Saavon Smalls Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

+ Lead in comprehensive communication strategies to engage members, supporters, and the public, building the NEA brand and mobilizing action for key education policy priorities – health, safety, and disability rights.+ Provide strategic communications counsel for multiple campaigns, ensuring messaging consistency and effectiveness.+ Translate policy-heavy.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

+ Worked on communication strategies to amplify the Common Cause work in seven Midwest states. Additionally coordinated with federal work as necessary.+ Ghostwrote, edited, and pitched op-eds, blogs (Democracy Wire), and letters to editors for state staff.+ Wrote press releases, media advisories, and talking points to prepare state staff for media.

+ Developed and implemented effective communications plans to promote various campaigns and initiatives re: hospital/health care organization and policy. + Worked across various teams to create/manage communications deliverables including social media posts, graphics, video scripts, emails, blogs, decks, and reports + Provide comms for AHA’s Institute for.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

+ Manage day-to-day relationships with 6 clients in the political and non-profit industry, advising them on best practices and emerging digital strategies.+ Creatively guide and write copy for fundraising emails and ads that generate revenue.(Examples of emails written can be found below)+ Contribute in creative process for graphics, gifs, and other.

Greater New York City Area

+Copy edit approximately 30 long-form and social videos from Mashable's video team per week.+Edit scripts from producers for spelling, grammar, and syntactical errors, as well as making sure scripts abide by Mashable's video style guide.+Pitch videos to social team for promotion, distribution.+When needed, contribute in video distribution, promotion via.

New York, New York

+Edited approximately 40 quizzes/articles from BuzzFeed's Community team per week.+Elevated the quality of said pieces to reach an average of 200,000 views/post utilizing BuzzFeed's Style Guide, basic grammar/syntax rules, and Photoshop.+Helped in community engagement and audience relations through social media, as well as hands-on editing.+Helped write.

Clemson, South Carolina

+Conducted interviews and wrote script questions for video promoting Clemson’s on-campus tutoring service in Fall 2015.+Led, wrote and copy edited online and in-print articles for Clemson’s English Dept. newsletter (English Unbound) and the university’s service project magazine (Synergy).+Conducted two webcasts with Synergy and Clemson Broadcasting.

Clemson, South Carolina

+Managed a senior staff of about 25 students.+Managed newspaper’s Twitter and Instagram (a combined total of approx. 4000 followers), increasing said total by 1500. +Led in the design, production and release of Clemson’s second-ever National Championship issue, selling 2,500+ copies. +Led the production of a promotional video for the paper. +Implemented.

+Directed 15 writers under the entertainment section of The Tiger. +Focused on technical and AP style editing of staff-written articles to appeal to college-aged students. +Created and conducted interview-based feature series focusing on local artists in the Clemson area. +Transitioned the section to focus more on the local arts, pop culture and.

+Pitched ideas to managers relating to pop culture, entertainment, and human interest. +Created stories through site’s CMS relating to those topics, using gifs, photos, social media, etc. to attract an audience. +Made own gifs and thumbnails using Photoshop to appeal to audience.

Greater New York City Area

+Created stories and quizzes relating to pop culture and entertainment, using gifs, photos, social media, etc. to attract an audience and collaborating often with internet community to find ideas.+Had a total of approximately 14 million views throughout 60 posts by the program’s end.+Made own gifs and thumbnails using Photoshop to appeal to audience.+Posts.

+Pitched and wrote articles for Fete Greenville, as well as BuzzFeed as a "Community" member. +Had a total of 1 million views on BuzzFeed from Oct. 2016 to May 2017 before hired as an intern during Summer 2017.

+Edited news articles, horoscopes and in-house advertisements in the university’s newspaper in-print and online articles for spelling, grammatical, AP style and sentence fluidity errors.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English (Writing And Publications Studies)

Activities and Societies: The Tiger Newspaper (EiC 2016-2018), TigerMedia Advisory Board, CLEMSONLiVE, Student Affairs Student Advisory.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Mock Trial (president 2013-2014 school year) Academic Challenge Beta Club "NewFlash" newspaper Graduated with.