Sierra Vandervort Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

Portland, Or, Us

♦ Research, write, and optimize original content to meet editorial strategy and quick turnaround times ensuring accuracy, quality, and creative integrity. ♦ Leverage yoga teacher background to capture stories and news items about the yoga community for digital publication and promotion. ♦ Organize and coordinate interviews with high-profile teachers and artists.

Remote

♦ Spearheaded, conceptualized, and built a wellness blog from the ground up driving impressions from zero to 132,000 per month and 4, 000 unique visitors per month.As a blog owner, I lead all aspects of wellness and lifestyle strategic content planning. I also research and write feature articles incorporating SEO, conduct comprehensive interviews to gather significant facts andinformation, and report current news. I produce SEO writing and develop and implement all marketing and sales initiatives.

♦ Promoted multiple national music festivals including Electric Forest,BUKU, and Okeechobee with preview and review content.♦ Booked and conducted interviews with The Glitch Mob, Desert Dwellers,Elephante, and various top artists.As a music journalist freelance writer/editor, I research, write, andoptimize original content to meet editorial strategy and quick turnaroundtimes ensuring accuracy, quality, and creative integrity. Leveraging mystrong music background, I capture stories and news items about electronicmusic for digital publication and promotion. I also organize and coordinateinterviews with high-profile music artists.

♦ Research, pitch, and write 2600- to 3000-word SEO optimized articles about travel and lifestyle topics with a one-week to one-day turnaround rate♦ Import and format content in custom CMS and source creative assets for each article♦ Contribute to the company style guide, editorial strategy, and publishing standards to uphold the quality of content

Remote

♦ Created unique promotional material including event recommendations and artist interviewsdesigned to increase ticket sales to large-scale dance events.As a music journalist, my role is to craft musician bios and spotlightfeature articles. I also conduct comprehensive, investigative interviews to garnerkey facts and information. Capturing background stories and experiences ofinterest, I promote artists and music to digital and print media audiences.I also write news items and feature articles focused on dance musicindustry.

Portland, Oregon, United States

♦ Created numerous unique story ideas delving into areas of interest toaudiences.♦ Recruited quality freelance writers for a bi-monthly digital publication.As an editor, I led the recruitment and evaluation of quality freelance writersfor the bi-monthly digital publication. I edited written content forclarity, accuracy, style, and digital optimization and oversaw strategicstoryline development and editorial calendar.

Bloomington, Indiana Area

♦ Appointed to manage all NUVO social media platforms.♦ Key collaborator with the marketing team to promote NUVO at local events.As social media coordinator, I reported on local music, arts, and nightlifeevents for a circulation of more than 50,000. I applied my extensive SEOknowledge and experience when packaging materials for digital media.

London, United Kingdom

♦ Fostered strategic relationships with key public relations firms andrecord labels.♦ Leveraged strong music background to add value to content.In this role, I created consistent original lifestyle content for thewebsite including interviews, feature stories, reviews, and breaking newspieces. I oversaw all aspects of artist management and communication.

Bloomington, Indiana Area

- Write, edit and shoot regular in-depth features on the Bloomington arts scene

Bloomington, Indiana Area

- Pitch, write and edit three stories a week covering the latest news in local music and art to a circulation of over 14,000- Shoot and edit photographs for print and web publication

Bloomington, Indiana Area

- Copyedit and factcheck all articles before publication- Report on local events and lifestyle topics for publication in the magazine- Plan social media calendar for magazine posts on Twitter