activism, musician, service industry
Resume:
INDIANAPOLIS, IN
adu7xa@r.postjobfree.com
MONIQUE RUST
SKILLS
advocacy. activism. creating & curating content for social media (FB, twitter, instagram, tiktok utilizing canva, adobe creative cloud, lumi, inshot, etc.). grass-roots organizing. writing (content, prose, creative, journalism). design consulting & producing. digital imaging. styling (interior & fashion). website consulting & designing. event-planning. fundraising. video/photo producing & creative overseeing. musician. singer/songwriter. author. actress. spokesperson. model.human(e) being
EXPERIENCE
Our Revolution — paid fellowship
february 2020 - july 2020
● coordinated for bernie sanders 2020 presidential campaign.
● worked with team to nationally & locally “grass-roots-to-rise” for progressive agendas.
● hosted awareness-raising events, community gatherings, social media work...was recruited and signed on within weeks of COVID pandemic’s surge.
helped the organization (which held a central focus on being “offline and in-person”) transition from opposition to acceptance, to ultimately embracing & harnessing the connective power & essential value social media can uniquely provide.
boots(& roots)-on-the-ground human rights activist june 2015 - present
● founded Respectful Resistance (indianapolis, IN), june 2015.
● organized, facilitated and spoke/performed for rallies, protests, marches, fundraisers, etc.
● opened the first, official women’s march with original song “rise up, together” (link).
● hosted official “bans off our bodies” rally at the indiana statehouse, july 25th, 2022; managed press prior to.
● advocate with national safe parents coalition, fighting against domestic violence, child abuse & the family court system which enables it, since march, 2021.
● hosted screening of film, “equal means equal,” organized with director kamala lopez in tandem with ERA coalition, march, 2022.
● women’s march delegate leader & digital defender.
● planned parenthood alliance member.
● ACLU abortion activist.
writing, freelance consulting, & content creation
january 2010 - present
● content writing for companies like common ground food co-op and california agriculture.
● creative business consulting for brands and individually owned businesses.
● social media design curation, logo and other imaging.
● website structuring, & writing (marketing & vision conceptualization).
● worked to initiate the indianapolis music cooperative.
● author, various. “this girl, thus far,” poetizer publishing, 2022.
● musical performance, guitarist, singer/songwriter, with 60+ original songs, since 2010.
various dining and bar service
1999 - 2006
● Kona jack’s
● Arni’s
● Pucinnis
● Honey House
● Starbucks
● Bravo
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