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WRITING RESUME

Editorial Experience:

  • KION News; managing editor, 2024 – present

  • Good Times Santa Cruz and Metro Silicon Valley, managing editor, 2023 – 2024

  • Mortgage Match, St. Louis, Missouri, copy editor, 2011 – 2012

  • Movmnt Magazine, New York City, NY, copy and production editor, 2007 – 2009

  • U.25 Magazine, San Antonio, TX, editorial board, 2007 - 2008

  • Dance Magazine, New York City, NY, editorial intern, 2007

  • DIG Magazine, (CSULB Campus) Long Beach, CA, managing editor, 2006 – 2007

  • Daily Forty-Niner Newspaper, (CSULB Campus) Long Beach, CA, city editor, 2005

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Print Newspaper & Magazine Writing:

  • Beautiful/Decay

  • Chicago Tribune

  • The Daily Forty-Niner Newspaper

  • Dance

  • DIG

  • Ehow

  • E.L.M.

  • The Gangplank

  • IEFEEXpress

  • L.A. Splash

  • Move

  • Movmnt

  • Regional Small Business

  • Santa Cruz Style

  • Valley Scene

  • Volare Pole and Aerial Art

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Blogging, Online & Content Writing:

  • TheCircumference

  • ccMyself

  • Commentarista

  • Demand Studios

  • DirectEyewear

  • examiner.com

  • Helium

  • Huffington Post

  • InteractMedia

  • Mocksa

  • Poleista.com

  • Remilon

  • Suite101

  • SOJONES

  • Stylywear.com

  • textbroker

  • Triond

  • Yahoo! Contributors Network

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Broadcasting:

  • KSCO, Santa Cruz, CA, radio show host of ‘In the Air Tonight,’ 2015

  • KBeach Radio, (CSULB Campus), Long Beach, CA, disc jockey Jazzerina Jaye, 2007

  • Fox News Channel, Los Angeles, CA, intern, 2004

  • "The Life,” (television pilot), Los Angeles, CA, hostess, 2004

 

Books:

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Marketing & Communications: 

  • Own an experiential and guerrilla marketing company, Stellaria Creative Company (2013 – present)

  • Worked as the Marketing and Communications Director for the Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery (2018 – present)

  • Worked as a lead brand ambassador (manager) for GMR Marketing (2017 – present)

  • Worked as a brand ambassador, field marketer and experiential marketer for ATM Promo, Extreme Marketing and Productions Plus (2017 – present)

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Memberships:

  • Dramatists Guild

  • Musical Theatre Writers

  • Society of Professional Journalists

  • American Women in Radio and Television

  • Freelancer’s Union

  • Event Marketer

  • Women in Events

  • Public Relations Student Society of America (CSULB)

  • Partners for Success (CSULB)

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Education & Professional Development:

  • California State University, Long Beach, Calif. B.A. in print journalism w/French, international studies minor, emphasis in dance, May 2007, GPA 3.0

  • Institut des Études Français pour Étudiants Étrangers (IEFEE), Aix-Marseille III, Aix-en-Provence, France. Advanced journalism intensive; wrote, designed, published articles in IEFEEXpress and Ladies Room magazines

  • Universal Class' Novel Writing and Freelance Writing courses

  • Seth Godin’s Marketing Seminar, Creative’s Workshop and Writing in Community courses

  • Dramatist’s Guild Professional Certification

  • Part of an ongoing theatrical writers’ group from MusicalWriters.com

 

Skills & Misc. Achievements:

  • Member of the Dramatists Guild and Alliance for Women in Media

  • Serial entrepreneur (owned multiple businesses)

  • CPR & First Aid certified

  • Semi-fluent in French

  • $1’000 journalism scholarship from Toyota (CSULB)

  • Best Overall Magazine Editor (CSULB)

  • Leadership Academy Graduate (CSULB)

  • French Club (CSULB)

  • MS Word

  • Adobe InDesign

  • Acrobat Pro.

  • Photoshop/Illustrator

  • Dropbox

  • Article Manager

  • WordPress

  • Google platforms (sheets, docs, slideshow, etc.)

  • AP, Chicago, MLA and APA writing styles

  • Staff photographer, Trapeze School New York (2011)

  • Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) tutor, Long Beach, CA (2002 – 2005)

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