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Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

San Francisco

Daily coverage of Northern California courts and state Legislature in addition to reporting monthly profiles and enterprise stories

Manage and coordinate strategies to boost awareness and develop constituency for 21st Century Community Learning Centers, which serves the Eastbay Collaborative for Underserved Children (ECUC).• Coordinate all video, audio, written text, and design elements for over a team of 20, split into groups that manage individual school sites. • Storyboard direction, gather footage and assist in editing of documentary focusing on the impact of the closure of two charter schools as a result of… Show more Manage and coordinate strategies to boost awareness and develop constituency for 21st Century Community Learning Centers, which serves the Eastbay Collaborative for Underserved Children (ECUC).• Coordinate all video, audio, written text, and design elements for over a team of 20, split into groups that manage individual school sites. • Storyboard direction, gather footage and assist in editing of documentary focusing on the impact of the closure of two charter schools as a result of budget cuts to public education. • Draft and send weekly newsletters to constituents.• Manage Space to Create, a private social networking site designed as a safe space for at-risk youth that also encourages the collaboration between students and educators to better instruct the role of technology as a creative outlet. Coordinated over 300 students across the six school sites to create and upkeep their own accounts. Show less

Provide coverage of the East Bay, primarily Oakland and Berkeley. Majority of reporting focused on public affairs, finance, and health.

Reported every Cal sport, including but not limited to basketball, football, volleyball, golf, and tennis. Produced human-interest and nonconventional stories focusing on the intersection of sports and technology, culture, and history in addition to routine news updates and previews/recaps. Experience on the news desk as a general assignment reporter (city development, R&I, health). • Published print pages twice per week and online everyday• Edit writers features, recaps, previews… Show more Reported every Cal sport, including but not limited to basketball, football, volleyball, golf, and tennis. Produced human-interest and nonconventional stories focusing on the intersection of sports and technology, culture, and history in addition to routine news updates and previews/recaps. Experience on the news desk as a general assignment reporter (city development, R&I, health). • Published print pages twice per week and online everyday• Edit writers features, recaps, previews, columns, and breaking news articles• Worked in Adobe InDesign, placing articles, and writing headlines and photo captions • Over 160 combined bylines for the sports and news desks. Show less

Berkeley

Research assistant to Dr. John Berger, author and environmental policy consultant. • Survey books, newspapers, and academic research to record and catalog relevant materials relating to forthcoming book, Climate Solutions: Turning Global Peril Into Jobs, Profits, and Prosperity.• Compile photos, write headlines and subheads, copy edit, fact check, and place articles ready for publication on Word Press.• Draft freelance inquiries

Created and published content on a daily basis, including features and columns. • Over 150 bylines • Produced bimonthly web traffic reports detailing trends in high traffic articles and strategies tocapitalize on those trends• Traffic maintained or increased in four of six months, relative to the previous year• Manage content blocks on Word Press

Berkeley

Manage and create content that demonstrates the impact of an environmental literacy and work readiness curriculum primarily utilized by prisons, re-entry programs, juvenile facilities, and community-based organizations. • Designed, created, and launched a platform dedicated to reporting stories of the organization’s students, the majority of whom suffer from generational poverty and environmental injustice.• Produced biweekly features in addition to posting briefs on organizational… Show more Manage and create content that demonstrates the impact of an environmental literacy and work readiness curriculum primarily utilized by prisons, re-entry programs, juvenile facilities, and community-based organizations. • Designed, created, and launched a platform dedicated to reporting stories of the organization’s students, the majority of whom suffer from generational poverty and environmental injustice.• Produced biweekly features in addition to posting briefs on organizational updates. Show less