Patricia S.

Communications Director for New York City Council Member Sandy Nurse

* Created impactful high-profile video content, including a Mackenzie Scott yield call video that resulted in a $2M gift and an Inflation Reduction Act Advertisement with Senator Chuck Schumer. * Produced engaging short-form video content for Instagram and Facebook reels, aiding the significant growth of the organization's social media reach to 309k and 124k impressions and counting. * Secured press coverage in major news outlets including Politico, Univision, El Diario, ABC7, and Noticias NY1. * Trained organizational spokespeople as well as youth speakers for a variety of press, social media, and public-facing speaking opportunities. * Formed and led the 20+ organization Brooklyn Queens Expressway Environmental Justice Coalition’s Communications subcommittee, owning earned media placement, social media strategy, and the development of various design assets.

In addition to assisting with alumni specific content creation such as copywriting and designing newsletters, my position has changed to include the creation of graphics for the organization's social media channels that target more than 3,000 Twitter followers and 600 Instagram followers.

Completed a redesign of the monthly alumni newsletter. Creation and upkeep of the custom wordpress site that is used to match ScriptEd alumni with relevant internships and scholarships.

Assisted with the design of the website G9 Gives that tracks the amount of volunteer and donated hours of content created by the Group Nine Media employees for social good causes.

Created a logomark and redesigned the internal Emerging Platforms team website which showcased their most recent projects.

Helped build the company-wide slackbot GNA (Gender Neutral Assistant) for the Group Nine Media slack channel that promoted the use of gender inclusive language. Produced the GNA slackbot logomark.

Worked directly for the university non-profit organization Progressive Pupil that helps aid Black Studies in higher education and promotes Black stories through filmmaking. Redesigned their WordPress website and Tumblr page.

Minor in Psychology

I attended the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam during the Spring 2020 semester.