Stephanie Harte Kaestner Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee, WI, US

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

• Manage the nonprofit’s Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram accounts
• Grew Facebook followers by 100%, LinkedIn followers by 181%, and Instagram followers by 268%
• Develop relationships with social media influencers to reach new audiences
• Create social media content and other marketing materials with high profile brand ambassadors including Milwaukee Bucks Forward Bobby Portis, Bucks' DJ Shawna, and Green Bay Packers Running Back AJ Dillon
• Oversaw a redesign or our organization’s website, FeedingAmericaWI.org, to make it more up-to-date and user-friendly
• Generate content and handle daily maintenance on website through WordPress

Waukesha, Wisconsin

• Wrote and edited articles on deadline for Madison, Milwaukee, and high school playbills, as well as Footlights.com
• Started Footlights Five video series, which allows artists to discuss the creative process behind their current projects
• Managed social media accounts including our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and generated weekly newsletter
• Added 4,000 subscribers to newsletter mailing list and over 570 likes to the Facebook page
• Created press releases and marketing materials for Footlights People’s Choice Awards
• Kept website up to date with the latest audition information, job postings, and events

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Wrote, edited, and proofed copy for Taste of Home cookbooks
• Assisted with creating content for digital eBooks
• Maintained databases and created indexes for Taste of Home, Birds & Blooms, and Reminisce Books
• Brainstormed ideas for new products, including a Taste of Home cookbook targeted towards Millennials

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Launched our all student media project on college-age suicide with the April 2017 issue of the magazine
• Helped brainstorm and create multimedia pieces to complement our stories online
• Completed final edit on every story
• Organized workflow of editors, designers, photographers, and reporters to ensure deadlines were met
• Wrote human interest feature-length stories as well as short front-of-book pieces

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Wrote about local events for the magazine’s website, milwaukeemag.com
• Assisted with story research, which included a cover story on EB-5 investments
• Pitched story and design ideas to the editor in chief and managing editor
• Fact-checked and proofed articles to ensure accuracy before publication

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Wrote articles and reviews for the alternative weekly’s entertainment section
• Contributed to the editorial planning behind the Fall Arts Guide

• Collaborated with team of fellow students to create promotional pieces to celebrate 50th Summerfest
• Interviewed festival attendees, musicians, volunteers, and staff about favorite Summerfest memories
• Assisted behind the scenes to run cameras and set up audio equipment

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Worked with Dave Umhoefer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, on his investigative project examining Act 10’s effects on education
• Conducted research by searching through media reports as well as teacher handbooks and contracts
• Interviewed school administrators and teachers on the policy

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Managed eight arts and entertainment reporters that created content for Marquette's student media branches including our newspaper, magazine, website, television and radio stations
• Assigned stories and assisted reporters in producing content by providing constructive feedback
• Started a staff weekly podcast on weekend events on Marquette’s campus and in Milwaukee

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Edited stories from reporters for our semiweekly newspaper, The Marquette Tribune, monthly online magazine, The Marquette Journal and online content for our website, marquettewire.org.
• Assisted reporters with improving their writing styles and clarifying beats assigned to them.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Wrote and performed a weekly segment on the entertainment show "#trending." Informed viewers on events in Milwaukee.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Wrote articles every week to be published in the Marquette Tribune, Marquette Journal and marquettewire.org. Covered multiple beats such as culture, theatre, music and film.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Wrote articles on programs and issues facing Milwaukee's neighborhoods for the nonprofit news organization
• Took photo and video for stories
• Created audio pieces for the website's ongoing series "On The Block," which allows locals to discuss anything on their minds, from the political climate to education

Burr Ridge, IL

Responsibilities included preparing food, serving customers, working the register and filling orders.

Hinsdale, IL

Wrote articles for the community newspaper that is delivered to residents of Hinsdale, Illinois every Thursday.

Darien, Illinois

Worked register and prepared food for customers.

Bolingbrook, Ill.

Approached customers in a friendly manner to help locate merchandise. Completed sales transactions and organized displays.