Editor on a variety of nonprofit publications concerning employee benefits, compensation and financial literacy. I am also the leader of several new social media initiatives, and assist in the production of marketing materials, research projects and online education courses.

Editor on dozens of newspaper and magazine sections for Dolan Media's business and legal publications in Minneapolis. For these special focus sections, I managed every aspect of the production process—developing and assigning story ideas, editing drafts, and working with designers to ensure that strong visuals accompany every article. I also regularly met with company executives to propose future areas of news coverage, and counseled members of my writing team to further their professional development goals.

As a member of the politics team with this daily metropolitan newspaper in St. Paul, I covered the 2004 Minnesota legislative session, and later, several presidential visits and political conventions. I also wrote and researched the Pioneer Press' innovative "Facts Unfiltered" series, which provided voters with unbiased facts on disputed political issues such as rising health care costs and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I then moved to the local news team, where I covered schools and government across a large suburban area.

Contributed front-of-the-book articles and other entertainment-related pieces for this monthly lifestyle magazine, which is read by more than 500,000 people in the Twin Cities.

Consulted students in the College of Liberal Arts on the structure, clarity and style of their writing. Along with essays, I reviewed personal statements, cover letters, and other types of school and business correspondence.

During this four-week program at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, I studied international politics under the guidance of U.N. ambassadors and program directors. I gained an appreciation for the role and impact of international organizations, and expanded my perspective on the causes and consequences of world conflicts.