Rick Brown Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tn, Us

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

• Co-own and operate handmade vegan soap business, coordinating soapmaking, promotional, and financial activities.• Handle all communications duties, including website maintenance and development, social media management, and promotional materials.• Design and create soaps.

Nashville, Tn

• Manage communications for website, email marketing, social media, and media relations; supervise assistant and interns as needed; and maintain promotional calendar and email database.• Implement marketing strategies, assist in planning of webinars, national conferences, and membership efforts, and monitor Google Analytics data for grant-supported deliverables and status reports.• Demonstrated strong initiative in supporting programs and outreach: led project to modernize website… Show more • Manage communications for website, email marketing, social media, and media relations; supervise assistant and interns as needed; and maintain promotional calendar and email database.• Implement marketing strategies, assist in planning of webinars, national conferences, and membership efforts, and monitor Google Analytics data for grant-supported deliverables and status reports.• Demonstrated strong initiative in supporting programs and outreach: led project to modernize website, implemented online best practices to boost event/webinar attendance, developed solutions to improve data tracking, and implemented digital storytelling initiatives to showcase the value of our organization to clinicians, consumers, and the public.• Assist in other initiatives: facilitate Advancement Committee, coordinate award and scholarship processes, present at conferences, and maintain online program directory. Show less

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Assisted professors by gathering literature, coding data, and proofreading documents.• Assisted with the planning, coordination, and execution of two academic conferences.• Co-wrote research with supervisor published in international journal Journalism Studies.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Covered public policy beat for community news agency as one of two fellows supported by the Milwaukee Public Policy Forum and Marquette University.• Utilized data-driven reporting to cover issues such as racial health disparities and minority entrepreneurship, earning mentions in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and Milwaukee Public Radio.• Produced two multimedia special reports on minority and youth driver’s license suspensions, one of which was featured on Milwaukee Public Radio… Show more • Covered public policy beat for community news agency as one of two fellows supported by the Milwaukee Public Policy Forum and Marquette University.• Utilized data-driven reporting to cover issues such as racial health disparities and minority entrepreneurship, earning mentions in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and Milwaukee Public Radio.• Produced two multimedia special reports on minority and youth driver’s license suspensions, one of which was featured on Milwaukee Public Radio (WUWM). Show less

Lebanon, Tn

Job Progression:Communications Coordinator / Magazine Editor: February 2012-July 2013Communications Coordinator: July 2011-February 2012Magazine / Profile Writer: January 2011-July 2011• Wrote, edited, and coordinated university publications, press releases, website content, and social media.• Edited alumni magazine, rising in two years from regular contributor to primary editor, handling all feature writing and copyediting duties as well as issue proposals.•… Show more Job Progression:Communications Coordinator / Magazine Editor: February 2012-July 2013Communications Coordinator: July 2011-February 2012Magazine / Profile Writer: January 2011-July 2011• Wrote, edited, and coordinated university publications, press releases, website content, and social media.• Edited alumni magazine, rising in two years from regular contributor to primary editor, handling all feature writing and copyediting duties as well as issue proposals.• Coordinated university social media channels, generating daily content across multiple platforms and rebooting the institution’s Twitter account, doubling its followers.• Wrote high-impact web content and releases that generated local and state-level media coverage.• Pioneered a series of multimedia student profiles incorporating video vignettes. Show less

Lebanon, Tn

Job Progression:Library Technical Assistant: August 2011-July 2013Library Assistant: January 2010-August 2011• Maintained catalog, ordered library materials, designed promotional materials, processed ILL requests, and served at circulation desk.• Became library's go-to person for graphic design and photography, creating The Vise Connection library newsletter as well as numerous bookmarks, pamphlets, posters, and logos.• Designed logo/program for state organization… Show more Job Progression:Library Technical Assistant: August 2011-July 2013Library Assistant: January 2010-August 2011• Maintained catalog, ordered library materials, designed promotional materials, processed ILL requests, and served at circulation desk.• Became library's go-to person for graphic design and photography, creating The Vise Connection library newsletter as well as numerous bookmarks, pamphlets, posters, and logos.• Designed logo/program for state organization Tenn-Share’s DataFest 2012 conference.• Built reputation for gracious customer service, earning numerous patron compliments and emails.• Went above and beyond as cataloger, processing nearly all of the library's backlog in two years. Show less

Mt. Juliet, Tn

• Reported on city events and other general assignments for weekly city newspaper.• Developed reputation as a dependable, effective writer and photographer, handling photography on several special events and subbing for school board meetings.

Lebanon, Tn

• Edited, designed, and wrote for student-run weekly newspaper at Cumberland University.• Coordinated staff of writers and columnists and reported to faculty liaison, shepherding publication from design to distribution.• Wrote two weekly columns and miscellaneous copy as needed.

Lebanon, Tn

• Performed various clerical tasks and paperwork duties, keeping records, grading papers, creating quizzes, and handling student paper proposals.• Earned numerous compliments from supervisor, including being called the best student assistant he'd had.

Master Of Arts, Communication (Specialization: Mass Communication), 4.0

Activities and Societies: Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service • Selected as one of two Public Policy Reporting Fellows (2013-2014).

Certificate, Digital Storytelling

Activities and Societies: Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service • Studied principles of digital storytelling and multimedia design.

Bachelor Of Arts, English, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Alpha Chi, Sigma Tau Delta, Cumberland Chronicle (newspaper), Lyre of the Phoenix (literary journal) • Graduated.

A.S., University Studies, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa • Graduated Summa Cum Laude. • Graphic design work exhibited in 2007 Vol. State Student Art.