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Madison, WI

Promote curiosity and equable learning. Plan and prepare lessons, Teach and facilitate learning, responsible for assessing and evaluating the students' progress and achievement in science and communicate the assessment results and expectations to the students, the parents, and the administration.

• Professional writer for a wide variety of publications.
• Freelance reporter for local and regional publications.
• Outreach and Communications Strategy
• Features writing

• Wrote feature columns on variety of subjects-lifestyle, health, entertainment, news. Section circulation 110,000+.
• Special writer for these sections: Sunday pullout (24 Wisconsin and Illinois papers), Health and Fitness, Genealogy, Active Living, special seasonals.
• Researched, edited, produced stories for publication.
• Photography, Layout, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator.

• Outreach and Communications Strategy
• Public Relations
• National media coordination and story development for variety of academic institutions on topics such as tech transfer, healthcare, and technology
• Publication Editing for several authors

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Helped draft policy and communications strategy during historic labor protest period.
• Wrote Legislative Update.
• Provided communications support for Senator Taylor's national media appearances, jokes, on-air talking points and other content: BBC America, Ed Schultz, PBS Newshour, Rachel Maddow, and others.
• Drafted event and on-floor session speeches: voter ID, gerrymandering, tenant rights, youth incarceration.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Designed, implemented, and taught multi-disciplinary education and arts curricula for 350 at-risk youth. Writing and music emphasis.
• Managed Arts and Education Department.
• Volunteer Coordinator for corporate sponsorship events, University of Wisconsin School of Education internship placements.
• Established collaborative partnerships with community agencies and local arts organizations such as the Chazen Museum of Art and Overture Center For The Arts.
• Created series of in-person workshops with world-renowned artists and local professionals. Highlights included Regina Carter, Hilary Hahn, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Patty Lowe, Richard Davis.
• Planned, organized, and ran large, annual community fundraising events such as major donors fundraisers and Black Black History Month Celebration

• Developed elementary curricula utilizing botanical gardens as outdoor biology learning units.
• Created large Youth Garden from donated park land. Today, the garden is a thriving part of the Olbrich community.
• Outdoor classroom served 150 at-risk and special needs youth weekly.