Mikaila Garfinkel

Databricks

Sr. Content Marketing Manager

Rubrik, Inc.

Sr. Marketing Content and Social Manager

Rubrik delivers instant application availability for recovery, search, cloud, and development. Hybrid cloud enterprises mobilize applications, automate protection policies, recover from Ransomware, search, and analyze application data at scale on one platform. From days to seconds.
 
A 2016 Gartner Cool Vendor. CFO Magazine’s Top 20 Disruptive Tech Companies to Watch. Awarded the Northface ScoreBoard Award. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies.

Marketing Content Manager

TCI (Teachers' Curriculum Institute)

• Lead the editorial process for three middle school social studies programs, which includes overseeing editors’ content and planning and outlining new text.
• Strategize an editorial calendar with the marketing team, and create marketing content such as blog posts, social media campaigns, and sales collateral.
• Collaborate with designers to quickly develop prototypes for new print and online student features.
• Manage the company style guide and communicate all updates to the team.
• Write and edit lesson content, under strict deadlines, aimed at teaching in a clear and engaging voice.

Senior Editor

• Researched, wrote, and edited K-12 social studies narrative-focused curriculum to teach a wide student audience.
• Developed and edited a high school government textbook and online presentation revision, which came $10,000 under budget and sold more copies than any previous edition.

Editorial Associate

• Wrote cultural essays for a middle school social studies textbook in a story-telling style. 
• Created 10+ science activities intended to teach students in a fun and informative manner.
• Converted 20+ lessons into HTML code, and uploaded them to the TCI website.

Editorial/Curriculum Intern

Freelance

• Freelance for multiple startups to write and edit marketing materials, including blog posts, website copy, and case studies that drive user engagement.
• Experienced and interested in writing on highly technical topics, including decentralized systems and cryptocurrencies, to communicate complex information.
• Help plan and execute inbound marketing strategies and produce editorial calendars.

Content and Marketing Contractor

UrbnEarth

• Write and manage content for blog posts, social media, emails, and the company website.
• Develop and maintain relations with UrbnEarth contacts and potential collaborations via email and in-person meetings.
• Promote UrbnEarth at local entrepreneurial events to increase company exposure and induce collaborations. 
• Create and implement an editorial calendar.

Marketing and Communications

UC Berkeley English Department

• Admitted into the highly-selective honors program and performed extensive research to write a 40-page senior thesis on otherworld iconography in a widely circulated medieval poem.
• My thesis focused on how the translation of "The Vision of Tundale" maps the development of Purgatory as a doctrine, particularly with the use of Purgatory iconography and penitential romance rhetoric.

English Honors Program

UC Berkeley

• Organized a student-run course on infectious diseases and public health, in collaboration with four other students, designed to educate 20+ students in an engaging way.
• Lectured on the social impact of a variety diseases, which required extensive research.
• Coordinated with professors and public health professionals to arrange guest speakers for the class.

Instructor, Infectious Diseases Around the Globe

Berkeley Scientific Journal

• Edited and proofread rough drafts of scientific research papers to ensure that they were clear, analytical, and grammatically correct.

Assistant Features Editor

Pass The Torch

• Tutored four students individually in various college-level English courses to ensure improvement in their reading and writing skills, study habits, and understanding of the material.
• Created a tutoring and study plan for each student based on his or her individual needs.
• Completed two classes that taught effective teaching methods, which honed my tutoring skills.

Leader

I'm an experienced content marketer who is passionate about writing and obsessed with driving results. I've worked across a variety of industries, but always aim to be creative, strategic...and a little unhinged.

I'm deeply passionate about sustainability and uncovering new innovations to combat climate change. I find joy in exploring how technology can help humans live harmoniously with nature.

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