Resume

JOURNALISM WORK HISTORY:

AOL/Huffington Post Patch.com, September 2010-present. Start-up editor of Cascade Patch, a rapidly-growing daily community news website in south Atlanta. Third out of 42 sites in Georgia in unique visitors and first in subscribers in mid-2011.

Poe Communications, December 2003-September 2010. Writer and Social Media consultant to the Ford Motor Company, Georgia Attorney Closers and The Blackmon Group. Duties included media relations, news conference planning, release writing, and daily social media promotions on Facebook and Twitter.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 1999-December 2003. CityLife Bureau Chief. Responsible for nine-member staff of reporters, photographers and designers and publishing weekly community tabloid paper. Also worked as national “roving” reporter and senior Sunday business writer.

Chicago Tribune, January 1992-March 1999. Metro education reporter, urban affairs reporter, assignment editor, copy editor.

St. Petersburg Times, April 1990-January 1992. General assignment reporter, Tampa bureau.

Orlando Sentinel, January 1988-April 1990. Night cops and small government news reporter. Summer copy editor.

REAL ESTATE/FINANCE WORK HISTORY:

RE/MAX Greater Atlanta; Atlanta Intown. Licensed Real Estate Agent, 2005-present.

New York Life Insurance Company, Series 6 Registered Rep, May 2009-June2010.

WEB DESIGN/ONLINE EDITING CERTIFICATIONS:

Emory University, Website Analytics I, Dreamweaver I, Web Design Basics, Outlook 2007. Spring 2010-present.

EDUCATION:

Linguistics/French/Economics, 4.0 GPA. Georgia State University, 2008.

M.A. Journalism, 3.55 GPA, University of Georgia, 1987.

B.S. Communication, 3.0 GPA, Florida State University, 1985.

Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Fellow, Fall 1987.

Woodward Academy College Preparatory High School, Cum Laude, 1981.

FOREIGN TRAVEL/LANGUAGE STUDY:

Spanish III and IV, Emory University. Fall-Winter 2011.

Intermediate French II and III, Alliance Francaise, Atlanta. Winter 2009/Spring 2010.

Beginning German, LSI International, Zurich, Switzerland. June 2007.

Low-Intermediate Spanish, Institutos Mangold, Madrid, Spain. October 1991.

JOURNALISM AWARDS:

2002 feature writing award, Atlanta Association of Black Journalists.

2001 business writing award, Atlanta Association of Black Journalists.

1997 Peter Lisagor deadline reporting award, Chicago. Society of Professional Journalists.

1995 writing award, Chicago Association of Black Journalists.

1991 non-deadline reporting award, Central Florida SPJ.

LANGUAGES:

Intermediate Spanish and French. Basic German.