Experience

Your Schenectady

• United States
• Internet News
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Social Media Manager

  • Apr 2023 - Present



Barnes & Noble, Inc.

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Bookseller

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  I oversee the store's social media team that manages the store's online presence. We make posts based off of trends, promotions, sales, and monthly overviews. As a team, we collaborate on ideas and plan ahead on posts we hope to execute. We ensure the store's social media to reach an audience by applying SEO and metadata tags to all posts. As a lead on the team, it is also my responsibility to respond to direct messages and comments. I also recruit people to join the team and guide them on expectations that need to be maintain for the social media accounts. Aside from that, I perform bookseller duties such as improving the customer experience through excellent customer service, paying attention to store presentation, assisting in opening and closing the store in with everything in order and on time, requesting to have materials ordered based off of trends and sales, and have trained and supervised multiple new employees on the sales floor and the cafe department. Show less



The Chronicle at The College of Saint Rose

• Albany, New York Area

• Executive Editor

  • May 2018 - May 2021

  (Served as the Opinions Editor from June 2018-May 2020) Reported to Executive Editor on a weekly basis, mentored new writers, edited multiple stories weekly on deadline, digitally laid out stories on template using Adobe InDesign, made edits for photos using Adobe Photoshop, mentored a high school student twice a week who served as the newspaper's intern, tabled at multiple school events such as open house, orientation day, club fairs, club fairs to represent student culture on campus (Promoted to Executive Editor as of June 2020) Led team of multiple editors on a daily basis to ensure the success of the paper, corresponded with publishing company, reviewed spending and budget, interviewed and hired new people at the end of school year, made final edits to file before sending it out for publishing, recruited new writers, distributed newspapers to multiple stands around campus and neighboring businesses, advertised the newspaper via social media and word of mouth, wrote up monthly reports on The Chronicle's activity to send to the Student Association board Show less



Baby Institute

• Albany, New York Area

• Team Leader

  • Jul 2014 - Aug 2020

  Kept team members on schedule for day's activities, set up and break down room at beginning/end of the day Kept team members on schedule for day's activities, set up and break down room at beginning/end of the day



Neil Hellman Library at The College of Saint Rose

• Albany, New York Area

• Circulation Assistant

  • Sep 2017 - May 2020



Albany County Legislative Black Caucas

• Albany, New York Area

• Intern

  • Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

  With two other interns, we collaborated on website building, research on local issues/concerns, and campaigning for Wanda Willingham, Albany County Legislator for the Third District. I was responsible for making newsletters and writing articles with the research we complied to be published on her website and shared with her colleagues and fellow legislators. Willingham personally requested to my return for same position after first interning with her in summer of 2018. I also worked with her (upon personal request) for about three weeks in the winter of 2018 to assist with post-election materials. Show less