Experience

The Colorado Springs School

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Communications & Marketing Manager

  • Jan 2019 - Present

  CSS is an independent college-prep and international school serving students from prekindergarten through high school. Duties include: • School photographer capturing daily life on our 28-acre campus to feature on the school's website at css.org, social media channels, and in marketing materials such as digital and print ads • Strategically plan content for the school's social media channels • Develop feature stories and press releases that highlight students, faculty/staff, and school programs • Maintain and update the school's website, which underwent a major redesign in 2021 • Produce a monthly school e-newsletter for students, parents, grandparents, and faculty/staff • Design marketing materials, including digital and print ads, postcards, and pamphlets • Proof and edit internal and external communications • Help plan the Gala & Auction, the school's largest annual fundraiser Show less



Various Companies

• United States
• 700 & Above Employee

• Freelance Photographer

  • Jun 2012 - Present

  Client list includes: Kidpower of Colorado • Photograph children learning personal safety skills for marketing materials, the group's website, and social media channels. Colorado Springs Health Foundation • Photograph grant recipients for feature stories, the foundation's website, and its annual reports. Sachs Foundation • Photographed Colorado College students in the foundation's teacher development program for a feature story in Forbes. The program works with college and university education schools in Colorado to identify Black undergraduate students who are considering a career in education. Memorial Hospital - University of Colorado Health (UCHealth) • Provided cover photos and inside images to illustrate stories in Peak Living, the health system's quarterly health magazine. Assignments included photographing a perfusionist during open-heart surgery; a 20-year-old blind Paralympic swimmer who holds several world records; and a 7-year-old girl with brittle bone disease who had never been able to stand because of her condition. • Photographed infants in carseats and children wearing seat belts for the Kohl’s Cares Car Safety Program, a hospital partner, for brochures, newspaper ads, and billboards. • Photographed doctors for welcome ads in local newspapers. • Provided all of the photos for the 2010 and 2011 calendars for the Children’s Hospital Colorado at Memorial Hospital. Show less



Anslee Wolfe Photography

• Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

• Photographer

  • May 2007 - Jun 2021

  • Operate my own photography business, serving as the sole photographer, web designer, and copywriter for my website and marketing materials. • Also offer photography for weddings, families, dogs, and high school seniors. • One wedding featured in The Knot Colorado magazine and a family photo featured in Modern Dog magazine. • Built and maintained different versions of my website, working in different content-management systems over the years. • Use graphic design to create various products, including banners, print ads, and wedding announcements. Show less



University of Colorado Colorado Springs

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Freelance Writer & Photographer

  • Jul 2017 - Apr 2019

  • Write profiles and provide portraits of faculty to highlight the university's diverse and innovative members through storytelling to better connect them with the students and community. • Faculty share not only their accomplishments but their struggles as well, including one who talked about how the death of her 8-month-old son led to her becoming a school counselor and how she survived by helping others move through their grief. • Profiles are posted on the UCCS website, social media channels, and in marketing materials. • Also profile UCCS alum to highlight how they are contributing to the world. • Wrote a story and provided photos on how a UCCS nursing program exposes students to community health by helping first-time parents. Show less



Association of International Certified Professional Accountants

• United States
• Accounting
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Freelance Writer

  • Apr 2017 - Jan 2019

  • A collaboration between the American Institute of CPAs based in Durham, NC, and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) based in London, the association is considered the most influential body of professional accountants, representing more than 650,000 members worldwide. • Assignments have included the countries most likely to be affected by automation in the workforce, how to become a more creative thinker, how to keep smartphones from becoming a distraction in college classrooms, how to teach children financial responsibility, and how to get the most out of health savings accounts. • Also have rewritten news releases on complex accounting codes. • Features appear in various publications, including Financial Management, a global magazine. Show less



The Colorado Springs Gazette, LLC

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance Writer

  • Mar 2007 - Mar 2017

  • Wrote for the Best & Brightest series on high school seniors nominated for excelling academically and contributing to their schools and communities, including one who grew algae in her bedroom to research alternative bio-fuels and attended the White House Science Fair.• Wrote for the Empty Stocking Fund series to raise money for area charities.

• Staff Crime Reporter

  • Sep 2000 - Mar 2007

  • Included general assignments, courts, education, city government and regional coverage.• Received two Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters awards for crime beatreporting and spot news reporting.• Organized and led the annual package on deadly auto crashes in El Paso and Teller counties,analyzing police reports for trends and profiling a handful of victims.• Spent several days at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Training Academy in Quantico, VA, for a rare look at how recruits train for four months before becoming special agents.• Mentored college interns on the crime beat. Show less