Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

Work History

• American Red Cross
• Associate Donor Representative
• November 2009 to Present

• Developing direct sales skills, customer maintenance techniques, and an overall understanding of American Red Cross recruitment. Associates will plan and implement effective strategies to recruit and retain donor groups.

• Talk, Inc.
• Public Relations Intern
• May 2009 to July 2009

• Assisted with event planning, wrote blogs for the company's website, wrote and distributed media alerts and press releases, performed library and office maintenance.

• Southern Illinois Univeristy
• Student Worker
• August 2007 to May 2009

• Provided administrative stupport for a department with over 200 users through personal computing, word processing, copying, filing, billing and tracking inventory.

• American Heart Association
• PR/Event Planning Intern
• December 2008 to May 2009

• Assisted with event planning, volunteer recruitment and management, securing donations, writing and distributing press releases and media alerts, creating a media distribution database.

• Pyramid Public Relations
• Account Associate
• January 2008 to May 2009

• Created comprehensive public realtions and marketing campaigns for clients such as the College of Liberal Arts at Southern Illinois University and the Beautify Southern Illinois campaign. Planned events, wrote and distributed press releases and media alerts, designed advertisements, wrote newsletters and created collateral material such as logos.

Education

• Southern Illinois University Carbondale
• Bachelor's of Science, Speech Communication, Public Relations, Organizational Communication
• 2007 - 2009

• Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Outstanding Senior in Speech Communication

• Rend Lake College
• Associate of Arts, Associate of Science
• 2005 - 2007

• Phi Theta Kappa National Honor Society, Competed on the Forensics team