Website Editor, phoebe journal (2023 – present):
– Assisted in print layout for issue 55.1
– Maintains website
– Creates and successfully integrates the format of winter and spring print editions into phoebe’s website utilizing WordPress and Elementor to expand the readership of the publication
– Collaborates with other members of staff to ensure that the website reflects the current initiatives and values of the publication
– Publish blog posts from the genre editors to promote the Spring Contest issue
– Creates marketing visuals for the website
Developmental & Editorial Coordinator, Poetry Daily (August 2023 – May 2025)
– Completed four newsletters weekly via MailChimp: adheres to brand style guide, copy edits, and uses HMTL to configure correct formatting for the daily poems
– Raised over $7,500 in grant funding for the organization: Amazon Literary Partnership (2024) and the Virginia Commission for the Arts (2024)
– Drafted, edited, revised, and submitted grant applications
– Collaborated on multiple email campaigns via MailChimp, including drafting language for a Behind the Scenes email and completed the email draft for a newsletter to honor Black History Month featuring contemporary Black poets
– Created promotional material via Canva
– Interviewed Jason Schneiderman at the Fall for the Book festival (2024, in person)
– Attended Association of Writers and Poets Conference (2024) and represented phoebe journal & Poetry Daily; discussed the organization’s work with any interested parties
– Presented at the Secondary Schools Writing Centers Association Conference. Discussed: inclusivity & creativity across the curriculum and how to foster student agency in academic spaces (2023); how to boost a high school writing center’s clientele (2017); how to use tutoring-related skills outside the high school writing center (2016)
– Served as a nonfiction reader for So to Speak Journal from 2021 – 2025, fiction reader for So to Speak Journal from 2024-2025, poetry manuscript reader for Stillhouse Press from 2024-2025