Content Strategist – The Washington Post | New York, NY | November 2019 – Present
- Ideation of branded content strategies for global companies at WP BrandStudio.
Volunteer Podcast Host – Rare Genomics Institute |USA | January 2016 – Present
- Volunteer position with a health research nonprofit
- Organizing, hosting, recording, and editing regular podcasts focusing on rare diseases
- Content planning and strategy with internal team and external partners
- Researching, writing, editing, and publishing original content
- Conducting interviews
- Producing, shooting, and editing videos
- Writing, recording, co-hosting, and editing a monthly podcast
- Social media management and planning
- Analytics and SEO
- Keeping up to date with latest education and technology trends
Content Manager – Course Report | Brooklyn, NY | January 2016 – November 2019
Course Report is a resource for students researching coding bootcamps around the world.
My role as Content Manager included:
Video Producer/Founding Member – THRIVE NYC | New York, NY | November 2014 – May 2015
- I helped found and shape this start-up through brainstorming, market research and idea generation
- Conceived, scripted, researched, shot and produced mini documentaries about NYC leisure activities
- Booked, organized and interviewed talent
- Topics included museums, markets, theater, dance parties, musicians, fashion, and outdoor leisure
Freelance Journalist/Writer/Video Producer | July 2013 – December 2015
- Writing articles, blog posts, web content, marketing copy, and press releases
- Scripting, producing, shooting, and editing videos – including live events and interviews
- Clients: a women’s nonprofit, an education startup, a design company, and a video software company.
- Topics: entertainment, education, business, travel, and technology
Online Reporter and Editor – 3 News/Mediaworks NZ | Auckland, NZ | February 2012 – July 2013
- Conceived, wrote, produced, edited and uploaded written and video stories for the website of a top New Zealand news broadcaster
- Wrote breaking/developing news to the tightest deadlines in a high-energy newsroom
- From-the-field reporting, photographing, shooting, interviewing and story filing
- Managed and monitored social media pages
- Liaised/coordinated with the TV news department
- Worked late night and early morning shifts in sole-charge of the website
- Beats: breaking news, entertainment, arts, science, tech, health, crime, politics
Reporter – Herald on Sunday | Auckland, NZ | September 2011 – February 2012
- Wrote news and feature articles for a national New Zealand Sunday newspaper
- Reporting in the field, event coverage; face-to-face and phone interviews
- Beats: police stories, court cases, business, celebrity news, health, politics, the 2011 New Zealand elections, and the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
Reporter – The Daily Post and Weekender | Rotorua, NZ | November 2010 – September 2011
- Covered news and feature stories in all beats for this daily regional newspaper
- Regular front-page stories
- Reporting in the field, street polls, event coverage, interviews
- Sole editor of a weekly insert, which I re-launched in a new format
- Beats: education, fashion, entertainment, politics, health, culture
EDUCATION
Post Graduate Diploma in Communications (Journalism), Auckland University of Technology, NZ 2010
Awarded a full scholarship for this course which covered print, online, television and radio journalism.
Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Philosophy and French, University of Auckland, NZ 2005 – 2008
4-year degree with double major in Philosophy and French. Honors dissertation on medical ethics.
Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland 2001 – 2004
Dubai College, United Arab Emirates 1998 – 2000
PERFORMANCE TRAINING
– 2020 Comedy Cellar Standup Comedy Class, New York, NY
– 2016 UCB Sketch Writing Level 1, New York, NY
– 2015 The PIT Improv Level 1, New York, NY
– 2011 The Presenter’s Platform with Paulus Romijn, Auckland, NZ
– 2008 Studio 111 – Screen Acting Level 1 (Sally Spencer-Harris), Auckland, NZ
– 2004 Trinity College London Grade 8 Speech and Drama
ACTING AND PERFORMANCE
Lead actor/writer/producer – Sweet Dreams, 2013 New Zealand 48 Hours Film Festival
Lead actor/writer/director/editor/producer – The L Word, 2012 NZ 48 Hours Film Festival
Actor/writer – Bullywood, 2011 NZ 48 Hours Film Festival
Actor/producer – The Missionary, 2010 NZ 48 Hours Film Festival
Lead actor – Roberto Zucco, 2006 University of Auckland
Lead role – The Taming of the Shrew, 2004 Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival