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About Me

Before college, Andi was briefly the youngest person in the country running a marketing consulting business, creating campaigns and promotional pieces for small businesses from coast to coast.

She has been quoted in over 30 international media outlets - including Yahoo! HotJobs, Sydney Morning Herald, Los Angeles Times, and many others - speaking on topics as diverse as: marketing, Generation Y, theater, environmental issues, and international travel.

Currently, Andi is an honors program student at Park University, double-majoring in Public Relations and Broadcast Journalism, with a minor in Leadership Studies. She is the editor for The Stylus Newspaper, an award-winning publication.

In summer 2010, Andi went to the eastern African country Uganda on a Peace Journalism scholarship. She stayed for a month and taught lessons on ethical reporting to local broadcasters. She also produced her own broadcast stories while she was there, and one of them - a radio piece on the Gulu-area water crisis - has led to independent fundraisers in the United States to build a well in the village she profiled.

In winter 2011, Andi will be traveling in the Middle Eastern country Jordan on grants from America's Unofficial Ambassadors and United Planet, doing research and marketing work to prevent malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS with Friends of the Global Fund.

In high school, Andi was a member of the invitation-only Young Playwrights Roundtable at the Coterie Theatre, recently named one of the top 5 theatres for young people by Time Magazine. Several of her pieces were added to the standard acting seminar curriculum at the Coterie Theatre and local high schools. Additionally, her works were professionally produced at several local venues.

Andi won the Writer Digest Magazine's Young Writer Award as a teenager, and never stopped writing since. She has won many awards for her work in journalism, as well as her leadership skills.

In a recent anonymous peer review, her classmates used these words to describe Andi: Determined. Intelligent. Strong. Entertaining.

She loves community service, nonprofit organizations, strong espresso, post-conflict development journalism, world travel, academia, and stories. Andi hopes someday someone will pay her to travel the world.

Work History

• AndiEnns.com
• Public Relations & Marketing consultat
• March 2007 to Present

• Built and managed consultancy while maintaining full college classload. Create and implement marketing and public relations campaigns for a variety of clients nationwide. Services include writing copy (press releases, email newsletters, etc), social media, event planning, media relations, graphic design, and more.

• Institute of Transformational Studies
• Bookstore Manager & Assistant Publicist
• May 2006 to August 2009

• Managed team of 20+ volunteers from scheduling through training and working, set up and tore down event displays, traveled to other cities to train regional managers, customer service.

• Plaza Wellspring Yoga
• Communications Director
• September 2007 to August 2008

• Created and implemented marketing campaign, media relations, event planning, direct incoming calls, managed office schedule. Studio practitioners saw up to 400% increase in revenue attributed to the campaigns.

Education

• Park University
• Bachelor Of Arts, Public Relations, Broadcast Journalism
• 2009 - 2013

• 3.91 GPA, Dean's List, Presidential Scholars List, Alpha Chi Honor Society, Sigma Alpha Pi Honor Society