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| work experience |

GUBA, San Francisco, CA
Community Advocate/Content Editor, September 2006 - Present
- Create and update the company's official blog, which features must-see videos and snarky comments re: pop culture and current events.
- Write, edit and help produce promotional videos for the company, including a high-quality trailer.
- Serve as GUBA's main community liaison, representing the company at tech-related events and interacting with users online.
- Scour the site for user-generated and premium videos to feature on the homepage each day.
- Complete guerilla-marketing campaigns.

DiversityInc, Newark, N.J.

Senior Journalist, November 2005 - August 2006
- Working remotely from the San Francisco Bay Area, act as main editorial contact for businesses and organizations based in the region.
- Write feature stories for the monthly print magazine (circulation: 150,000). Feature topics have included religion in the workplace, diversity management, education and immigration.
- As lead writer for healthcare issue, draft story proposals about disparities for feature well and regular departments, compile source list for reporters and write features.
- Write magazine leadership profiles and People & Places, a back-of-the-book section spotlighting people of color, people with disabilities, GLBTs and women in the upper echelon of corporate America.
- Cover breaking diversity-related news for the Web site, which has more than 350,000 registered users.

Journalist, June 2004 - October 2005
- Head writer of DiversityInc.com's daily Color Commentary, an analysis of the day's diversity-related news, with DiversityInc's spin.
- Write breaking-news stories for the Web site and features for the site's newsletter, published six times a week.
- Write People & Places and Scorecard, a regular magazine feature critiquing the Web sites of major corporations and nonprofit organizations in terms of diversity content.

Intern reporter, April 2000 - June 2001
- Write an average of two breaking-news stories each day.
- Brainstorm, research and write long-term Web stories about how diversity affects the bottom line, focusing on beats: Latinos, GLBTs, entertainment and education.
-Work with sales team and corporate sponsors to develop story ideas about sponsors' diversity efforts and write an average of one sponsor story each month.

Freelance writer, September 2001 - Present
- Stories have appeared in AsianDiversity.com, the Christian Science Monitor, Men's Health, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, siliconindia magazine and USA Weekend.
- Contributing editor of Hatch Magazine, writing an average of two stories a month and editing all stories.

San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco, CA
Online editorial intern, March 2003 - July 2003
- Write local news stories for print and online editions.
- Help IT team post the paper's content each week.
- Design new pages and sections. Create graphics and place photos online.
- Manage online Life During Wartime section.

California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
Lab data/IT assistant, August 2002 - June 2003
- Manage and analyze lab data for patients in the heart and liver programs in the transplant department.
- Maintain OTTR program, which stores all patient information, and a fax server.
- Write and edit OTTR documentation.

The Daily Targum, New Brunswick, N.J.

Online editor, February 2000 - September 2000
- Reformat and upload the paper's articles, photos and comic strips each night.
- Work with the business staff to create a budget.
- Train and manage a group of desk assistants.

Campus editor, February 1999 - February 2000
- Write an average of three front-page stories each week, focusing on university issues, in addition to one series and one column each semester.
- Manage a staff of campus correspondents who file two stories each week.
- Edit every story in the news section.
- Maintain a special section on health and science.
- Design inside news pages and special sections.
- Work with managing editor and news editor to create teasers, captions and headlines for inside pages and front page.

 

| education |

Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J.
Bachelor's degree, with honors, in journalism and mass media (Spanish minor), 2004

 

| skills |

Working knowledge of QuarkXPress, Word, Excel, Fetch, Adobe GoLive, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and HTML. Proficient in Macintosh and Windows environments. Near fluency in Spanish.

 

| honors |

Third place, news writing for four-year colleges, New Jersey Press Association, 2000. First Place, college newspaper Web site, New Jersey Press Association, 2000.
Golden Key National Honor Society.
Dean's List.

 

| references |

Available upon request.