Editor, Writer, Executive Director, Executive Assistant, Program Direc

Christian A. Herold, m.a.

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Summary

Wrote and edited analytic text across multiple fields: finance (RFPs including financial analyses, city finance news); the sciences (education, biology, medicine, arboreal science); architecture & urban planning; and academia (humanities, political science). Directed non-profit finance committee, 20-capital plan committee, and capital finance planning committee.

RECENT WORK HISTORY (breakouts below)

Alice Freelance Services, Cambridge, MA and Internet 2020–present

Editor; writer; career, public speaking, and advocacy consultant (http://www.alicefreelance.com)

Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce

Census Taker/Follow-Up Enumerator, Massachusetts; Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona 2020

People’s Sculpture Racing (PSR), Cambridge Massachusetts 2014–present

Director, arts and STEAM education organization

Northampton Center for the Arts (NCFA), Northampton, Massachusetts 2018–2019

Managing Director, arts and education center

SpiralZoom (SZ), Baltimore (worked remotely) 2017

Manager & Editor, science education books and games startup

Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), Cambridge, Massachusetts 2012–2017

Executive Assistant to Senior Director, Chief of Department, & Chief Academic Officer; Manager

NeighborMedia/Cambridge Community TV (CCTV), Cambridge, Massachusetts 2011–2014

Web & Cable Journalist, citizen journalism program of local cable access organization

Munroe Center for the Arts (MCA), Lexington, Massachusetts 2007–2010

Executive Director, community arts center

BREAKOUT: EDITING

Alice Freelance Services, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Internet 2020–present

Editor; writer; career, public speaking, and advocacy consultant

Political science journal article, substantial content editing – worked with author to

Revamp article to reflect current discourse and references, and deploy a relevant argument

Career counseling, resumes, cover letters, personal statements – 25% interview rate

Arboreal advocacy project. Research, strategizing with arborist to promote his campaign

SpiralZoom, Baltimore, Maryland 2017

Editor & Manager, children’s science books and toys for startup, via Google Docs & phone

Edited, advised on science education content; researched, developed, & edited intellectual

property contracts, NDAs

Women & Performance Project, Inc., peer-reviewed academic journal on

diversity and the arts published by Routledge U.K, New York City 1997–2007

President. Collaborated with board in attaining 501(c)(3) and peer-review status

New Issue Development Chair. Led board in issue policy & long-range planning

Editorial Board Member. Made editorial decisions, copy-edited articles

Editor, content editing copy editing, and author communications

CBT Architects, Boston, Massachusetts post-college

Editor and Writer

Wrote twice-monthly newsletter about architectural and urban planning projects

Wrote grant for public housing project

BREAKOUT: WRITING AND FINANCE EXPERIENCE

NON-PROFIT

People’s Sculpture Racing, Cambridge Massachusetts 2015–2021

Created branding & graphics; built & synched Internet channels; currently write

proposals, correspondence, grants, and manage and write website content

Wrote and assembled detailed 20-page proposal for the deployment of sculpture racing

in the service of the “2016 Massachusetts Science and Technology Curriculum Framework”

Built and managed budget including several overlapping grants

Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, Massachusetts 2018–2019

Built, managed, and reported to board on budget

Wrote website content, facilities marketing copy, contracts, annual appeal letter, grant

Munroe Center for the Arts, Lexington, Massachusetts 2007–2010

Led strategic marketing and advocacy efforts; developed new branding; wrote reports

for board, policy statements, website material, business plan, news releases, brochures

Rebuilt and managed budget, including capital repair budget

Directed finance team, 20-year capital plan team, and capital finance team

JOURNALISM

Cambridge Community TV/NeighborMedia, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2011–2014

Citizen Journalist. Wrote local news & feature articles; shot and edited video for cable

broadcast; produced interview series; produced advocacy video

Lexington Minuteman, Self, Boston Globe, Ladies Home Journal 1990–2010

Freelance Journalist

Harte-Hanks: Middlesex News, Dedham Daily Transcript, Waltham & Dedham 1987–1989

Staff Reporter. Town Hall, Finance Committee, School Board; used “Chicago Manual”

