I'm an award-winning, experienced freelance journalist, editor and corporate communications and marketing manager. I am currently available for temporary work, contract work, part-time work and for collaborating with partners on projects. Content management online and print is a passion of mine. I have served the State of Oklahoma as a public relations specialist, officer and manager for three sta
te agencies. I worked for five years in internal communications for OGE Energy Corp. and several years for Oklahoma City Public Schools and in strategic communications and development for Teach for America-OKC. I've also worked as a reporter for three major Oklahoma newspapers and as a writer/editor for an overseas newspaper in the West Indies. My work has garnered 80 awards in journalism and for print and online publications. Additional honors include media relations, event planning, marketing and presentation creation. I've managed employees, my own PR firm, projects and all aspects of corporate communications and corporate giving for Seagate Technology in Oklahoma and Mexico. I served as a corporate communications specialist IV for The Boeing Company in Renton, Washington in Global Corporate Citizenship and International Sales and Marketing Communications and as a technical writer in Oklahoma City, earning a five-year service award. Throughout most of my career, I've done everything from managing nonprofit and corporate-giving events, writing speeches for top brass and served as president of the Society of Professional Journalists of Oklahoma and the OKC Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. I am also skilled in strategic planning and creating and maintaining content for websites, videos, ads and social media sites.