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MEDIA EXPERIENCE
Jen DeMoss, Freelance Writer | Aug. 2022 – present
Business Owner
• Help companies, nonprofits, and academic institutes tell compelling stories that connect them with their audiences
• Develop strategies to guide organizations’ content and assess their competition
• Write blog posts, press releases, white papers, case studies, articles, campaign media, social media and other forms of content
• Provide editing and proofreading services to shape stellar copy
• Contact and interview sources for articles and press releases
Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council | Jan. 2020 – Aug. 2022
Communications Director
• Created original content for press releases, articles, external publications, promotional materials, and social media
• Developed, filmed, and edited educational video content
• Editor of the Current Reflections newsletter
• Interviewed sources for articles and press releases
• Edited staff communications
The News & Observer Raleigh, NC | June 2019 – Aug. 2019
AAAS Mass Media Fellow and science reporter
• Researched, pitched, wrote, and edited science articles
• Contacted and interviewed sources
• Produced videos and photos to accompany articles
• Developed networks of public information officers and other sources
• Collaborated with photojournalists and editors for multimedia projects
The Athens Science Observer | May 2015 – Dec. 2016
• Edited and fact checked graduate students’ science blog posts
• Wrote posts on topics in ecology and anthropology
Endangered Species UPDATE | Jan. 2008 – May 2009
• Served as journal editor and features and review writer
• Solicited, edited, and fact checked articles
Michigan Sports and Fitness Magazine | Summer 2006
• Pitched, researched, interviewed for, photographed, and wrote a majority of content for the summer 2006 edition.
Education
PhD Anthropology and Integrative Conservation
University of Georgia, 2011 – 2019
BA Program in the Environment
Minor: Spanish
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2007 – 2009
Professional Experience
Jen DeMoss, Freelance Writer | Aug. 2022 – present
Business Owner
• See Media Experience
Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council | Jan. 2020 – Aug. 2022
Communications Director
• In charge of sharing the Watershed Council’s mission and work through print and digital mediums
• Developing an overarching communication and branding strategy
• Implementing a storytelling style guide for staff to create more engaging public communications.
• Planning and promoting events
• Creating fundraising materials
University of Georgia Anthropology Department | 2011 – 2019
Teaching and research assistant
• Designed and implemented a multi-year interdisciplinary research project on wilderness education
• Conducted over 200 interviews and used videographic methods
• Co-taught split-level course on videography and video editing
• Worked as teaching assistant for anthropology courses
University of Michigan Biological Station | May 2017 – June 2017
Ethnobotany teaching assistant
• Taught identification and cultural significance of plant species
• Created, reviewed, and administered quiz and test materials
• Directed field and classroom lab activities
• Guest lectured on the origins of ethnobotany and European herbalism
Skills
• Research
• Storytelling
• Interviewing
• Adobe Premiere Pro
• DSLR videography and photography
• Copy and content editing
• Team-based project management
• Anthropology, botany, ecology, and education
• Explaining complex scientific concepts to nonspecialist audiences
Professional Memberships
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• National Association of Science Writers
• American Anthropological Association
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