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New York, United States

Provide as-needed support to consultants working campaigns around the country• Write scripts for radio and TV ads• Research archived footage for TV ads and campaign videos• Write copy for campaign websites, blast texts and emails, walk pieces, and mailers• Supervise photo and video shoots, supervise post-production editing

Bronx, New York, United States

Strategic messaging/direction, candidate positioning, policy development, media/debate skills training• Developed a common-sense, community-oriented platform and policies emphasizing Crime, Opportunity, Public Health and Education (C.O.P.E.)• Wrote talking points, speeches, op-eds, social media posts, campaign website content• Oversight of campaign staff, consultants and vendors executing plans for oppo, polling, canvassing, and other core campaign functions

Battle Ground, Washington, United States

Set up basic campaign functions• Recruited/managed/trained volunteer staff to support fundraising goals, direct voter contact goals, and field operations• Set up a call center, and wrote scripts for volunteer and candidate fundraising calls• Supervised creation/execution of meet-and-greet and larger campaign events• Collaborated with campaign’s strategic messaging and media consultant to create walk pieces, radio and TV ads, and text message ads• Collaborated with campaign’s pollster to analyze a benchmark poll, and to create a brushfire poll• Secured a weekly interview for the candidate on Wednesdays in the 2 pm hour on the Lars Larson Show, the #1 conservative talk radio show in the district

Bronx, New York, United States

Strategic messaging/direction, candidate positioning, policy development, media/debate skills training• Policy development• Wrote campaign website, speeches, social media posts, walk pieces, blast emails and texts • Wrote scripts for a 60-second radio ad, three 30-second TV ads and a 60-second robocall• Directed video shoots, and supervised post-production editing of a 60-second radio spot, three 30-second TV ads, MMS video texts, and 10-second FB video ads

East Bronx And Northwest Queens

Ran on these key issues that represented the values and wishes of the voters in my district:• Tax policies that promote economic diversity in the East Bronx and Northwest Queens, and encourage companies like Amazon to create good jobs for those who live here.• School vouchers and specialized vocational schools to improve K-12 education—for all students, including special needs students.• Border and immigration control is a neighborhood security issue. Keep out violent gangs like MS-13 and Trinitarios, and stop the flood of opioids into our neighborhoods.• Affordable, personalized private health insurance, not socialized government coverage.• Lower prescription drug prices, without hampering innovation.• Skills “refresh” for middle-aged white collar professionals displaced in the Great Recession.• No funding for endless wars; protecting the U.S. from 21st Century threats like cyberwar, electromagnetic pulse attacks and biowarfare; supporting our ally, Israel.

Greater New York City Area

B2C/B2B content development and curation for websites, social media, and digital and print publications. Manage projects and deliverables; write and edit articles, brochures, press releases; write and curate content for social media posts; create images GIFs and short videos for social media posts.

Developed and launched a multiple award-winning consumer cardiovascular health magazine for the American Heart Association. Managed day-to-day editorial operations, including: developing and implementing editorial standards for authoritativeness, accountability and style; creating editorial calendars, assigning articles and setting deadlines; recruiting writers, graphic artists and designers and and nurtured their talents; writing and editing articles; and providing editorial leadership to facilitate effective use of time and resources.

Created a multimedia online patient education program to facilitate informed consent and clinical trial enrollment for multinational genetic studies for this start-up bioinformatics company. Launched TempusFGT, a weekly online newsletter for clients that covered research, regulatory issues and industry trends in genetics, pharmacogenomics and bioinformatics.

For this start-up online news vertical, I developed and launched The Safety Center portal, which included seven verticals: Family, Home and Community; Transportation and Travel; Money and Business; Injury Prevention; Disaster Survival; Campus Safety and Crime; and Special Reports. Created the editorial calendar for each vertical; recruited writers; assigned articles and set deadlines for completion; edited and wrote articles; and managed a staff of researchers, producers, video/photo editors and graphic artists. Also served as a media spokesperson for APBNews.com and for The Safety Center.

Ketchum's Food & Nutrition Group hired me to help execute a multi-year public education campaign to publicize emerging research on the relationship between folic acid deficiency and the neural tube defects spina bifida and anencephaly. As a result of the campaign, public health agencies in the US, Canada and UK required folic acid food fortification, which prevented thousands of babies from being born with a serious, often fatal birth defect. The Food & Nutrition Group won a Silver Anvil award from the Public Relations Society of America for the campaign.

Certificate Of Graduation, Political Campaign Management

Was one of 40 campaign professionals hand-picked for Leadership Institute’s inaugural Campaign Leadership College class. From top.

Certificate In Political Campaigning For Candidates And Consultants

Was one of 80 women chosen among 800 applicants to attend this intensive five-day campaign boot camp for new candidates and aspiring.

Master Of Science, Science And Medical Journalism

Bachelor Of Arts, Mass Communications; Pre-Med

Activities and Societies: Editor of school newspaper, "The Hunter Envoy"; DJ and newsreader on school radio station, WRFH.