William Higbie Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Advance Associates travel on behalf of the Harris/Walz Campaign to prepare event sites for principals, handling press, site, and crowd. Event sizes range from intimate fundraisers to 15,000+ person rallies.

• Director of Alumni - organized two alumni weekend and created a bi-semesterly email for our 10 years of alumni!
• Arts, Grooves & Foods Committee: Coordinated and hosted a music & arts festival from ideation to execution, leading an event production team of 8 and an audio & visual team of 4. The festival featured 5 musical acts.
• Spark XM - Led a team of 5 members producing three episodes of Spark XM. A podcast about students disrupting the status quo at USC: we showcase students innovating and disrupting the world—that’s what Spark is all about.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• A student-driven entrepreneurial organization whose mission is to foster entrepreneurial action across communities at USC and beyond.
• Led a complex, three-round vetting process that recruited over 45 members in 4 semesters from over 250 applicants.
• Raised over $10,000 for 30+ student vendors through the launch of Trojan Marketplace, a student-run flea market.
• Planned and executed a Startup Career Fair raising over $7,000 from 20+ startups incubated by USC students.

Worked with the investment office to accelerate 277 million dollar fossil fuel divestment and increase transparency.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Increased the Congressman's Instagram follower count by over 60% and added over 1000 new Twitter followers. Covered sub-committee meeting schedule, producing hearing recap videos - capturing spontaneous moments with governmental officials and constituents.Coached the Congressman on speech delivery, directly pitching video ideas to increase social media.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Contains: Eggs is a production company that builds multimedia solutions with a focus on entertainment through the lenses of engineering and storytelling.+ Lead video producer.+ Creates and manages production schedule from the project's inception until video release. + Manages video budgets.+ Assistant Director (A.D), manages on set shooting schedule.

Los Angeles, California, United States

PCJP is a program in the USC Gould School of Law that provides legal services to unfairly treated by the criminal justice system in Los Angeles. + Creates video and photo content for the PCJP Instagram and website + Develops short documentaries on PCJP clients

Los Angeles

2019-2020 Academic Year - ESA Ambassador:Created promotional content for ESA. And worked on the Divest SC campaign, asking USC to disclose and divest from fossil fuel and reinvest in clean energy.2020-2021 - Social Media Director2021-2022 - Community Engagement Director

Designed and executed a communications SWOT analysis for the Director of the Sustainability Office. Conducted and interpreted over 15 student and staff leader interviews on how the Office should improve its messaging to the USC community.

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Led community organizing effort in East Detroit that delivered one of the highest voter turnouts for the entire slate of Michigan Democrats.Placed over 800 personal phone calls to recruit 100 volunteers who completed 230 voter contact shifts during the campaign.

Greater Detroit Area

Served in several roles behind the counter at Subway: sandwich making, cashiering, and washing dishes.

Detroit

Spent time contributing to several projects and initiatives in the Mayor's Office, namely in the Departments of Customer Service and Human Resources. Personly worked on the creation of a partnership between the Michigan Film Industry Association and the City of Detroit. This partnership helped form legislation to bring film tax incentives back to Michigan..

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Cinema And Media Studies

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