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Work experience

PUBLISHING CONCEPTS, INC. – Quality Assurance Editor
August 2022-February 2023
Work on a fourteen-person team to respond to a variety of daily needs related to the company’s editing and publication processes. Complete large-scale quality assurance checks in Microsoft Access, communicate project progress and issues to other teams such as project management and data management, and complete editing jobs with specialized formatting in response to partner requirements.

PUBLISHING CONCEPTS, INC. – Oral History Project Editor
August 2022-February 2023
Work with the company’s Oral History Project, editing interview transcripts of various lengths for publication in digital and book form. Examine each text for company style guide adherence, appropriate content, grammar, length, and narrative flow, working with lead editors’ directives concerning deadline management and project-specific style requirements. Serve on the editing team’s quality auditing team, checking other editors’ work for grammar and style guide issues twice a week.

UMW WRITING CENTER – Lead Consultant
January 2019-May 2022
Worked with students to improve their papers at any step from brainstorming to the final edits. Cultivated a familiarity with grammar, punctuation, clarity, organization, and a variety of citation styles. Created teaching materials and social media content for the Writing Center, researched and implemented how its pedagogy can be adjusted to English language learners, and and took part in its transitions to remote and hybrid operations. Managed the Writing Center’s Twitter account from September 2020 to May 2022, helping to implement web accessibility policies into its social media operations. Assisted with the recruitment, scheduling, and training of Spring 2022 trainees.

US GHOST ADVENTURES – Guide
May 2021-August 2021
Applied storytelling, performance, and public speaking skills to lead groups of 15-45 people on ghost tours in Colonial Williamsburg, balancing historical documentation with creative storytelling for informative entertainment. 

RAPPAHANNOCK REVIEW – Design Editor
August 2020-December 2020
Worked as part of a two-person team to create and format webpages for the Rappahannock Review’s 8.1 issue using WordPress and Elementor. Read submissions, made publication decisions as part of the poetry editorial team, and wrote and edited author interviews.

Skills 

• • Written and verbal communication
  • Editing and revision (Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat)
  • Quality assurance
  • Fast-paced writing  and editing on a deadline
  • Academic and company style guide adherence
  • Microsoft Office and Google suites, Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Tutoring, public speaking, small group communication
  • Web accessibility guidelines and adherence checkers
  • HTML and CSS
  • Research and analysis
  • WordPress and Omeka
  • Digital mapping and timeline tools
  • Graphics creation (Canva, Adobe Spark)
  • Proficient Spanish and fluent Russian
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  Portfolio

  • • View examples of my written work.
    • View examples of my digital work.

  Education

  University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg – BA in English
  August 2018-June 2022
  Graduated Summa Cum Laude with departmental and university honors. Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Tau Delta member.
  English major, Digital Studies minor.
  Overall GPA: 3.98; Major GPA: 4.0. See below for academic work.

  Jamestown High School, Williamsburg – Honors Diploma
  September 2016-June 2018

  Projects and Activities

  • Worked on a five-person team producing a semester-long multimedia digital history project celebrating Big Five civil rights leader James L. Farmer’s educational impact at the University of Mary Washington in spring 2020, switching from in-person to remote operations midway through the semester.
    
  • Completed numerous independent digital projects
  • Completed 20 hours of service work with the Central Rappahannock Library’s MakerLab in Fall of 2019
  • Completed 25 hours of service work in the Fredericksburg community as part of UMW-wide service events
  • Served on the UMW Honors Student Advisory Council from Fall 2019 to Spring 2020
  • Received Accessibility 101 training from the UMW Office of Disability Resources in Fall 2019
  • Completed course sequences in linguistics, creative nonfiction, and applied digital tools
  • Have engaged in freelance paid editing work for published academic  writing from 2021 through present
   

  Presentations and Studies

  • Presented short paper “Pinning Your Collar Straight: Adulthood in Little Women” at Spring 2019 English and Linguistics Symposium
  • Presented long paper “‘You Russ in Russia’: Comparing Russian Translations of Walt Whitman” at Spring 2021 English and Linguistics Symposium
  • Presented long paper “‘Tea With Mr. Darcy’: Audience and Commodification at Bath’s Jane Austen Centre” at Spring 2022 Virginia Collegiate Honors Conference
  • Presented 40-page independent study paper “Little Women, Little Houses: Authorship and Authority in Louisa May Alcott and Laura Ingalls Wilder,” 10-page seminar paper “Comrades and Selves: Calculating Individualism and Collectivism in First-Person World War I Prose,” and creative nonfiction flash essay “What’s the use of worrying?” at Spring 2022 English and Linguistics Symposium
  • Participated in an independent study with the University of Gloucester’s Dr. Debby Thacker in Fall 2021, producing the long paper “‘Here is a story to believe…’: Master- and Counter-Narratives in Pullman, Pratchett, and Jones”
  • Participated in an independent study with UMW’s Dr. Mara Scanlon in Spring 2022, producing the long paper “Little Women, Little Houses: Authorship and Authority in Louisa May Alcott and Laura Ingalls Wilder.” This paper received departmental honors and can be read through UMW Libraries here