• Assists in the planning and executing of fundraising events and activities, including creating invitations and sponsorship proposals, assisting with event participants’ needs (registration, questions, information distribution), logistics, and coordination of volunteer tasks, helping with event marketing and promotional efforts, and securing donations and sponsorships• Assists in the development and implementation of initiatives for the acquisition of new donors• Generate mailings and other correspondence with sponsors and donors• Maintains the donor database, processes donations, creates gift acknowledgement letters in a timely manner, and generate donor reports• Helps with the organization’s social media efforts, website content management, newsletters, eblasts, and e-appeals• Creates appealing social media content to increase visibility and fundraising appeal• Creates digital and written marketing material for programs and fundraising• Attends and represents Humane Society of North Central Florida at offsite community events• Generates reports on status of donors, sponsors, and media outreach efforts• Serves as an active member of the Humane Society of North Central Florida team, learns about programs, services, client relations and is willing to help when needed

• Manage organization’s Wix website to ensure all members stay informed and have access to easy-to-read current information• Create and send out monthly newsletter using Constant Contact to share member updates, upcoming events, and other important organization-related information• Create question surveys and RSVP forms using QuestionPro for monthly meetings• Participate in fundraising committee to plan fundraising events and contact local businesses to obtain donations to raise money for annual scholarship program• Design posters and flyers using Adobe Photoshop to promote annual scholarship with local high school students• Speak at award ceremonies as a student representative to encourage students to join the organization

• Assisted the Dean’s office communications team with various public relations campaigns to increase awareness of the college among students, community members and potential donors• Acted as main contact for the Agriculture National Graduate Institutional Name Exchange (AG-NGINE), a graduate student recruitment program, inviting and enrolling fellow land-grant universities across the United States to the program• Worked alongside Assistant Director of Communications to complete various clerical duties, proofread written materials and assisted students who visited the Dean’s office• Helped videography team collect content to highlight the “Gator Experience” through student-focused stories• Created CALS Weekly emails containing events, job opportunities, internships and shared them with undergraduate and graduate CALS students

• Supported the communications team in the planning and execution of gathering impactful imagery of our work in the community and client stories• Traveled to different sites to gather content across Sarasota and DeSoto counties• Adopted and applied brand consistency and photo style to all content• Provided imagery to support social media and marketing collateral efforts• Actively looked for creative ways to show the work we do through photography and/or videography

• Created Facebook and Instagram posts about upcoming College of Journalism and Communications related event using Canva and Hootsuite• Ensured excellent customer service by greeting, signing in, and directing students to the various departments as the front desk receptionist• Provided college-related information and resources to students• Performed various clerical duties such as organizing files and scanning files

• Organized, uploaded and meta tagged photographs and videos to online County-wide search platform using CleanPix to provide employees and community members access to a free Sarasota County content search platform• Worked alongside professional photographer and videographer to document Sarasota County events• Photographed interns and events to add to County-wide photography archive• Coordinated with interns using Microsoft Outlook to plan photoshoot days• Assisted in video script editing and video planning for HR department• Appeared on SRQCountyCast podcast as a guest speaker to share my internship experience with listeners• Gained career knowledge in skills at weekly intern career development classes• Participated in community service days

•Scanned, filed, and organized financial aid documents•Ensured excellent customer service by greeting, signing in, and directing students to the various departments as the front desk receptionist•Provided college related information and resources to students

• Assisted students with tools and equipment in the studio• Cleaned and organized tools, equipment, and classroom• Made clay and glaze mixes using various chemical mixes and machinery• Assisted teacher with taking artwork out of the kiln

Book: Soldier, Sister, Savant• Created contact lists of publishing and news companies to send the book press release to using Microsoft Word• Communicated with publishing and news companies (e.g. New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press) via email and phone• Learned, practiced, and applied communications skills