Shereen Adel Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

• I work with KALW news department editors to set objectives and create workflows that contribute to an effective and supportive work environment. I provide editors, trainees, contributors, and audiences the resources.
• Partner with editorial leadership to develop and execute the strategies necessary to grow and evolve the KALW newsroom across editorial platforms
• Oversee the KALW training programs, including coordinating the curriculum, managing outreach from application to graduation, and fielding day-to-day questions about the newsroom
• Strategize around fundraising for training programs
• Support audience engagement campaigns by providing resources to editors and reporters and use audience insights to help inform editorial decisions
• Maintain best practices for hiring that are efficient and inclusive, while also staying tuned in to current staff relations, especially retention and workplace community (working with HR)

San Francisco

• I manage the flow of KALW's news production, working with reporters, engineers, and the host of the daily local news show, Crosscurrents.
• Write scripts for Crosscurrents, a half-hour daily local radio newsmagazine
• Organize news department operations, including designing and implementing content tracking and delivery systems
• Direct trainees in our summer journalism training program and nine-month Audio Academy
• Manage digital distribution channels for the news department
• Plan strategically for the news department, including working with individual teams on user-research and goal-setting

San Francisco

• I developed and executed products and strategies aimed at engaging a community of media entrepreneurs and journalists around the future of media and emerging technology.
• Produced media capturing the program experience (blog, newsletter, podcast, and videos) for internal and external use
• Planned and managed major events including bicoastal Demo Days for an audience of 250+ investors
• Facilitated design thinking workshops for media professionals across the country

I managed production and designed issues of a bi-annual literary arts journal. I also developed a website for the magazine using Weebly.

Berkeley, California

• Devised strategies for digital marketing campaigns, and managed schedules for print and digital marketing, including email, social media, and AdWords
• Analyzed metrics relating to the website, email, and social media to increase audience engagement
• Wrote and edited copy and designed graphics for the digital and print marketing
• Created a marketing handbook and brand book for the organization

San Francisco, CA

• Attended weekly training seminars led by Crosscurrents reporters and editors
• Reported and produced stories for the daily news broadcast, Crosscurrents
• Mixed 3-minute StoryCorps segments and 7-minute features in ProTools
• Created a daily news digest for online publication
• Fact-checked full show scripts

San Francisco

• Developed strategy for outreach, using metrics to determine trends and techniques, and managed digital marketing campaigns
• Administered the website and built HTML email newsletters from scratch
• Created and modified graphics for the website, social media, and print
• Participated in developing multimedia (audio & video) for online publication

San Francisco Bay Area

• Coordinated events with local and international partners
• Managed agendas, guest lists, budget, and venue bookings
• Assisted with logistics, communications, and provided promotional support

San Francisco Bay Area

• Skoll Global Threats Fund — Events Coordinator (September 2013 - December 2014)
• Pacific Maritime Association — Executive Assistant (August 2013)

San Francisco

• Maintained and developed current social media outlets & explored new methods of outreach
• Collected data, metrics, and analytics to determine trends and techniques in social media
• Researched potential partner organizations & networked to provide a diverse audience for events
• Assisted in event marketing and promotions, maintained online calendars & created and managed Google AdWord campaigns

New York, NY

Reviewed poetry chapbooks

Cairo, Egypt

• Prepared and delivered lessons to a range of classes of different ages and abilities
• Researched new topic areas & maintained up-to-date subject knowledge
• Devised new curriculum material & prepared students for examinations
• Selected and used a range of different learning resources and equipment & organized and led extracurricular activities
• Marked work, giving appropriate feedback and maintained records of students’ progress and development
• Managed student behavior & applied appropriate and effective measures in cases of misbehavior

Cairo, Egypt

• Prepared and delivered lessons to a range of classes of different ages and abilities
• Researched new topic areas & maintained up-to-date subject knowledge
• Devised new curriculum material & prepared students for examinations
• Selected and used a range of different learning resources and equipment & organized and led extracurricular activities
• Marked work, giving appropriate feedback and maintained records of students’ progress and development
• Managed student behavior & applied appropriate and effective measures in cases of misbehavior

New York, NY

• Conceptualized, created and distributed promotional material, such as press releases, flyers and bookmarks
• Contributed to writing and editing catalog and flap copy
• Assisted in evaluating manuscripts for publication & requested Foreign Rights acquisitions
• Collaborated in arranging events, such as book fairs, literary festivals and author appearances
• Corresponded with authors, distributors, book stores and readers
• Supervised two interns and delegated responsibilities & managed office operations

Cambridge, MA

• Reviewed and organized manuscript submissions
• Searched for publicity clippings of titles and compiled for authors
• Attended and took minutes at board meetings

Natick, MA

• Assisted Writing Studio Director and collaborated on curriculum
• Lectured on topics including literary critique and publishing and editing
• Worked with students individually as instructor of Sentence Sounds, a part of their writing workshop program

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Literature, Film And Visual Culture

Dissertation: “Reiterating and Retelling: The Textual and Visual Translations of Tereus, Procne and Philomela”

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Writing, Literature And Publishing

Activities and Societies: Gangsters in Concrete (literary arts magazine)