Résumé

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Education

  • SUNY Plattsburgh. B.A., magazine journalism, spring 2014. GPA: 3.98
  • SUNY Adirondack. Associate in Arts, 2012.

Current

My time is currently split between journalism and marketing for a nonprofit called Coastline Elderly Services, where I help with the agency’s marketing efforts and am solely responsible for a monthly newspaper that the company acquired in 2018 called Senior Scope. The paper is geared toward older adults, promoting health and well-being while advocating for its readership.

Marketing Specialist, Coastline Elderly Service
fall 2018–winter 2021

  • Produces monthly newspaper
  • Webmaster
  • Produces marketing material (flyers, videos, etc.)
  • Maintains social media for Coastline
  • Represents Coastline at meetings

Editor, Senior Scope
grant-funded health publication, circulation: 10,000
spring 2016–winter 2021

  • Reports, edits and is solely responsible for producing a monthly newspaper
  • Manages and edits contributed content
  • Maintains website and subscribers
  • Photography and layout
  • (Paper was originally a project of the City of New Bedford; acquired by Coastline Elderly Services in 2018.)

Board Member of the Southcoast LGBTQ+ Network
Member since 2020; member of a subcommittee focusing on the needs of older LGBTQ+ adults

Freelance Videographer, Coastal Foodshed
Editing cooking videos for social media, USDA grant-funded project

Prior Experience

Marketing Specialist/Volunteer Coordinator, Dartmouth YMCA
spring 2016–fall 2018

  • Helped recruit volunteers for Sharing the Harvest Community Farm
  • One of two who managed the farm during 2018 summer season
  • Maintained and produced original content for social media
  • Filmed and edited promotional video for the web, social media and television

Editor, Dartmouth Week
independent print/online publication, circulation: 4,800
spring 2015–spring 2016

  • Reported and photographed stories daily, covering a wide array of topics
  • Worked on layout for the weekly print publication using InDesign
  • Maintained website daily
  • Filmed and edited videos for the website
  • Guided contributors and monitored contributed content

Photo Editor, DoNorth Magazine
student-produced magazine, circulation: 10,000
fall 2013–fall 2014

  • Photo editor, photographer, reporter, fact checker
  • Guided contributors and edited content in Photoshop
  • Developed the photo essay for the Winter/Spring 2015 issue

Teaching assistant, SUNY Plattsburgh
fall 2013–fall 2014

  • Served as a teacher’s assistant in the following courses: Audio/Video Productions (JOU 240), Grammar for Journalists (JOU 209), Comma 101 (JOU 381E) and Digital Publishing (JOU 316).

Writing tutor, SUNY Adirondack
fall 2012

  • Guided students in generating ideas for essays
  • Assisted ESL students with writing in English
  • Proofread papers

Freelance

Project manager for website relaunch, YMCA Southcoast
spring 2017

  • Led a team of 20 to develop and launch a website for YMCA Southcoast
  • Frequently commissioned to produce videos that have been used for online marketing and events for YMCA stakeholders

Internships

Lake Champlain Weekly
summer 2014

  • Compiled press releases to produce a weekly “events” section
  • Wrote six feature-length articles, running 800–1,600 words

Press-Republican
summer 2014

  • Filmed and edited 19 videos for the newspaper’s website
  • Wrote hard news articles and shot photography for the newspaper