Freelance UX Consultant

Vegums - United Kingdom

Current position

• Evaluate the user experience on the Vegums.com landing page for navigation and content

• Evaluate the purchase and subscription change process

• Write a detailed report containing observations, key findings, and recommendation for redesign with a focus on an improved user flow and closer alignment with brand guidelines

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Freelance UX Writer (Volunteer)

Mott Haven Fridge - Bronx, NY

Current position

• Lead UX writer on website redesign

• Collaborate on re-branding initiative

• Write staff and board member bios

• Write Bronx Heroes weekly podcast introduction

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Freelance Content Writer

SilverBell Coaching - New York, NY

10/2020 - 02/2021​

• Led content audit and collaborated with CEO on website redesign

• Streamlined mission statement, process description, and staff bios 

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Playwright/Producer

NW 50+ - New York, NY

02/2019 - 06/2019

• Wrote the full-length play, A Little bit of Forever, during multiple fellowship residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

• Wrote compelling fundraising content and raised necessary capital to produce an Actors Equity Workshop production of A Little Bit of Forever

• Hired and managed an 8-person creative team

• Executed and filed actor contracts with Actors Equity

• Received a nomination for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize from New Georges Theatre Company

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Content Writer:  Real Estate

04/2014 - Present

Compass/The Corcoran Group - New York, NY

• Wrote detailed, research-based marketing content 

• Content writer for bi-weekly e-newsletter for broad business network

• Referral Director/Real estate sales agent

• Provide buyer and seller referrals to brokers at top NYC real estate firm

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Film Writer/Producer/Director

Original Kin Productions - New York, NY

02/2012 - 10/2014

• Wrote, produced and directed Blood from a Stoner a 28 minute narrative short film

• Produced fundraising event to raise production capital

• Hired and directed a cast of well-known professional actors

• Hired and managed a 17-person crew

• Coordinated with Mayor’s Office of Film and Television to receive permit

• Wrote content for Indiegogo online crowdsourcing platform and raised post-production capital

• Premiered Blood from a Stoner in numerous film festivals including FilmColumbia, Chain Film Festival, and Big Apple Film Festival

 

Teaching Artist

Teachers & Writers Collaborative - New York, NY

01/1999 - 12/2003

Teacher/writer-in-residence at various public elementary and middle schools throughout the five boroughs, including a psychiatric day program at a hospital site

• Taught poetry and creative writing to both regular and special needs populations

• Collaborated with classroom teachers in determining needs of each population

• Designed and implemented writing curriculum according to the needs of each population

• Compiled, organized and designed an anthology of student’s poems, stories and drawings as the culminating result of each residency

• Organized and directed assemblies in which students present their work to parents and teachers

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Freelance Writer

Cohn Communications, New York, NY   

09/1999 - 12/1999

• Conceived, wrote and cast instructional corporate training video depicting various examples of workplace harassment