DOTDASH MEREDITH
Associate Editor, Meredith Premium Publishing,
Home Design, September 2021 – Present

ST. LOUIS MAGAZINE
Managing Editor, April 2021 – August 2021
Associate Editor, August 2018 – April 2021

  • Pitch, package, write, and edit stories about health, family, home design, and fashion for print and online

    • Grew magazine’s home design and fashion vertical’s page views by 93 percent in 2019 (from 394,412 views a year to 759,925 views) and by 36 percent in 2020 (increasing to 1,040,755 views for the year)

  • Pitch, write, edit, and curate travel stories for St. Louis Magazine’s travel-focused newsletter

  • Use Google Analytics and social media interaction to judge which stories and angles are resonating with the magazine’s readers and plan future coverage accordingly

  • Write social copy, manage, and analyze the magazine group’s Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for its three publications

    • Increased the magazine group’s social following by 48,000 from 2019 to 2020

    • Grew St. Louis Magazine’s Instagram followers by 57 percent from 2019 to 2020 (28,000 to 44,000) and Design STL’s by 113 percent from 2019 to 2020 (2,900 to 6,200)

  • Help assemble daily newsletters with 16,000+ subscribers

  • Recruit, mentor, and manage two to five interns for three internship sessions a year

FLEISHMANHILLARD 
New Business & Social and Innovation Intern, May 2018 – August 2018

  • Identified potential clients using Google Analytics

  • Researched and compiled media monitoring reports

  • Wrote social copy for clients

  • Helped managed clients’ social channels

GRAND PRAIRIE MAGAZINE
Arts and Entertainment Contributor, August 2016 – August 2018

  • Wrote cover stories

  • Wrote profiles and lifestyle pieces

  • Copy edited Fall 2017 issue

BALL BEARINGS MAGAZINE 
Managing Editor, May 2016 – May 2018

  • Created publication’s style guide

  • Led copy team of more than 15 people

  • Managed content for WordPress site

  • Fact-checked and copy edited online and print articles

INDIANAPOLIS MONTHLY
Editorial Intern, May 2017 – August 2017

  • Wrote five print and three online articles

  • Fact-checked articles before release

  • Launched an online digital series about navigating the city as a recent college graduate

  • Edited fellow interns’ content for online digital series 

EDUCATION
Ball State University
Graduated May 2018
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism: Magazine Media
Minor in Creative Writing