Writing is my first home

4+ Years

• Assist companies in building internal capacity to leverage talent for digital marketing and advertising campaigns, B2B, B2C, and social media outreach
• Lead multi-person team in writing and execution of digital content strategy for top-tier clients, relying on agile methodology and fast-paced iterative strategy
• Team lead and daily operations manager for email marketing campaigns rooted in brand voice and defined by precise audience targeting
• Copywriting and digital strategy lead for expansive, long-term campaigns
• Up-to-date on best practices for digital copywriting and analytics

3+ Years

• Conceptualize and execute marketing campaigns
• Write copy for video, print, digital, UX, mobile, and social
• Work closely with Art Directors and Creative Directors to develop concepts
• Contribute ideas and copy to new business pitches
• Provide guidance and direction to junior writers
   

3+ Years

• Design learning spaces for early-career educators working in diverse, underfunded schools
• Focus on identity development, professional growth, social justice, and leadership
• Deliver strategic support to teachers, resulting in 88% of teachers on track to reach rigorous end-of-year goals
• Received 8th highest team satisfaction rating (out of 300 in role nationwide)
• Lead and design learning spaces for onboarding, training, certification, leadership development (6.8/7 average on session feedback across tenure)
• Inaugural recipient of Certification of Excellence in Adult Learning based on 7-month agile project design and adult learning theory coursework

15+ Years Freelance

• Envisioned, pitched, executed on-time copy and editorial content for publications online and in print
• Wrote consistently for San Francisco Chronicle, Nerve.com, The Daily Beast/Newsweek, Tablet.org, The Forward, Publishers Weekly, Hemispheres, Reed, Paste, Willamette Week, PopMatters.com, others.
• Sample content:
  • Gene Hunter
  • The BsAs Book Fair & the Vargas Llosa Controversy 
  • Gluttonous Genre Mutations
  • African explores a triracial Ohio town
  • How loving dogs makes us human
  • Young, unsure—and Jewish, by the way. 
  • Parsing the Messy Terrain of the Heart 
  • Going South
  • Country Seats

2+ Years

• Managed a dispersed team of bilingual writers, translators, and artists.
• Wrote introductions, set style guide, and created publishing calendar. 
• Lead deadline-oriented work-stream to create and publish a biweekly literary supplement for English-language newspaper based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Published  award-winning work by Oliverio Coelho, Carlos Gamerro, and Guillermo Martínez (The Oxford Murders), among others, in original English translations.

<1 Years

• Crafted clean, brand-dependent publicity copy distributed to national network of print and online media outlets and journalists
• Researched markets across US and managed press outreach for best-selling and Grammy winning artists
• Represented artists including: Bjork, k.d. lang, Rufus Wainwright, Dan Wilson, Nonesuch Records
• Pitched music directors, magazine editors and TV producers.

5+ Years

• Budgeted weekly content and created management calendar to source, write, and publish 150+ blog posts, articles, email newsletters focused on music, pop culture, media, current events, TV
• Wrote with general interest and niche voice aligned to and activating readership of over 30,000 daily site visitors to About.com/New York Times properties
• Managed dispersed team of freelance writers, photographers, and visual artists.

MEd / Master of Education, Curriculum & Instruction

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

MFA / Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing

University of Wyoming, Laramie

MRes / Master of Research, Cultural Studies

University of London, Birkbeck

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Visiting Scholar

University of Oxford, England

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BA / Bachelor of Arts, English

Reed College, Portland Oregon