Program 11

Content Strategist / Writer / Producer

Away With Words

Freelance Copywriter, Content Strategist, & Producer

Smithsonian Channel

Produce videos for Smithsonian Channel’s social media channels featuring its diverse collection of documentary series.

Freelance Video Producer/Script Writer/Researcher

National Automatic Merchandising Association

Redesigned and launched new website - namanow.org - in summer 2018.

Director, Digital Media and Communications

Manage internal and external communications for national association representing the $25 billion convenience services industry and world’s most recognized brands.

Develop and oversee marketing and media outreach for the association’s largest priorities, helping to build industry visibility and impact and drive growth of events. Create content for more than 200 pieces of outbound communications per year including press releases, email campaigns and website. Produce videos for newly-launched NAMA TV. Serve as associate editor of NAMA’s quarterly magazine, InTouch. Write/edit executive communications. Manage all social media channels.

Senior Manager, Marketing and Communications

Kurtis Productions

Worked with head producer in all facets of production of hour-long episodes for CNBC's nationally acclaimed financial crime documentary series, American Greed, including: field producing and conducting on-camera interviews, directing b-roll and recreation shoots, story research and development, bookings and pre-interviews, script editing, fact-checking, web content, gathering archive and rights materials and negotiating costs, planning all aspects of shoots, preparing all deliverables, managing episode budgets and using LexisNexis, Pacer and various other databases, websites and news outlets for extensive research.

Associate Producer

Assisted producers and AP’s on hour-long documentary series, including: story research and development, bookings and pre-interviews, fact-checking, archive footage and stills, coordinating shoot logistics and travel, assisting on local shoots.

Production Assistant

Various companies abroad

Held temporary office admin roles at a variety of Sydney companies including a solar company, NSW Department of Health, an architecture firm and a financial planning group, while living and traveling in Australia.

Office Coordinator

Associated Press

Covered globally relevant news out of Australia and the South Pacific; daily news and spot stories; pitched and wrote enterprise stories on human interest, business and tourism topics; contributed to breaking stories on multiple natural disasters; articles featured on NYTimes.com, Time.com, WashingtonPost.com, TheGuardian.com,Yahoo.com and other international news outlets.

Global Reporting Resident

Medill News Service

Covered Capitol Hill and federal agencies, reporting on health, science, the military and national security; videos and articles were featured on national and regional outlets, including McClatchy News, KVRR (Fargo, ND), The Washington Post - WhoRunsGov and Military Times; shot, edited and produced daily and enterprise video stories; participated in a hostile environment and first aid training program for journalists embedding or traveling abroad.

Broadcast Reporter

Medill News Service/Northwestern News Network

Reported and produced daily video, audio and print stories, pitched original story ideas; shot and edited all videos; wrote scripts and performed voiceovers and stand-ups; anchored, wrote, and produced weekly newscasts for Evanston Cable (Northwestern News Network); studied on-air performance and live-shots; researched audience information; story topics included mental health, social issues and immigration; published in Northwest Indiana Times’ magazine, Get Healthy; served on web production team.

Multimedia Reporter

Newsweek Magazine

Supported teams in Chicago, Detroit and Dallas; collaborated on all elements of print 
and digital proposals; managed weekly reports, prepared estimates, tracked market share; performed competitive research and analysis using Nielsen, @plan, AdRelevance; utilized Salesforce and other databases to monitor revenue and contact info; processed insertion orders, coordinated and executed client and agency events; managed office finances.

Integrated Sales Planner

Writer, producer, and content strategist crafting compelling content for state agencies, startups, B2B brands, national organizations, and news and documentary outlets. Proven leader, problem solver, and relationship-builder who executes with excellence. Passionate storyteller, lifelong learner, and seeker of new experiences.

My work has been featured on CNBC, Smithsonian Channel's YouTube and social media, Yahoo.com, NYTimes.com, Time.com, Guardian.com, KVRR News (Fox affiliate for ND, SD and MN), McClatchyDC.com and affiliated McClatchy News sites, MilitaryTimes.com, The Washington Post’s WhoRunsGov.com, ImmigrantConnect.org, the Northwest Indiana Times’ Get Healthy magazine, MedillDC.net, MedillNewsService.com and others.

Contact me at AwayWithWordsContent@gmail.com to collaborate!

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