experience
BUFFALO’S ITALIAN CULTURAL CENTER | BUFFALO, NEW YORK
Title: Marketing and Public Relations Specialist
Date: January 2021-Current
Buffalo’s Italian Cultural Center, or Centro Culturale Italiano di Buffalo is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 2010. In early 2021, I joined the organization’s first operations team as a part-time marketing and public relations specialist.
Skills Practiced: Audience Analysis, Strategic planning and goal setting, social media management, website maintenance, fundraising, graphic design, public relation efforts, print, radio and promoted digital advertisement, newsletter development.
Women in Science and Engineering | Syracuse, New York
Title: Public Relations and Graphic Design Intern
Date: January 2020 - May 2020
Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) is a mission-focused program at Syracuse University. WiSE supports the recruitment, persistence and advancement of women in STEM academia and careers. As a public relations intern, I have the opportunity to create a sixteen-page booklet emphasizing the 20-year history of WiSE at Syracuse University.
Skills Practiced: Research, Graphic Design on InDesign and PhotoShop, Written Communication, Event Planning, Interview and Focus Groups, etc.
View the booklet online here:
Bonél Public Relations | Sydney, Australia
Title: Public Relations Intern and Showroom Assistant
Date: June 2018 - August 2018
Bonél PR is a fashion and brand strategy agency in Sydney, Australia. As a showroom assistant, I managed the clients products in Bonél’s creative space and monitored social media and publication activity. Bonél worked with several international and Australian designers like Lacoste, Sandro Paris and Helen Kaminski.
Skills Practiced: Social Media, Promoted Content, Media Lists, Publication Scans, Event Planning, Data Analytics, Creative Design, Organization, Group Reliance and Love for Adventure!
Check out Bonél’s Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/bonelpr/?hl=en
GirlSpring Online Community| Birmingham, Alabama
Title: Content Creation Intern
Date: September 2017 - December 2017
GirlSpring is an online community focusing on female empowerment. As a content creator, I posted blogs targeted towards a teenage female audience. Some topics I wrote about were body positivity, equality, injustice, sexual harassment and more. My internship at GirlSpring marks the beginning of my passion for gender equality and utilizing my platform as a communications professional to raise awareness.
Skills Practiced: AP Style Writing, Audience Driven Content, Journalism Practices, Newsworthy Stories, Professionalism and Interpersonal Communication.
