Resume

Content Strategist – The Washington Post | New York, NY | November 2019 – Present

  • Ideation of branded content strategies for global companies at WP BrandStudio.

Volunteer Podcast HostRare 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 ManagerCourse 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:

    • 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

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/producerSweet Dreams, 2013 New Zealand 48 Hours Film Festival
Lead actor/writer/director/editor/producerThe L Word, 2012 NZ 48 Hours Film Festival
Actor/writerBullywood, 2011 NZ 48 Hours Film Festival
Actor/producerThe Missionary, 2010 NZ 48 Hours Film Festival
Lead actor Roberto Zucco, 2006 University of Auckland
Lead roleThe Taming of the Shrew, 2004 Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival