Communications Assistant Content Writer

LIZA CLAIRE ASHLEY

**** ***** **., ***. ** Brooklyn, NY 11225

****.*.******@*****.*** 602-***-****

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B.A. Humanities

• GPA: 3.87

• Honors: President’s List, Speech Scholarship, Leadership Award

• Opinion editor for The Empire State Tribune (2020-2021). Philos Project, New York, NY Jun 2020 - Present

Communications Assistant (Remote)

• Wrote email blasts and website copy to solicit donations, promote research material, and update donors on advocacy projects. Managed MailChimp and WordPress. Improved our email open rate by 38 percent in 6 months.

• Used Adobe Creative Suite and Canva to design graphics for email blasts, flyers, and Instagram posts. Created short video content for Instagram and Facebook.

• Managed Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Grew Facebook audience from 20,000 page likes to 33,000 page likes. Grew Twitter by 8,000 followers. Managed Sprout Social

• Created a best practices document and conducted a Zoom training course for our 6 international fellows to professionalize their Twitter presence. Grew their individual audiences by 18 percent on average.

• Managed a Salesforce database of donors, fellows, volunteers, and content analytics.

• Copyedited content from fellows and other staff members to host on the website. Religion Unplugged, New York, NY Aug 2019 - Nov 2020 Editorial and Social Media Associate (Remote)

• Wrote and published breaking news stories on George Floyd and the resultant protests that were re-published in Newsweek and Religion News Service.

• Updated our Squarespace website with new content, fixed technical issues, and managed social media platforms. Gained 5,000 Facebook page likes and 2,200 Twitter followers. Used Later, Sprout Social, CoSchedule, SE Ranking, SEMrush and other platforms to schedule and optimize content .

• Won the Religion News Association’s first-place Chandler Award for excellence in undergraduate and graduate reporting (2020).

• Did preliminary edits on stories from freelancers in India, Palestine, Ethiopia, and Nigeria.

• Finalized for the EPPY Award from Editor and Publisher in the category of “Best News or Event Feature Video” (2020) for my George Floyd video coverage. FTL Moda, New York, NY Jun 2018- July 2019

Assistant

• Wrote captions and scheduled content for Instagram posts. Grew following by 5,000 followers in 6 months.

• Managed schedules for models, photographers, makeup artists, and crew for 4 photoshoots.

• Handled customer interactions at Spring and Fall Coterie, converting European and American sizes and currencies. Communicated with our warehouse to ensure accurate supply. EDUCATION

The King’s College, New York, NY Aug 2017 - May 2021 EXPERIENCE

LIZA CLAIRE ASHLEY

1115 Union St., Apt. 2F Brooklyn, NY 11225

****.*.******@*****.*** 602-***-****

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