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Writing for local (Charleston City Paper, The Post & Courier, Charleston Magazine, Charleston Home), regional (Charlotte Parent, Skirt Magazine, Creative Loafing Atlanta) and national publications (Flair, Complete Woman, Mademoiselle, Parents, Town & Country), as well as for web sites (Smile & Act Nice, Digs Magazine, EstroClick, SnowBall.com, ChickClick, Moxie Magazine, GetCrafty.com). Personal narrative as well as feature pieces ranging from general interest to women’s publications to style and design.

Also experienced in media consulting, speechwriting, ghostwriting, marketing, public relations, and writing for the web/social media. Clients included law firms, real estate agencies, brokerage firms, physicians, retail, nonprofit organizations, political candidates, and ad agencies. Specialites include earned media, article pitches, creative content, branding, social media, and community partnerships. Strong copy editing (Chicago and AP Styles for newspaper, magazine, and manuscript editing) and copy writing skills.

Contract work included:

• Media Buyer for Broad Street Interactive, focusing on targeted and hyper-local media distribution.
• Career Transition Consultant for Willows-Marsh, an employee lifecycle consulting agency.

Media planning, buying, content, and strategy for digital media agency. Specialty areas include political and advocacy campaigns, social media campaigns, partnerships with corporate media, audience-targeting, online influencers, marketing, and hyper-local traditional online media and blog advertising. E-mail marketing, SEO, SEM, online and in-app advertising, Google AdWords certified.

Ran press for Democratic candidate for Congress in the 1st District of SC against long-time incumbent. Handled marketing strategy, ad creation and placement, speech writing, web content, social media, earned media, research, and debate preparation. Linda Ketner came within 4% points of winning the election, despite running in a historically conservative district.

Formal political communications training through Democracy for America and Emily's List.

Management (including editing, training, quality control, brand integrity, and ongoing support) of editorial and design for 20 print markets across the U.S. Overseeing growth of a "national women's magazine with a local edge." Also: Writing monthly essays and content for other editorial pages, hiring editorial staff, assigning photos, setting monthly themes, marketing, events, editorial for special advertising sections, and other creative tasks. Assisted in re-branding and launch of Skirt.com in October 2007, including design, back end software (Drupal), blogging structure, user-generated content, and web exclusive content.

Sept. 2000 – Mar. 2003: Contributing editor. Copy writing, issue planning, editing, monthly columns.

Jan. 1998 – Sept. 2000: Contributing writer 

Management of editorial for mid-sized business newspaper. Reported directly to publisher. Developed content, assigned stories and columns, wrote stories and columns, hired staff writers and editorial assistants, assisted with re-launch and re-branding of web site, web content production and management, special advertising sections, events, and marketing. Assembled and managed editorial advisory board and community partnerships.

Jan. – May 2001: Copy editor and contributing writer.

Supervised department of 40+ staff members in customer service and collections area, including hiring, training, performance reviews, department budget, client relations, marketing and growth planning. Developed new employee training courses for Microsoft and proprietary software programs, as well as presentations on company culture and employee regulations.