I’m so committed to my titles that I’d wear a cowboy hat — in public — for them!

BASIC INFORMATION

Born and raised in the middle of Michigan, I came to San Diego for school in 2015 but stayed in Southern California for the incredible opportunities in the entertainment industry (and warmer weather, of course).

I work as a Social Media Manager at Paramount+. Before that, I was a Social Media Manager at FOX Entertainment — and before that, I was as a Social Media Manager at NBC 7 San Diego, a station I’ve worked with for more than three years. (Do you notice a pattern?)

I attended the University of California, San Diego, where I graduated with a double major in Communication and Visual Arts (Media) in 2018.

I watch everything. Though, my favorite genre of shows are limited series (Political Animals, Fargo, and The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story) and all-things-CW (Dynasty, Supergirl, and Riverdale). However, digital content like structured YouTube videos are something I’ve always been drawn to and hope to create (Ten Minute Power Hour, Crash Course, This Might Get).

My dream is to create digestible, social content for the shows that I love — from ideation to editing to posting. My main background lies within writing and editing.

Writing will also have a special place in my heart: I have written many news articles, first chapters, video storyboards, a 90-minute so-called comedy play, and a full-length young adult romance book. And in my prime, I created a YouTube channel, logging over 100 videos and countless hours of editing — also, more successfully, many of my previous jobs involved editing social videos.

Some of my favorite directors, writers, and televisions shows are listed below. I would love to debate them with you!

most influential television shows

• The Golden Girls (1985 - 1992)

• Gilmore Girls (2000 - 2007, 2016)

• Desperate Housewives (2004 - 2012)

• Doctor Who (1963 - 1989, 2005 - )

• Glee (2009 - 2015)

• Modern Family (2009 - 2020)

• Political Animals (2012)

• Veep (2012 - 2019)

• Grace and Frankie (2015 - 2022)

• Kidding (2018 - 2020)

Career History

My first job was a barista and kitchen attendant for an office building. 5:00 AM shifts were a brutal start to the summer after my junior year of high school, but, behind the bar, I was able to drink all the Shirley Temples I wanted. The following summer, I moved up as a cashier for the minor league baseball park across the street. Owned by the same company, I traded early mornings for late nights. The workplace environment of a minor league baseball park is truly otherworldly. Here, I manned different food kiosks, each with its own theme and crowd. I sang karaoke with Dennis Haskins (AKA the one-and-only Mr. Belding). And I took pointers from our mascot, Lou E. Loon, when I later became the local hockey team’s mascot, Sammy Spirit, for a day. After the summer was over, I headed to California for the first of many times.

My next job was the first time I really felt I was on the right track. I just finished my first year at UCSD, I took major-specific classes, and I was jazzed for videography. Fortunately, there was a production house in my hometown called Rusted Rooster Media, and they hired me as an intern. What’s interesting about Rusted Rooster Media is that they specialize in outdoor lifestyles: camping, hunting - the works. While they have their own TV show, they mainly focus creating commercial content for this type of wilderness brand. Personally, I’ve always been an indoor person to the fullest extent. So, taking a job where I had to understand and create content for an audience I knew nothing about was exhilarating but not without its moments of frustration. I can clearly remember the day - it was in late June - we were shooting a video on tying a knot, and I looked up and saw a bunch of cameras that I could now name and describe and there were pre-production papers on the ground that I worked on, and I thought I finally made it - where I was proud to be a part of the team and I learned things I still use to this day (even if it was outside).

The following summer - after my sophomore year of college - I was part of an internship placement program in L.A. that combined a job and seminars on the workplace, our future careers, and more. I was placed at Destination Luxury, an online magazine and brand cultivator. Working near downtown L.A. was an overwhelming perk - I got Dunkin’ Donuts everyday and was badged into a building that was dozens of floors tall. Like Rusted Rooster Media, I was thrown into an audience I wasn’t familiar with: luxury brands. I was creating and organizing social videos for new and expensive hotel openings and writing listicles about unreleased cars. I was brought on as an editor, creating and captioning social videos, but I was able to shoot a few events too. One of my major tasks throughout the summer was re-organizing and compiling their YouTube channels into one (formatting titles, captions, thumbnails, etc.). Although it may sound tedious, this was one of my favorite tasks because seeing a renovated channel after cleaning up hundreds of videos was an incredible and satisfying feeling (I like to clean).

I graduated college after my junior year in 2018. At the start of January, I began interning at a local news station, NBC 7 San Diego. I was a news and digital intern, meaning I worked with the station’s website team. Here, I would write articles and help social our content. One of my over-arching tasks was to upload mastersave broadcast files into our digital system. Like formatting Destination Luxury’s YouTube channel, I was excited to take on an ever bigger cleaning project. I would take hundreds of hours worth of past news broadcasts on tapes and ingest them into digital files (completing a good chunk of the 80s). Also when we needed to pull content from a past broadcast for a new story, I would help ingest those files as well (we did so with a Shaun White story during the Olympics that year). Seeing NBC on my badge and around the station made me feel like I was a part of something bigger. It motivated me to take on more and more, especially during a high news season from the Olympics to the World Cup to award shows and from fire coverage to the midterm elections and a continuously eventful political era.

Once I graduated in June, I was offered a full-time position at NBC 7 San Diego. However, because of scheduling reasons, I was only able to work for the website three days a week. To fill the 40-hour gap, I took a job as a story producer at the station. Here, I would write scripts for news broadcasts and cut on-air video. Jumping between the two modes: digital and broadcast and keeping their distinct formats had its challenges. After the first month, I was confident in iNews and the station’s content management system, Clickability. A few months after, a full-time digital position opened up, and I moved to the website completely. While I learned a lot from the incredibly fast-paced world of broadcast, I was happy to focus on my favorite content: digital media.

And in yet another move — and another hat for my collection — I was promoted to Social Media Manager at the beginning of 2020. This position helped me narrow my passions of the vague “digital media” world: making digestible content. From cutting long news conferences into a series of tweets to writing about viral videos or cute animals that would garner loads of engagement, the act of summarizing big stories for short-form social media was where I found the most joy in the newsroom.

But while the actions felt right, the content felt off. So, I looked toward the entertainment industry, swapping unsolved mysterious for soapy shows. In the middle of 2021, I began working at FOX Entertainment as an Associate Social Media Manager before quickly being promoted to a Social Media Manager. From here, I discovered how my off-the-clock passions could combine with my on-the-clock responsibilities. Managing show pages for the likes of Bob’s Burgers, The Masked Singer, and Family Guy has been a dream-like master class in how to create digestible content for the new decade. And those passions continued, doubly so, when I transferred to Paramount+ and began exploring the streaming world as a Social Media Manager for Taylor Sheridan’s popular works, including 1923, Tulsa King, and Special Ops: Lioness. Working on “streaming drops” versus “network premieres” opened the door to such different and engaging creative. It was a blast to test, test, and test again! And even for the titles I wasn’t assigned to — like my hero Jane Fonda’s movie, 80 for Brady — I still managed to get in the door, voicing my ideas and love for the film and learning about their own, unique strategies, too. And, now, I work for Disney as the Senior Brand Social Media Manager, Freeform — taking all of these past experiences to the next level with some of the most beloved IP in the world. And, even now, I’m so excited for what’s still to come.