EXPERIENCE
Employment and Engagement
Feb 2023Â - May 2023
PERSEUS SUBRIGHTS INTERN, HACHETTE BOOK GROUP
-Evaluate, process permissions, rights requests across 11 imprints
-Monitor 15 inboxes; submit 4 weekly deals to Pub Lunch
-Sell to and negotiate with global sub agents, foreign publishers
-Create pitch materials and presentations for book fairs
-Assist with production requests, author approvals
-Create, send submission materials; manage and update databases
October 2022 - February 2023
DIGITAL MEDIA INTERN, NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST
-Craft and share content through social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube), Enewsletters, and blog posts.
-Post to social media accounts 4-6 times per week, using captivating photos, stories, news, and educational facts to elevate the public’s understanding of and support for wild nature.
-Cultivate and increase the Wilderness Trust’s social media followers and connections.
-Interview at least one landowner, donor, or conservation partner for a feature story.
-Assist with various communications administrative tasks, including but not limited to: captioning photos and videos for accessibility; archiving digital content; organizing photography.
-Contribute meaningful work, access professional development and learning opportunities, identify career goals and opportunities, and develop skills and relationships.
October, 2022
INTERN, BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL
-Creating, promoting, and running the annual Book Hunt program.
-Helping to run the 8-hour festival, as well as the evening activities the day before.
-Promoting the festival through graphic design, social media marketing, communication with media outlets and community organizations, and distribution of marketing collateral.
-Also assisting with copywriting and editing; creating and maintaining documents and spreadsheets using Word, Excel, Google Drive, and Google Forms; and managing website content.
February 2022Â - January 2023
LITERARY ASSISTANT FOR DANIELLE TRUSSONI
-Manage calendar, Amazon KDP, email accounts, and website.
-Organize monthly newsletter, audience development and engagement.
-Ad hoc problem-solving for personal and career situations.
June 2022Â - August 2022
MARKETING INTERN, HARPERCOLLINS
-Research and outreach to influencers, bookstagrammers and
companies for key campaign outreach.
-Coordinate mailings to bookstagrammers social media influencers.
-Prep materials for key weekly and seasonal marketing meetings.
-Create engaging posts for our imprint’s official social media channels.
January 2022 - May 2022
EDITORIAL INTERN, AEVITAS CREATIVE MANAGEMENT
-Create detailed reader’s reports, evaluate fiction and nonfiction proposals
-Copyedit and proofread manuscripts, draft outreach letters and newsletters
-Research comp titles, Bookscan numbers, potential clients, and book ideas
-Distribute nonpaying royalty statements, other administrative tasks
-Promote agency on social media, post about client and book news
-Participate in meetings across various departments
Fall 2020 - Winter 2021
PUBLISHER, WILDE PRESS, BOSTON
Create and direct production calendar.
Manage production team heads
Advocate for authors along journey to publication
Oversee board members
Lead executive board meetings
Sort submissions
Manage email queries
Fall 2020 - Winter 2021
PRESIDENT, UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS FOR PUBLISHING
Organize and lead executive board meetings
Run educational workshop and panels
Recruit new members
Oversee hiring of new leadership
August 2021 - May 2022
SOCIAL MEDIA/NEWS ASSISTANT, WLP DEPARTMENT AT EMERSON
Manage Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram posts and messages
Research news for running list, scheduled out months ahead
Organize inventories for academic records, staffing, and tech equipment
Film, photograph, broadcast, and archive department series and events
Design posters and signs via Canva & Operate Box & Microsoft Office
May 2021 - August 2021
CONTENT PUBLISHING INTERN, APPLIED SYSTEMS, INC.
Proofread 200 articles, uploaded to custom content management system
Designed and edited a 35-page editorial style guide for 15-person content team
Wrote a best practices document on alternative text accessibility and procedures
Wrote weekly employee benefits articles on diversity and inclusion in workplace
Researched daily industry trends, news, and statistics from a dozen sources
May 2020 - August 2020
EDITORIAL INTERN, THE DIGEST MAGAZINE
Only intern selected to evaluate drafts: substantive, copy, fact-checking
Researched, wrote, and uploaded entertainment, local events, human interest stories
Top-ranked for most popular articles on bi-weekly traffic score reports
Wrote featured articles for both online blog and print issues
August 2019Â - December 2022
RESIDENT ASSISTANT
Design, propose, and execute monthly educational and community-building programs
Market through Facebook, Instagram, Emerson social media, and printed fliers
Create most highly attended program in my building, an arts-and-crafts event
Manage Resident Director office and monitor Duty Phone weekly, 12-hour periods
May 2017 - July 2019
CASHIER, SERVICE HOST, CONCIERGE
Sesame Place Theme Park.Â
Recipient of two positive write-ups for customer service and problem-solving. Awardee of Courtesy Challenge for consistently outstanding guest interaction. Offering special promotions with suggestive selling techniques. Stocking and displaying merchandise.
Selected as concierge to various celebrities.
September 2019Â - August 2020
ASSISTANT EVENTS COORDINATOR
Wilde Press Publishing Group, which puts out two manuscripts per semester. Active at weekly Executive Board meetings. Aid in the development and execution of author tour and book launch events. Booking reservations.
ADDITIONAL PUBLISHING ROLES
Sept 2018 - December 2020
ROLES IN
BOOK PUBLISHING, WILDE PRESS
Event Coordinator Associate Editor
Associate Copyeditor
Design Associate
Associate eBook designer
Marketing Associate
Sept 2019Â - December 2022
Copy edited monthly articles for YourMag, Boston.
Chicago Style training
COPY EDITOR
Sept 2019 - August 2021
STAFF READER
Weekly submission packets and editorial meetings
Prose Reader for Stork Literary Magazine
Poetry Reader for Concrete Literary Magazine
Also Reader for the Emerson Review, Sept 2018 - May 2019
September 2019Â - May 2021
STAFF WRITER
Social commentative fiction for Gauge Magazine
Science-researched personal article for EmMag
Online weekly writer for Atlas Magazine