Selected Publishing Experience

New York University, New York, NY

  • Social media manager (August 2013–present): writing posts (6-8 daily) for the university's Twitter and Facebook pages; monitoring and engaging with audience feedback; developing campaigns for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat; crisis communications
  • NYU Stories (August 2013-present): writing and editing feature stories for an online multimedia magazine about campus life and academics

 The New Yorker, New York, NY

  • Proofreader—print (April 2012–August 2013): proofreading Goings On About Town section for print magazine
  • Proofreader—digital (July 2011–August 2013): proofing, checking, and testing the tablet (iPad, iPhone, Kindle) editions of the magazine; proofreading XML version of the magazine for the web (January–August 2013)
  • Book Bench Intern (May 2010–December 2010): wrote and edited 3+ blog entries per week; aggregated book news; managed Twitter feed

 Forward, New York, NY

  • Freelance Copy Editor (May 2012–present): copy editing features, news stories, and reviews for weekly newspaper
  • Arts & Culture and Features Assistant (May 2011–May 2012): proofread stories for weekly newspaper; wrote photo captions and headlines; wrote and edited blog posts; reported and researched for major editorial projects

 Freelance Writer

Publications: NYU Alumni Magazine, The Believer, newyorker.com, Los Angeles Review of Books, Forward, Symphony

 Freelance Copy Editor

Projects: articles for Interview magazine; art history dissertation; book manuscript; professor’s application for tenure

 Symphony, League of American Orchestras, New York, NY

Editorial Intern (March 2010–July 2010):  reported and wrote feature article for Symphony and contributed daily to an online news digest

 Florida Center for Reading Research, Technical Projects Group, Tallahassee, FL

Support Specialist at the PMRN Help Desk (September 2008–June 2009): copy edited student assessments, parent letters, and legal documents; provided technical support (phone and email) to educators using Progress Monitoring and Reporting Network website; beta testing of new website; clerical work

Education

 New York University, New York, NY

             Master of Arts in Journalism—Cultural Reporting and Criticism (December 2010)

 The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

  • English Department Graduate Certificate in Publishing and Editing (August 2009)
  • Bachelor of Music in Bassoon Performance (May 2008)
  • econd major in English Literature (May 2008)

Palm Harbor University High School, Palm Harbor, FL

             International Baccalaureate Diploma (May 2004)