Always happy to step up and take lead.
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2nd Place, Freaknik Booty Shake Dance Contest
Took second place in a booty shake dance contest at Atlanta’s legendary Freaknik festival, 1998.
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Senior Class President, Montville High School, Class of 1987.
Ran on a platform of “Subcultures Unite.”
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Director of Information Services, Financial World Magazine
Talking hedge funds with editor Ronald FInk at the annual holiday party at the Plaza in NY.
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Captain, High School Lacrosse Team
Four years as captain of the lacrosse team.
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Manager, Harmony Fuller Jewelry
Ran all aspects of the biz in partnership with the designer, Harmony Fuller.
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Editor-in-Chief, Copy Tool Kit
Creator of The Home Depot online copy style guide aka The Copy Toolkit - a resource for brand voice/tone and copy standards across 10+ copy channels. Serving 25+ internal and external departments.
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Pulitzer Prize in History, Contributing Research
Discovered many gems from the archives in support of “The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation” winner of the Pulitzer Prize by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff.
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Boss, Tight Bros Network
Tight Bros Network has made dreams happen for thousands of emerging musicians. Voted “Best of Atlanta” Local Concert Promoter 2006, 2007 and 2008 - Creative Loafing, Atlanta.
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Chairman of the Board, eyedrum art & music gallery
Led the eyedrum, a 25-year-old all-volunteer nonprofit organization through its first decade, establishing structure, mission and values. Created a space to support thousands of emerging artists, musicians, new projects and businesses.
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Congressional Youth Scholar, New Jersey
Represented New Jersey at the National Young Leaders Conference. on Capitol Hill, Washington DC.
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"It's beautiful," Margarat Atwood's response to my first book.
“Brings into each of them [poems] the certainty of the interconectedness of words, of a content of psychic and social pressures, engaging with the disjuction of wealth and povery in the American culture, the omnipresent shadow of patriarchy and violence agains women.” - Small Press Distribution
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Publisher, Fifth Planet Press
This Open Face Sandwich - a literary annual - won Gold place in the “Fiction in the South” category. Published by my book-arts venture, Fifth Planet Press.
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Business Information SME, Atlanta Journal Constitution
Business and finance SME for the AJC’s newsroom specializing in online resources and regular columnist for the Investment Quarterly.