Cub Reporter. Features and police beat

ACADEMIC JOURNALS & PAPERS

“Ferdinand de Saussure,” Dictionary of Literary Biography: French Theorists 2001

“The Other Side of Echo: The Adventures of a Dyke-Mestiza-Chicana-Marimacha

Ranchera Singer in (Robert) Ashleyland” in Women and Performance #18, spring 1998

Delivered papers & led panels on arts, politics, media and advocacy in Austin, 1992–2012

Chicago, Atlanta, New York City, Cambridge, Toronto, Aberystwyth (Wales)

PROPOSALS & RFPs

“Improvising Life - A STEAM Concept Paper,” Arlington, MA, November 2021

Proof of concept section, sponsorship proposal for startup Improvising Life

“Towards Clarifying Goal and Design Challenges,” Improvising Life, Arlington, MA, 2021

Researched and wrote analysis of startup’s project in PowerPoint

“Proposal for Virtual Sculpture Race,” Cambridge Arts Council 2020

“21st Century STEAM Curriculum: Sculpture Racing,” Cambridge & Somerville 2018

Organized multiple collaborators including TEC consultants and Cambridge

Rindge School, etc.; wrote curriculum in support of Biogen Star Initiative Grant.

Led team of STEM educators from Harvard and MIT. Wrote full budget & grant

“STEAM Unit Planning Proposal,” Cambridge Public Schools 2015

“HUBWeek-Union Point Sculpture Race Proposal,” Hubweek, Boston 2018

“Strategic Thoughts for Springfield’s New Cultural District,” Springfield 2014

“Proposal for Purchasing Munroe Center for the Arts from the City of Lexington” 2009

Led finance committees; contributed analytic tables, and some written sections

GRANTS WRITTEN & OBTAINED

Assistant. Helped restructure major grants for new university-wide software application 2019

UMass Innovation Institute via Robert Half

Massachusetts Cultural Council, Festivals Grant, Arts Access Grant, 3 Local Council grants 2009–2018

New England Foundation for the Arts 2016

Cambridge Expanded Learning STEAM Network 2016

Edward L. Bernays Foundation 2015

National Endowment for the Humanities post-college

FICTION & PLAYWRITING

“The Accursed Poet” (working title), novel in progress current

“Multiple Play” verse drama, produced at the Thirteenth Street Repertory, NYC

“Radio (kKkKk) Descartes,” play published in TDR/MIT Press and produced by

London Musician’s Radio

EDUCATION

New York University, Department of Performance Studies, M.A., A.B.D.

“Echo Homo,” dissertation on the inner voice in music & theater, proposal approved

Master’s Thesis: “Screaming & Diamanda Galás’s Plague Mass”

Distinction, Ph.D. comprehensive exams

French language exam passed

Wesleyan University, College of Letters, Middletown, Connecticut; B.A.

Thesis on Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew

Honors on comprehensive exams

Semester in Germany; classes auf Deutsch

Social Media Training

Social media for advocacy & marketing classes Cambridge Community TV

New media for advocacy workshops, Be the Media/Third Sector New England

Google Analytics, social media marketing workshops, Blog Better Boston

OTHER

Skills

Chicago Manual of Style

Day trading (not current), researched and stocks

Administrative: PC & Mac, Microsoft Office, Quickbooks, Google Suite, Outlook

Multimedia: DSLR video, photography & audio; Final Cut X, Photoshop, Logic Pro

Social Media/Internet: Wordpress, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Google Analytics

Educational Travel & Languages

Languages: English (GRE 750, Millers 98); semester in Germany & minor in German; passed French language exam

Travel: Europe, former Eastern Europe, Middle East, Asia, Central America, Navaho Land, 47 U.S. states

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