Professional Experience

Skills

• 8 years marketing and customer service experience

• Project management

• Interpersonal communication and management

• Event management and community outreach

• Digital tools: Microsoft platforms, Canva, social media, Zoom, website developers (WordPress, Wix, Weebly), Slack

• Organization and time management

• Copywriting and editing expertise

Experience

Bookseller & Bartender, Book + Bottle: St. Petersburg, FL

June 2025–Present

• Services customers in store and over phone. Provides personalized book and wine recommendations to patrons.

• Assists in marketing content creation and execution. Assists in executing Rotating Genre and Museum of Fine Arts Book Clubs.

• Rebuilds processes, including preorder systems and book special orders. Rebuilt special order process resulted in 400% growth of special order sales within initial month of implementation.

Events & Community Relations Manager, The Lynx: Gainesville, FL

February 2024–May 2025

• Curated, built, and managed all marketing materials and branding strategies. Established and maintained writing of weekly newsletter reaching 10K subscribers. Built Instagram audience from approx. 300 followers to 10.5k followers within initial year.

• Created initial store branding and systems for events and marketing. Trained staff on systems and managed staff responsibilities.

• Organized, scheduled, and managed all events programming averaging 5-7 events per week, reaching over 7,500 attendees within initial year of business. Managed 5 to 10 significant projects at a given time including KPI and ROI tracking systems.

• Developed and executed a free annual month-long community literary festival, Gainesville Reads. Established sponsorships, collaborations, and relationships with over 12 organizations. Sold approx. 500 copies of festival’s selected central book.

• Resided as Secretary for The Lynx Watch, Inc. banned books distribution nonprofit.

Bookseller, Midtown Reader: Tallahassee, FL

May 2022–January 2024

• Managed four book clubs quarterly in coordination with book club leaders, Marketing Director, and Inventory Manager.

• Managed personalized signings with Tallahassee authors to organize, fulfill and ship an average of 50 orders per month. 

Graduate Assistant, Florida State University: Tallahassee, FL

July 2020–December 2022

• Worked as writing center tutor in one-on-one settings at an average of 10 clients per week, developing writing skills and digital tools such as Wix, Canva, video editing softwares, and photo editing softwares.

• Instructor of Record for two courses per semester, Rhetoric & Composition ENC 1101 and 2135 for 40 students.

Social Media Coordinator, St. Petersburg Group: St. Petersburg, FL

August 2018–June 2020

• Managed four social media pages for local business-centered news and advertising.

• Created graphics, wrote website articles, and captured photo and video content for social media posts.

Education

Master of Arts, Florida State University

Spring 2022

English Literature, Media, and Culture

Master’s Thesis: “All the ways you wish you could be, that’s me”: White Masculinity under Capitalism, Trauma, and Debility in Fight Club (1996 and 1999)

Bachelor of Arts, University of South Florida – St. Petersburg

Winter 2019

English Literature and Culture, Summa Cum Laude

Honors Thesis: “But in a story, I can steal [its] soul”: Vietnam War Veterans and the Literature of Catharsis