Experience

YourTango

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Staff Writer

  • Jun 2022 - Present

• Editorial Fellow

  • Sep 2021 - Jun 2022



YourTango

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Editorial Intern

  • Dec 2020 - Mar 2021

  • Pitching headline and article ideas daily. • Writing/editing a minimum of 8 articles per week. • Building articles within the content management system • Finding images, memes for header photos, and in-body content. • Using current Search engine optimization (SEO) techniques on every article. • Periodically working with editorial content from partner sites, assisting editors with various projects, training in areas to expand skillset, editing article submissions from other writers, etc.



Columbia College Chicago

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Acquisition Editor for Hair Trigger Literary Magazine

  • Jan 2020 - May 2020

  As editorial board member for Hair Trigger 43, duties included: • Critiquing submissions: evaluating the overall quality of story material, based on plot, development, and story movement • Assessing plot for the length of the submissions, determining inconsistencies or plot-points in need of development; crafting revision guidelines, if warranted. • Deciding what material will appeal most to readers, and best represent the journal’s mission. • Other responsibilities include helping to ensure the fairness, timeliness, thoroughness, and civility of the peer-review editorial process, and adhering to the strict timelines for the publication.



Hypertext Magazine

• Greater Chicago Area

• Associate Editor

  • Jan 2020 - May 2020

  • Worked closely with the head editor of Hypertext Magazine to reorganize past literary magazines and create blog posts for them on the hypertext website. • Helped the head editor of Hypertext in researching grants that the magazine could qualify for. • Copy edited some submissions that came through Hypertext. • Sorted and organized materials such as physical files, tracking spreadsheets and reports. • Developed social media strategy templates for Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. • Assisted in the development of various print marketing materials.