freelance WRITER / passionate about justice, music, & film / DABBLING IN DESIGN / illustrator

elizabetH
CREGAN

Experience

Assistant media planner, essence global

New York, NY, December 2019 - Present

• Assistant Media Planner on the NBCU portfolio for both USA/SYFY and Corporate teams; providing support throughout media planning process, bridging communications across all business units

• Recently transitioned onto Comms team, working on big-picture approaches to media strategy

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project manager, the access project

Based in San Francisco, California, Summer/Fall 2019

• Project Manager–worked to establish pro-bono legal clinics across California; assisted clients in class-action suit; called clients, researched and organized data

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Intern, Folio literary management

New York, NY, Summer 2019

• Intern for Jeff Kleinman, founding partner of Folio

• Reviewed manuscripts, conducted market research, became familiar and assisted with agenting processes

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editor-in-chief, managing editor, CONTRIBUTOR; Bossier magazine

August 2016 - December 2018

Bossier is a student magazine devoted to promoting discourse on women and femme-centric issues and publishing work by women and femmes.

• Served as EIC for calendar year of 2018–currently run magazine both logistically and editorially, introduced a Writer's Workshop component to strengthen relationship between editors and contributors and take pieces to highest possible level. I am also currently creating a podcast for the magazine's blog

• Served as Managing Editor for Spring 2017–helped organize creative events on and off campus, worked with writers to hone their work, managed the editorial team's assignments and kept them on schedule

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associate board member, Georgetown university lecture fund

January 2016 - May 2019

The Lecture Fund is a selective non-partisan student-run organization that exists to enrich the academic experience of the Georgetown community. As a board member I do the following:

• Work to bring speakers to Georgetown's campus to spark productive dialogue amongst student body

• Reach out to potential speakers, negotiate contracts, and manage controversy–all fostering my communication skills

• Deal with logistics of planning events: book venues, market across campus, help University manage high-profile events

• Carried out my first event Fall 2016, bringing international best-selling poet Rupi Kaur to speak to an excited Georgetown audience

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intern, american news women's club

Washington D.C., Summer 2016

• Carried out production, created layout, and contributed content to seasonal newsletter, "ShopTalk"

• Helped organize and run summer programming, featuring various female authors and journalists

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corp member; jumpstart, georgetown

Washington, D.C., Fall-Winter 2015/16

• Employed as a Corp Member at Jumpstart, an organization that works to better prepare low-income preschoolers for Kindergarten

• Went into at-risk preschools to do Classroom Assistance Time–working closely with teachers to run their classrooms–as well as carried out Jumpstart's specific curriculum

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intern, pantheon of women

Houston, Texas, Summer 2014

• Paid intern at start-up production company working towards gender equality in the film industry and the global community

• Focused on research, marketing, and graphic design; wrote for their blog

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intern, Writers in the schools

Houston, Texas, Summer 2014

• Unpaid intern at local non-profit, helped to plan their annual Gala and its silent auction.

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Sales associate at biscuit home

Houston, Texas, Summer 2017

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sales associate at just paper & tea

Washington, D.C., Summer 2016-Present

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Interests

CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY / NONFICTION / FICTION

FILM & AUDIO PRODUCTION

WRITING & PERFORMING MUSIC

MUSIC PRODUCTION

GRAPHIC DESIGN & VISUAL ART