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EDUCATION

Hope College, Holland, Michigan

Graduated December 2022

Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing & Communication

GPA: 3.98/4.00

Summa Cum Laude

Phi Beta Kappa

Mortar Board

Lambda Pi Eta

SELECT EXPERIENCE

Marketing Manager                                                                                                      January 2025 ~ Present

Casa Mañana Theatre, Fort Worth, TX 

  • Created and maintained detailed social media and email campaign calendars

  • ​Managed Casa Mañana website; including creating and updating pages, coordinating with
    website development team to ensure functionality

  • Wrote and sent press releases; maintained list of press contacts

  • Maintained Tessitura lists to effectively target email campaigns to various patron groups

 

Marketing Coordinator                                                                                        October 2023 ~ January 2025

Casa Mañana Theatre, Fort Worth, TX 

  • Created social media content for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and LinkedIn

  • ​Created email campaigns for Broadway, Children’s Theatre, and Reid Cabaret production seasons as well as Education Department classes, Development giving campaigns, and more

  • Created graphic materials for the Casa Mañana website, social media, lobby, and more

 

Marketing & Pursuits Intern                                                                                      May 2023 ~ August 2023

DLR Group, Dallas, TX 

  • Wrote thought leadership articles for technical team members in the healthcare, sports, higher education, and culture and performing arts sectors 

  • Created and edited content for LinkedIn post campaigns, project narratives, press releases, and the company website 

  • Created project pages and resumes for proposals using Adobe InDesign

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Co-Editor                                                                                                                 May 2021 ~ December 2022

Opus Literary Magazine, Hope College, Holland, MI 

  • Grew “Opus Soup” event by strategically planning a program that featured 20 speakers and an audience of approximately 115 people in a 3 month period

  • Designed organization’s first website with Hope’s Public Affairs & Marketing team 
    Communicated with students and faculty through email, print, and social media marketing 

  • Ran meetings, hired staff, planned events, and designed layout of magazine  

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Poetry Editor                                                                                                               August 2020 ~ May 2021

Opus Literary Magazine, Hope College, Holland, MI 

  • Participated in multidisciplinary critiques where entries were selected for publication or rejected

  • Improved acceptance/rejection process by including constructive criticism in notification email 

  • Marketed via formal blog posts and informal word-of-mouth encouragement to potential submitting poets, thereby increasing the amount of submitting and accepted poets

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Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series Intern                                                                      April 2020 ~ May 2022

Hope College, Holland, MI 

  • Marketed author visits through social media leading to new followers and event attendees 

  • Prepared for author visits through extensive background research and reading selected works

  • Introduced authors at events and lead discussion between audience members and authors

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Editorial Intern                                                                                                            May 2021 ~ August 2021

Fort Worth Magazine, Fort Worth, TX

  • Wrote articles for website publication leading to higher social media and site engagement 

  • Expanded skills in research, fact-checking, and interviewing

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