Communications

Community Projects

Collaborated with the head of Marketing for the Shenandoah National Park Trust to pitch and execute a "Local Day of Giving" campaign for Harrisonburg's Great Community Give.
Devised email copy to trust subscribers, promoting the Great Community Give.
Supported fundraising for the Trust's 'Ticket To Ride' program, providing transportation to the park for Title One Schools.

Collaborated with the nonprofit New Directions through and Organizationanl Communications class, and a photography class on a cross-disciplinary project that transformed domestic abuse survivors’ stories into meaningful visual artwork
Supported the ethical collection and sharing of survivor narratives, culminating in a fundraising art auction with all proceeds benefiting New Directions and its mission to serve survivors
Created two transcripts and a filing system to manage all five transcripts and their respective summaries, providing restricted access to protect the interviewee's privacy

Media Coverage

Professional Social Media Calendar
Sample of one week of social media copywriting for Studio Theatre.

Sponsored Article - Washingtonian
Sponsored article written on behalf of Studio Theatre to promote the theatre's immersive production, Paradise Blue.

How to Behave When Your Friends Die: Attitudes and Beliefs towards Grief
in the Individual, and how it compares to those of Society

Undergraduate communication research, focusing on the question, "How does the threat of violating societal grieving expectations effect one’s healing process?"

JMU College of Arts and Letters; Undergraduate Research Conference

Presenting the "Terror Management Research Labs; a Quantitative Investigation of Relational Cognitive Distortions Among the Suicidal with Traditional Terror Management Measures"
The research put quantitative reasoning behind the age-old saying "check in on your friends" by measuring Relational Cognitive Distortions of people with suicidal ideation