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Editor, Speechwriter Resume
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| Desired Industry: Advertising |
SpiderID: 84716 |
| Desired Job Location: Baltimore, Maryland |
Date Posted: 8/19/2024 |
| Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent |
Availability Date: One week |
| Desired Wage: 65000 |
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U.S. Work Authorization: Yes |
| Job Level: Experienced with over 2 years experience |
Willing to Travel: Yes, Less Than 25% |
| Highest Degree Attained: Bachelors |
Willing to Relocate: Yes |
Objective:
Creative, forward-thinking, and performance-driven professional, pursuing a challenging career to further utilize knowledge and skills and contribute to refining creative writing projects and nurturing writers’ voices.
Well-versed in editing manuscripts, articles, and content across various genres to ensure clarity, coherence, and artistic integrity. Skilled at providing constructive feedback to students to effectively manage writing projects and to elevate storytelling and engage audiences. Effective at promoting literary excellence and fostering creativity in writing as well as supporting authors and creators in realizing artistic vision and delivering impactful content to diverse audiences. Equipped with solid communication skills to provide constructive feedback, facilitate revisions, and maintain effective relationships with contributors. Articulate communicator, multilingual in English, Spanish, and Kiswahili.
Experience:
The Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER, WRITING SEMINARS DEPARTMENT Aug 2022–May 2023
Collaborated with professors and the student council in the Writing Seminars Department to arrange student-led extracurricular activities, including poetry readings and semesterly course preview events.
WRITING AND PUBLISHING INTERN Oct 2021–May 2022
Took part in the JHUP’s inaugural cohort of interns, gaining valuable experience in academic publishing.
Contributed to projects across departments, such as journals, the university press’ online catalog (MUSE), and Metadata.
Gained insights into the publishing house’s book acquisitions, customer service, and marketing strategies.
Successfully participated in the equality, justice, and inclusivity (EJI) collaborative project, making a solid contribution to the creation of the EJI marketing catalog.
TEACHER, CREATIVE WRITING Aug 2021–Dec 2021
Partnered with Writers in Baltimore Schools, a local nonprofit organization, in providing instruction for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders on foundational concepts of fiction and poetry writing.
Wrote lesson plans and prepared educational materials for class sessions aimed at familiarizing students with genres, literary terms, and plot structures.
Reviewed and supported students in editing and preparing their workshop pieces for submission to a poetry anthology.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Childbirth Survival International, Baltimore, MD
Youth Advocate: Apr 2014–Present
- Render assistance in the annual planning and preparation of a summer camp program for adolescent girls, benefiting 20 to 50 girls from West Baltimore and other underserved communities in Baltimore City.
- Assume full accountability for overseeing, arranging, and coordinating activities for the girls’ summer camp program, including organizing local field trips, identifying speakers, and assuring a safe learning environment.
- Support online fundraising campaigns to benefit CSI Baltimore's programs for adolescent girls in Baltimore City and County
- Participate in a monthly reading program at Interim Transitional Housing in Baltimore, focused on enhancing children's reading and writing abilities to prepare them for success in pre-K and beyond.
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
COVID-19 Vaccine Awareness Advocate: Jul 2021–Feb 2022
- Served as a volunteer advocate in the American Muslim Health Professionals, a nonprofit organization, to raise awareness about vaccines, which involved planning an outreach project within the local religious community to promote COVID-19 safety measures.
- Organized a town hall at Masjid Al-Rahmah, where community members had the opportunity to learn about COVID-19 safety measures and the vaccine and ask questions to enhance their understanding of COVID-19.
- Assisted MedStar Health professionals in coordinating COVID-19 vaccine initiative at Masjid Al-Rahmah, where community members received complimentary COVID-19 vaccinations.
Sisters Saving the City, Baltimore, MD
Community Organizer: Jun 2017–Aug 2017
- Fostered a sense of community by implementing character-building programs focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for elementary-aged children in the Park Heights area.
- Facilitated S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) projects for elementary-aged children, involving car building and navigating obstacle courses.
- Created a mural at the Sisters Saving the City office in the Park Heights community.
- Engaged in marketing and branding for the S.T.E.A.M. program, including designing brochures and printing T-shirts.
Education:
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN THE WRITING SEMINARS, AUG 2023
Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD
Dean’s List (Fall 2019, Fall 2020, and Spring 2022)
COURSEWORK TOWARD ASSOCIATE’S DEGREE, 2017
Baltimore City Community College | Baltimore, MD
Skills:
Manuscript Editing
Copyediting and Proofreading
Style Guide Adherence
Grammar and Syntax Understanding
Story Development and Structure
Dialogue Editing
Fact-checking and Research
Editorial Feedback and Critique
Community Program Organization
Cultural Awareness
Text Analysis
Additional Information:
RECOGNITIONS
Valedictorian of the Class of 2019
National Society of High School Scholars Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement
University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Award for Academically Talented African American Students
Maryland State Geography Bee Finalist
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
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