Résumé

Education
BA, Brigham Young University (December 2019)

Relevant Courses

Genre and Substantive Editing: focused on freelance editing and substantive editing for all genres.
Basic Editing Skills: focused on copyediting using The Chicago Manual of Style.
Introduction to Print Publishing: trained in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
Writing for children and adolescents: wrote a middle-grade novel.

In-class Projects

Copyedited a 10-page style guide and 2 empirical papers and substantively edited 6 peer papers.
Contributed 13 entries to a 10-page style guide. Of those entries, 10 of them addressed issues of global English. Coordinated efforts between 2 other editors.
Compiled, designed, and typeset a 27-page family history.

Work Experience
Editor, Freelance Services (January 2018–Present)

Editor, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (January 2020–April 2020)

Edited 3 manuals and 20+ small projects.
Proofread 2 manuals and 20+ small projects.
Lead 3 projects, worked with clients, estimated costs and deadlines, and assigned tasks to other editors.
Addressed editing queries and suggestions from readers.
Updated 1 index.

Managing Editor/Designer, Latter-day Saint Insights/Editing Research (September 2019–December 2019)

Managed a team of 16 editors, running meetings and making major decisions in procedures and style.
Edited and approved 50+ articles before sending them to the Editor in Chief.
Oversaw the rebranding of Latter-day Saint Insights and the beginning of a new publication (Editing Research), outlining procedures and the new style guide.
Designed the new Latter-day Saint Insights logo and 30+ images for articles and social media.
Wrote 4 articles for Latter-day Saint Insights and 1 article for Editing Research.

Editorial Assistant, BYU Studies Quarterly (April 2018–January 2020)

Edited 10+ book chapters and 40+ articles.
Researched and checked the sources for 20+ documents and formatted all footnotes.
Wrote 3 book notices that were published in the quarterly journal.
Transcribed 10+ pages of old documents and edited 70+ pages of transcribed material using the procedures and style guide of the Joseph Smith Papers.

Publicist/Head Publicist, Future House Publishing (September 2016–July 2017)

Wrote a press release that was picked up and published by Publishers Weekly.
Edited and managed 2 websites, one of which needed to be redesigned, so I taught myself how to use WordPress and a little bit of HTML in order to reformat the website and edit the content.
Managed 4 company email lists and 3 social media platforms, wrote content for emails and social media posts weekly, and increased the amount of email subscribers by 5,000+ people.
Communicated with 100+ authors for 3 cross-promotions that I organized monthly, publicizing the company’s products to an audience of over 200,000 people with minimal costs to the company.
Initiated 4 major projects that caught the attention of large audiences at little to no cost, gave the company legitimacy among larger publishers, and improved company procedures.

Other Experience
Club Secretary/Club President, STET: The Editors’ Network (August 2018–December 2019)

Organized and advertised for 7 events to help editing students at BYU network and prepare for their careers.
Designed the club’s logo and 5+ flyers and handouts for activities.
Ran meetings, improved club procedures, increased membership by over 75%, and expanded the club’s involvement with the editing program.

Tutor, BYU Tutoring (August 2018–May 2019)

Test Scribe and Note Taker, University Accessibility Center (September 2017–May 2019)

Awarded as one of the top 2 volunteers in 2017 after just 1 semester of volunteer work.
Volunteered 18 hours in 1 semester for 4 clients with different disabilities.

Full-time Volunteer, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (February 2015–August 2016)

Taught 100+ people individually and in group settings.
Worked 12 hours a day and 75 hours a week.
Conversed with 1,000s of people monthly and knocked on 2,000+ doors.
Trained myself in American Sign Language and found interpreters to accommodate a deaf family.

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