As deputy director, I maintain my duties as the office correspondence manager. In addition, I am adding on the following responsibilities as it pertains to assisting the regional director: oversee office operations; represent the Senator before constituents, local groups, businesses, civic organizations, and agencies; attend meetings and events throughout assigned areas; act as liaison to local and state government.

I hold a dual role for the Senator. As a constituent services representative, job responsibilities include: answering casework correspondence and verbal communications with constituents; acting as liaison with federal, district, and local agencies for the Senator and constituents; and other duties important to serving the people of South Dakota.As a correspondence manager, job responsibilities include: coordinating with office leadership and LCs to produce and deliver substantive, timely written responses to constituent inquiries; draft, edit outgoing correspondence; oversee drafting and approval of condolence and congratulatory letters.

As a reporter, my main beat included education and life within the Mitchell community. But working a small newsroom means chipping in whenever needed. I've written stories from fatal car crashes to groundbreakings for area businesses. I also oversaw the Life page, which prints daily. This included planning, editing and writing content on a weekly basis. Each Saturday edition, I wrote a large feature piece for the Life section. Other responsibilities including helping with website, social media, photos and videos.

As the student editor, I spent the semester reading through undergraduate research papers. I read through and edited each research paper. I made changes and discussed with students the changes made. I worked with each student on their paper to make it the best it can be. After I was all done with each paper I created the cover and submitted it for publishing.

I served as the Editor-in-Chief at South Dakota State University's student-run newspaper The Collegian. This is a weekly paper that prints on Wednesdays. We cover everything from news to sports to lifestyles. We also have a website: sdsucollegian.com. As the EIC, I do anything and everything including running our social media sites, managing the editors, creating story lists, editing stories and essentially putting together an entire paper each week. I started out as a reporter more than two years ago. Each semester I moved up a position. From reporter I became a news editor. Next I became the lifestyles editor. Following that I stepped into management position as the managing editor and now as EIC. Each position I have held for an entire semester until now as my role as the EIC, which I will hold for an entire year. I graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism in May 2016.

News Intern, basic duties of a reporter for a daily newspaper.

As a student employee, I work with the program assistant with various responsibilities such as data input, answering phone calls, and random activities that other employees need help with.

Creating one of the Mobridge Tribune's largest editions each year: The Sitting Bull Stampede edition. It features three total issues. One Welcome edition, a program edition, and a memories edition. The work with this includes writing all of the stories, which consists of around 30 different stories, taking all the photos for the issues and designing.

Received assignments from editors to report on an activity and/or club at SDSU on campus. I would then write an article and/or provide the editor with all the information collected.