Resume & Experience

Here's where you can find out about my education, staff experience, and technical skills.

 
 

Current Employment, 2017

I'm currently a creative freelancer, pitching articles, writing, tutoring, editing, and doing all sorts of things! I'm also a cohost and cocreator of She's All Fat, the podcast for body positivity, radical self-love, and chill vibes only. I love working independently and determining my own hustle. Ask me about my current novel project and the pop culture criticism floating around in my head today.

Skills & Tools

I am comfortable with most word processing software and common CMS, as well as various design and marketing programs. 

SEO tools:

  • Hootsuite, Nuvi, Sprout Social, PostPlanner
  • Google Analytics, Adsense
  • BuzzSumo
  • UTM codes and tracking
  • Facebook Business Manager, Instagram Ads
  • Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc)
  • iWorks (Pages, etc), Prezi
  • Google products (Docs, Sheets, etc)
  • TinyLetter & MailChimp
  • Photoshop
  • Adobe InDesign
  • iMovie
  • Various CMS (Blogger, Wordpress, SquareSpace, Weebly)
  • Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

BuzzFeed, 2016

As a Curation Fellow, I learned BuzzFeed’s editorial and video process in an intensive training program. I learned how to spot social trends, create sharable and viral content, frame stories for several audiences, and brainstorm and pitch videos and posts. During the fellowship, I curated, packaged, and wrote about both BuzzFeed and external videos for articles that gained over 2.4 million views individually and over 22 million views in total. You can see my BuzzFeed author page here, as well as selected works on my Portfolio page.

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Hello Giggles, 2015

As an editorial intern, I wrote and researched several articles a day, meeting rolling deadlines for breaking news as well as writing personal narratives. I also worked as an editor for teen authors writing personal essays, in addition to creating and growing the social media presence for HelloGigglesTeen.

You can see my HelloGiggles author page here, as well as selected works on my Portfolio page.

Education

I graduated from Stanford University in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts. I focused my Comparative Literature major on late 19th century narratives of change and social consciousness from Russia, France, England, and Ireland. I also completed a minor in Creative Writing, focusing on short fiction and prose. I received a Chappell Lougee grant in the summer of 2011 to travel to Ireland and produce a creative piece.  

While at school, I wrote for and edited The Claw, a student literary magazine.

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Complete Resume

For a look at more of my work history, click the image at left to expand my resume.