Rachel Larue Email & Phone Number

Reno, Nevada, United States

Remote

• While being promoted multiple times at Bixal, I’ve worked with an array of internal and external stakeholders at federal agencies to create highly effective communication strategies. I also led a team working on.
• Work with federal agencies, including Department of HHS, GSA, DoE, USAID.
• Extensively research, cultivate content ideas and produce content for various newsletters, social media… Show more While being promoted multiple times at Bixal, I’ve worked with an array of internal and external.
• Extensively research, cultivate content ideas and produce content for various newsletters, social media posts/plans and blogs.
• Support social media strategy and content development across various social media and online platforms.
• Prepare high-quality content that communicates strategic messages and themes to attract, engage and inform key internal and external audiences to achieve the agency's vision.

Remote

Remote

Fairfax, Virginia, United States

Fort Meade, VA

• As a web content manager for the Department of Defense website, I thrived in a high intensity environment gathering news, editing copy and photographs, and posting releases and other publications. Job Duties:
• Edited and published content including headlines, summaries of news articles, features, as well as press releases, photo captions, photo essays, special reports and other content in an accurate and concise method using.
• Ensured correct voice… Show more As a web content manager for the Department of Defense website, I thrived in a high intensity environment gathering news, editing copy and photographs, and posting releases and other.
• Ensured correct voice, spelling, punctuation, grammar and adherence to AP Style Guide and DoD Style Guide.
• Researched and created content for special reports for large events and anniversaries.
• Researched, created, edited and published photo essays, ensuring that images meet quality standards outlined by established guidelines. Included generating and writing engaging, accurate photo captions and using.

Contractor- Chitra Productions

• As the official photographer of Arlington National Cemetery, I was not only responsible for visually telling the story of the cemetery, but also the distribution of that story through various products and social media.
• Coordinated with the social media manager and others in public affairs to visually communicate messages online on the website, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and in print in reports, brochures, handouts.
• Coordinated with the social media manager and others in public affairs to visually communicate messages online on the website, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and in print in reports, brochures, handouts.
• Coordinated with social media manager to plan social media strategies and to expand audiences through various platforms (Instagram-2,000+ Followers, Flickr, Facebook-500,000+ Followers and Twitter 23.4K Followers)
• Photograph ceremonies, funerals, events and portraits.
• Photograph high-profile official visitors to the cemetery, including the president, foreign heads of state, U.S. and foreign military figures, celebrities, and others.

Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall: The Pentagram Newspaper

• As the photographer for the Pentagram newspaper, I worked with a team of writers and the executive editor to produce a weekly newspaper that highlighted the strategic communications priorities for the Joint Base.
• Produced a wide variety of high-quality images for use by the newspaper and to promote the joint base by the Public Affairs Office on JBM-HH.
• Photographed… Show more As the photographer for the Pentagram newspaper, I worked with a team of writers and the executive editor to produce a weekly newspaper that highlighted the strategic communications priorities.
• Photographed individual on-location portraits, headshots, news, feature, high-profile appearances, daily life on the joint base and stock imagery for later use.
• Wrote captions using AP Style and used appropriate keywords in all submitted imagery for easy searching and retrieving.
• Edited incoming captions to ensure use of AP Style and correct metadata information.

Master Of Science (Ms), Journalism

Activities and Societies: Member of Boston University News Service

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Film/Video And Photographic Arts, Magnum Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Art Teacher Education, Magnum Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Photo editor of independent student newspaper The Commonwealth Times

Nanodegree, Digital Marketing