For work, you’ll find me creating content or managing projects. As a creator, my skillset includes filmmaking, photography, writing, and the basics of design.

Helping create a world where everyone can thrive is what drives me. Health and equity are my passions.

For joy, you’ll find me walking with my husband and chocolate lab ThunderBear, reading a rom com, or cackling with my friends while drinking tea.

Production Manager | Dotdash Meredith
Des Moines, Iowa ◦ July 2022 – now

• Produce Health and Real Simple brand newsletters using Dreamweaver and Iterable

• Serve as the single point of contact for production of all project initiatives and revisions for Health and Real Simple brand newsletters

• Ensure email production and quality assurance processes are followed correctly and completely and supporting documents are properly kept for all email campaigns

• Preview newsletters for quality assurance prior to account team review

• Monitor email trends and advise on best practices

Marketing Project Manager | Lutheran Services in Iowa
Des Moines, Iowa ◦ February 2020 – July 2022

• Managed the daily workflow of the Marketing team and the development of print, digital, social, and advocacy projects and materials for LSI’s six service lines

• Created, and improved execution of, annual marketing plans to help achieve the business goals of LSI service lines

• Produced, directed, and distributed LSI films and multimedia projects; led work with external vendors to achieve the creative vision

• Managed and crafted content for LSI's main Facebook and LSI's Foster Care Facebook - increased followers by 44%; led creation of LSI Global Greens' Facebook and Instagram

• Managed Facebook ads for LSI’s six service lines

• Developed and implemented monthly metrics reports

• Provided input for the LSI brand and all external marketing materials, helping ensure a consistent and effective brand message was achieved

Digital Content Coordinator | SEIU  (Contract)                        
Des Moines, Iowa ◦ May 2019 – Jan. 2020

• Created daily content from graphics to video for nationwide social channels, email campaigns, and web pages; based content on daily labor market research

• Developed and implemented social media strategy for injecting Fight for $15 campaign narrative into 2020 political cycle

• Managed and created content for Iowa Fight for $15 Facebook and Twitter accounts

• Covered live events via live tweeting and videography

Communications Specialist | EMBARC  (Contract)      
Des Moines, Iowa  ◦ Sept. 2018 – May 2019

• Produced, directed, shot, and edited audiovisual multimedia pieces to bolster fundraising campaigns to support refugees in Iowa 

• Created and managed content for Facebook, Twitter, and email blasts for largest annual fundraiser that sold out of tickets

Filmmaker and Producer
What Remains | Bonn, Germany | May - June 2018
Produced, directed, shot, and edited documentary short film on CARE International's Climate Heroine Antje Grothus’ fight to save the remaining 10% of a forest from an energy company determined to cut what remains

American Life | Chicago, Illinois | May 2017 - Dec. 2018
Directed and co-wrote fiction short about 17-year-old Michael who uses boxing for moments of escape from the violence surrounding him in his Chicago community
Best Short, Boston Film Festival, 2019

70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green | Chicago, Illinois | May 2017 - May 2018
Increased the feature length documentary’s Facebook likes 56% and Twitter followers 59%; wrote and edited email blasts to educational institutions about hosting screenings

Happy Tragedy | Chicago, Illinois | Aug. 2017 - Jan. 2018
Produced, directed, and shot documentary short film about how a young man navigates his first few months living with HIV, while not giving up on his dream of acting
Winner, First in the Nation Film Festival, 2020

Teaching Assistant | Columbia College Chicago                             
Chicago, Illinois ◦ Aug. 2016–June 2018

• Assisted Cinema and Television Arts professors in teaching seven undergraduate courses in Documentary Storytelling, Documentary Production, World Cinema, Screenwriting, and Transmedia

Online Organizer | Iowa CCI                                                          
Des Moines, IA  ◦ April 2014–Aug. 2016

• Created digital content and managed email marketing, social media, and websites; assessed content needs based on monthly metrics

• Grew Facebook likes 173% and Twitter followers 193%; tripled email list via integrated communications plan and multivariate testing

• Completed 6-month strategic communications training with New Media Mentors

Production Skills

Camera Operation: Canon 60D, 80D, 7D Mark II; Sony PMW-EX1R, X70, FS7

Location Sound: Zoom F4 Multitrack Field Recorder, Zoom H4N Pro, wireless lav mics, boom mics

Editing: Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign

Additional Skills

Software: PowerBase CRM, Mailchimp, Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro, Asana, Dreamweaver

Writing: News and press release, advocacy, screenwriting, email newsletters, social media

Marketing: Email marketing, social media, campaign management and ideation

Planning: Project planning, event planning

Filmography
Director/Videographer: What Remains documentary short
Bonn, Germany (June 2018)
Official selection, 2019 Chicago Feminist Film Festival

Writer/Director: American Life fiction short
Chicago, Illinois (October 2017 – Dec. 2018)
2018 Albert P. Weisman Award; 2018 Columbia College Production Fund Award; Best Short Film, 2019 Boston Film Festival

Director/Videographer: Happy Tragedy documentary short
Chicago, Illinois (August 2017 – Jan. 2018)
2018 Manifest Urban Arts Festival screening, Chicago

Writer/Director: Falling Stars fiction short
Chicago, Illinois (Jan. – Feb. 2017)
Official selection, 2018 Chicago Feminist Film Festival; 2017 Columbia College Production Fund Award

Education
M.F.A. Cinema Directing
Columbia College Chicago  | Chicago, Illinois | 3.9 GPA  | December 2018

B.S. Journalism + International Studies
Iowa State University  | Ames, IA | 3.82 GPA  | May 2013