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New York, New York

Published 3-5 blogs a day without editorial oversight as the Nights and Weekends Editor. As Staff Reporter, duties included daily blogging, collaborative projects, and weekly feature pitching. As News Editor, assign and edit a range of articles written by a team of staff reporters on a daily basis. As Special Projects Editor, I developed staff, wrote and formulated features and packages as well as covered various duties of the deputy, features, and managing editor positions that were never backfilled.

New York, Ny

Founding editor of online publication focused on life and culture through a global lens. Duties included setting editorial agenda and tone, managing freelancers and production, monthly budgeting, writing, formulating and assigning ideas for content, working in tandem with design department for delivering the final presentation, seeding pieces for distribution and more.

New York, Ny

Wrote 5­-8 blog pieces daily, contributed photography, wrote original feature articles, collaborated with the video and street team, managed and edited five recurring features a week.

Brooklyn, Ny

Handled fundraising, event planning, video editing, artist relations, ongoing series formulation and implementation, press releases, curating and running booths at art fairs, social media stategy, article contributions, sponsorships and collaborations, partnerships, grant writing, graphic design and web development, financial strategy and continuing program development.

New York, Miami

Involved in various curatorial projects that attempt to push the limits in new media, presentation and distribution methods

New York, Ny

Managed all facets of some of the most high volume retail locations in Walgreens corporation. Duties included: Hiring, Scheduling, Continued Maintenance and Improvement, Organizational Strategy, Employee Relations, Daily Meetings, Sales Analysis, Merchandising, Accounting, Invoicing, Ordering, Maintenance, Customer Relations, Vendor Relations and Insurance Relations.

Brooklyn, Ny

Wrote, Produced, Directed, Edited and Photographed feature film entitled The Villains. An independent production fiscally sponsored by The New York Foundation for the Arts. The Villains follows the progress of a young political group who want to change the system through the use of Social Media tools and new media production. The Villains shows them trying to organize a meaningful direct democracy and engage the public through group exercises. Despite their utopian beliefs in the power of technology to connect everyone, age old human struggles arise and threaten to tear them apart.

Los Angeles, Ca

Reviewed new releases, scouted and profiled up and coming Brooklyn-based bands, interviewed artists.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business/Commerce, General

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Digital Media