Softer Sounds

✺ Softer Sounds is a feminist podcast studio for entrepreneurs & creatives. 🤍 🪞 🗺️ 🎙️ 💎 🔗 🌬️ 🚀 🪴 ✨
✺ We partner with women & nonbinary business owners to launch, grow & produce podcasts that establish their expertise, expand their network, simplify their marketing & increase their sales.
✺ Shows we support include: Moonbeaming, The Black Girl Bravado, The Twelfth House, Common Shapes by Marlee Grace & more.
✺ Our first original show, Off the Grid: Leaving Social Media Without Losing All Your Clients, also has over 50,000 downloads.

Founder & Executive Producer

Lifestyle Business League

✺ The Lifestyle Business League is a support network for lifestyle business owners. 
✺ We offer community, programming & perks for small business leaders who want more for themselves, their people & the planet.
✺ Join us for monthly, no-fluff events & supportive online community ✌️

Co-Founder

Fifty Feminist States

✺ Fifty Feminist States is a podcast featuring feminist activists & artists across the US.
✺ Launched in 2018, I published 7 seasons with 57 episodes featuring over 70 guests in 35 states.
✺ I also successfully orchestrated two Kickstarter campaigns to crowdfund more than $12k for the podcast, as well as promoted a glow.fm page for ongoing support.
✺ And I created the Fifty Feminist States Podcast Fellowship — a 3-month paid opportunity to learn how to podcast and then record and produce an episode of Fifty Feminist States.

Executive Producer & Host

Sister

✺ At Sister, I oversaw our core programs, including Feminist Business School, the Business. But Make it Feminist. podcast & other events, to ensure smooth execution and delivery of all services.
✺ I worked with our community of feminist entrepreneurs to nurture productive, feminist reflection on company visions and core values and to engineer creative, strategic solutions to business problems.
✺ Internally, I worked with Sister's founder to strategize product development, sales efforts, and marketing schedules for each quarter. I also drafted and scheduled marketing campaigns for social media and email.

Program Coordinator

DePaul University

• Taught philosophy and general education courses to over 600 students.
• Designed syllabi, delivered course lectures, and developed assessment strategies. 
• Promoted and mediated classroom dialogue in order to facilitate student learning. 

Courses taught include PHL100: Introduction to Philosophy, LSP200: Philosophical Approaches to Multiculturalism, PHL233: What is Freedom? and PHL233: Issues in Sex and Gender.

Graduate Teaching Fellow - Department of Philosophy

• Designed curriculum for students in the McNair Scholars Program, a federal grant program that aids students from underrepresented backgrounds in developing research skills and applying to PhD programs. 
• Assisted over 100 students in applying to PhD programs, including drafting application materials and preparing for interviews.
• Produced curricular materials including assignments, activities, and presentations. 
• Delivered weekly seminars to junior and senior cohorts. 
• Mentored individual students and assisted in preparing graduate school application materials, including extensive editing.

Graduate Instructor - McNair Scholars Program

Forth Chicago

• Ideated, organized, recorded, and produced the Go Forth podcast. 
• Planned and executed public events.
• Coordinated daily Instagram posts and engagement.
• Contributed to Facebook group and page.
• Developed, drafted, and sent weekly newsletter in Mailchimp.

Podcast & Public Events Coordinator

Seismic, LLC

• Developed social media strategies for companies of various sizes in diverse industries. 
• Created and posted powerful content tailored to a company's marketing messaging and goals. 
• Built social networks on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and Pinterest. 
• Engaged followers and responded to social comments.

Social Account Manager

Social Media Guardian

• Created social media pages and developed social media strategies for businesses in industries such as tech, sales, communications, retail, and food services. 
• Provided content and monitoring for these businesses on diverse social platforms including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, Blogger, Wordpress and Youtube.

MedThink Communications

• Styled and edited raw content from client, marketing and design into HTML and CSS formatting for emails and websites. 
• Utilized MailChimp for production of email marketing materials.

Content Manager

Meredith College

• Lead weekly staff meetings for Meredith College’s campus newspaper. 
• Organized article assignments, photo attainment, and submission database. 
• Oversaw and organized layout and copyediting staff. 
• Redesigned the paper’s editorial staff organization. 
• Designed layout graphics and template for the Herald. 
• Researched and wrote front page articles discussing campus events and controversy.

Editor-in-Chief, The Meredith Herald

• Clerical and assistant work including creating databases, typing documents and organizing departmental events.

Assistant to the English Department Head

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