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Irving, Texas, United States

• Plans, manages, and contributes to digital content areas to achieve marketing, branding, and messaging objectives.
• Writing and copy-editing content that drives engagement within the digital landscape by using search engine optimization practices.
• Interviews subject matter experts, patients, and leaders to produce engaging digital content.
• Collaborate internally and externally to ensure optimization of consumer experience by improving blog content, service line content, and campaign emails.

White Settlement, Texas

• Assisted with monitoring and supervision of recreational activities at the recreation center with an emphasis on public relations with patrons, instructors, and participants
• Assisted with class registration, money collection, and data entry for activity scheduling
• Provided support to the recreation staff with operational duties, monitoring of activities, and serving the public in a polite, courteous, and professional manner

Terrell, Texas

• Promoted to editor and managed all content for its weekly publication and special sections as the only editorial employee
• Achieved writing between 10-20 articles per week, took photos, managed digital website, and managed Facebook account
• Achieved getting the Terrell Tribune’s Facebook page to over 10,000 and 11,000 likes by publishing content
• Maintained community relationships with stakeholders from Terrell ISD, the City of Terrell, and Terrell Chamber of Commerce
• Managed newspaper page design and production while working under deadline
• Won School Bell award in April 2019 for outstanding media coverage of educational news in Kaufman County and won fourth place in sports writing at the North & East Texas Press Association in April 2019

Terrell, Texas

• Achieved writing between 5-10 articles per week covering Terrell High School sports and Terrell ISD as one of two editorial employees for its bi-weekly publication
• Responsibilities also included editing, newspaper page design, photography, and giving regular updates via Facebook

Palestine, Texas

• Covered varsity sports for nine high schools in the Palestine area and wrote 5-10 articles per week for its daily publication
• Wrote under tight deadlines for sporting events that do not end until 10 p.m. or later
• Responsibilities also included sports page design, photography, and giving regular updates via social media accounts

Fort Worth, Texas

• Entered high school rosters, schedules, and stats into a database called 'Team Player’
• Managed phone calls and emails from coaches submitting stats and game results

Arlington, Texas

• Wrote three stories a week and covered the following sports: women's basketball, men's basketball, cross country, tennis, golf, wheelchair basketball, intramural sports and the UTA Athletic Department.
• Used and operated Content Management System.

Fort Worth, Texas

• Regularly assigned high school football and basketball games to cover in Tarrant and Dallas County
• Took stats from each game
• Wrote and submitted stories under strict deadlines
• Covered the UTA women’s basketball team for two straight seasons

Fort Worth, Texas

• Gained experience working for a professional newspaper for the first time in my journalism career.
• Wrote 35 sports stories, which were mainly feature stories.
• Worked the copy desk and on the high school sports agate by submitting rosters and schedules of high school football teams.

Shawnee, Oklahoma

• The six-week summer Potawatomi Leadership Program internship is to designed to help educate, inform, and encourage interns to help develop skills within the tribe. Only seven applicants selected to participate. Interns.

Master Of Arts (M.A), Communication, 4.0

Courses taken: Advanced Theories in Communication, Communication Research Methods, Theories in Persuasion, Qualitative Research Methods.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Journalism