Experience

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  Pilottownstories.wordpress.com

  • Greater New Orleans Area

  • Social Media Manager / Writer / Editor / Interviewer

    • Feb 2012 - Present
    • Greater New Orleans Area

    Arranged and conducted interviews with former residents of the island with the help of Plaquemines Parish Historian Rod Lincoln. I also maintain the website and social media platform. This site features the stories of the residents of Pilottown, Louisiana from lifelong residents to those who summ...

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  Peter Mayer Advertising

  • Greater New Orleans Area

  • Copy Editor / Senior Proofreader / QA Specialist / Production Assistant / Voi...

    • 2003 - Present
    • Greater New Orleans Area

    • Copy Editing, Proofreading, Quality Assurance testing and producing work for our various clients • Web, Print, Radio and Television: magazines, tour guides, direct mail, online banner and print ads for various regional and national clients• I also assist in editing New Business proposals, both ...

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  Natural Awakenings Magazine

  • Greater New Orleans Area

  • Editor

    • Nov 2016 - Aug 2018
    • Greater New Orleans Area

    Editing for clarity and consistent style.

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  The Porch Project: Porch Portraits of New Orleans

  • Greater New Orleans Area

  • Copy Editor

    • Feb 2017 - Mar 2018
    • Greater New Orleans Area

    Proofread and Copy Edited this self-published photo book by Danielle Shubert.https://www.amazon.com/Porch-Project-Danielle-Shubert/dp/1389141454/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1521944196&sr=8-2&keywords=danielle+shubert

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  The Moran Group

  • Greater New Orleans Area

  • QA Specialist

    • Dec 2016 - Feb 2018
    • Greater New Orleans Area

    Web maintenance for various clients' websites, blogs and social media pages. Working on the front and back ends. We are a Google Premier partner, and I also assist the SEM team with ad campaigns built in AdWords and Bing.

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  Search Influence

  • Greater New Orleans Area

  • Freelance Copywriter

    • Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
    • Greater New Orleans Area

    Researching and writing articles, press releases and blog posts.

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  Healing Tao Instructors Association of the Amer...

  • Writer

    • Sep 2015 - Dec 2015

    Published an article entitled "Marrying the Heart and the Brain" on the organization's website www.healing-tao.org - The essay draws comparisons between martial arts disciplines and musical performance.

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  Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans

  • Tulane University

  • ESL Teacher

    • Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
    • Tulane University

    Created lesson plans and taught English as a secondary language to approximately 10-15 students between the ages of 16 and 60. My students had moved to New Orleans from Haiti, Eastern Europe, and various places in South America and Asia. I have trained and received my certification in TESOL throu...

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  Chronicled the stories of WWII Veteran Joe Cass...

  • New Orleans

  • Editor / Ghost Writer

    • Feb 2003 - Aug 2005
    • New Orleans

    Stories of his 3 years in various prison camps in the Philippines

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  Society for the Study of the Short Story

  • Editor / Proofreader for Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story

    • Jan 2002 - Feb 2004

  • Copy Editor / Proofreader for A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English

    • Mar 2001 - May 2003

    Assisted Erin Fallon and Mary Rohrberger in copy editing, organizing and fact checking A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English

  • Editor / Proofreader

    • Sep 1999 - May 2003

    Copy Edited various publications as well as assisted in organizing the Society's conferences.

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  Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society's Words...

  • Greater New Orleans Area

  • Writer

    • Feb 2002 - Aug 2002
    • Greater New Orleans Area

    "Stanley Crouch, Go Down Moses, and Jazz." "State of the Old Verities in La La Land - the Hollywood Experience." "New from Hollywood" - a review of Karen Essex's Pharaoh