EXPERIENCE
Freelance design, social media, web, and marketing consultant
- Created graphics and reports featured by major news sites as freelance designer for GWU, West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center, and other clients
- Increased Facebook engagement and likes as page manager for scuba diving business
- Grew online sales and traffic for watersports company by optimizing and integrating website, e-commerce, search ads, and broader online presence
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2008-2015
Managing Editor for Multimedia (January 2014-February 2015)
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Planning, filming, and editing video and creating graphic content to drive web traffic and downloads of key organizational “products” online
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Producing high-end print collateral for events and fundraising
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Oversight of email communications for fundraising events for national office and three regional offices
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Responsible for projects from inception to completion: planning, budgeting, writing, editing, layout and design, graphic selection, creating and overseeing
sendout, and print management
Managing Editor for Development (November 2010-December 2013)
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Extended brand identity and messaging through press releases, e-newsletters, email/print invitations, online registration pages, event collateral from programs to videos, marketing materials, and more
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Served as acting communications director through organizational transition and major annual conference
Associate Editor for Development (June 2009-November 2010)
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Produced email invitations and material to support fundraising activities and roughly forty annual events, including national conferences
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Launched a special e-newsletter for organization’s supporters
Marcia Robbins-Wilf Young Scholar (August 2008-June 2009)
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Provided research assistance and administrative support for program on democracy and counterradicalization
EDUCATION
Princeton University, Class of 2008
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Graduated magna cum laude in the Department of Politics with certificates (minors) in the Program of Near Eastern Studies and the Program in the Study of Women and Gender
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Winner of the Suzanne M. Huffman Memorial Senior Thesis Prize in Women and Gender Studies and the Quinn Morton Prize for the Freshmen Writing Seminar
RELEVANT SKILLS
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Organized, self-motivated, and constantly driven to improve workflow and to seek out new opportunities and solutions to problems
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Cvent Event Management Solutions; HTML, CSS, and content management system (ExpressionEngine)