PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR,
NEW LITERARY PROJECT
November 2022 - Present
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Work with the Executive Director and Board Chair to create and run arts education and arts funding programs for writers in the Bay Area and the greater United States
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Develop external communications strategy and execute design, publication, and editorial changes to all public-facing documents and web formats
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Organize meetings, check-ins, and job duties of a team of interns
POETRY READER,
THE ADROIT JOURNAL
August 2022 - Present
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Serve as a slush pile reader for all poetry genre submissions on the Submittable platform, selecting individual poems for quarterly
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Judge pieces with an editorial team, checking for poetic style, tone, format, maturity, and clarity
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Organize local Adroit events, attend issue release readings, and participate in staff workshops for the Adroit team
TEACHING ARTIST & PROGRAM COORDINATOR
CHAPTER 510
August 2019 - October 2022
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Develop curriculum to create engaging, generative workshops to allow middle and high school students to create individual poems and collective fictional narratives during class
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Foster a supportive environment through which students feel comfortable to be vulnerable in their writing and share their work with their peers
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Participate in cultural sensitivity and pedagogical development trainings led by Studio Pathways
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INTERN,
BAY AREA BOOK FESTIVAL
February 2019 - August 2020
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Collaborated with the Community Liaison, Marketing Director, and Program Manager to help design and implement outreach strategies to bolster engagement and attendance
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Managed and promoted the annual Young Author’s Writing Contest (YAWC), a writing contest open to all high school students in the Bay Area
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Judged and edited the submissions to the Young Author’s Writing Contest and the Graton Writing Project to compile students’ stories into a comprehensive anthology
SUBSIDIARY RIGHTS ASSISTANT,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
August 2018 - August 2019
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Worked in the Rights & Permissions Department to protect authors’ rights by engaging in various tasks (watermarking and protecting proof copies, directing translation queries, entering copyright information into databases, packaging and sending complimentary copies, etc.) that honor contracts
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Maintained correspondence with various international subagents and communicated between various companies seeking translation rights
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Assisted Rights & Permissions Department with daily clerical and administrative work including filing papers, making copies, and responding to emails
EDUCATION
MASTER OF FINE ARTS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
July 2021 - July 2023
Low Residency MFA, with an emphasis on poetry
GPA: 4.0
BACHELOR OF ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
August 2018 - May 2021
Undergraduate program, majoring in English Language & Literature, minoring in Creative Writing
GPA: 3.94