photographers ●Original reporting for special sections and retail page for print●Interview C-suite and senior executives across industries

Houston, Tx

●Historical and public document research ●Work with editors on special projects●Cover range of stories across major Houston industries, including energy, finance and real estate on strict deadline●Interview C-suite and senior executives across industries for weekly and special publications●Create content for award-winning Houston Ship Channel Centennial special publication●Copy edit proofs

Houston, Texas Area

● Annually appointed to serve a temporary, five-month term ●Develop overarching theme for the annual University of Houston graduate magazine for distribution to thousands of spring graduates and their families ● Oversee the development of a 68 page annual magazine ●Coordinate between editorial, design and photo desks, wrangled writers, managed editorial and production deadlines, edited stories, directed design team through layout, made fine-toothed design and layout changes, and contributed content ● Manage project and tracked deadlines from inception to completion ● Flip through the online edition at uh.edu/csm/productions or Houstonian Magazine online.

● Editor and senior news reporter generating stories for four-day a week print and daily web production ● Design front page and news section layout for print production ● Upload print content and web exclusives to WordPress, manage web content ● Edit stories for flow, facts and AP Style ● Create and manage editorial and art budgets, work with art and design team on requests ● Train new reporters, serve as liaison between the newspaper and journalism students

Worked in the Life + Arts section covering the arts, culture and student organizations across campus while maintaining my Blaffer Art Museum beat

General assignments for Life + Arts and News sections