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Hi, I’m Julie!
I’m a communications expert and multimedia artist with experience reporting on science, health, and education. For the last three years, I managed the communication and outreach effort for a non-profit conservation organization.
About Me
I’m a writer, graphic designer, multimedia artist, journalist, and storyteller based in New York. I graduated summa cum laude from Stony Brook University in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and communication and a minor in digital arts.
During my time as a journalist and reporter, I covered medicine, esports, community events, science, and education. I worked directly with the School of Journalism and Communications at Stony Brook University to design and create content for ScenesFromAPandemic.com and StonyBrookTransformed.com, and to interview scientists and health experts on the university’s campus who were on the front lines of COVID-19 research.
After graduation, I worked as a freelance journalist and content designer. I briefly worked with AnsrSource, where I worked directly with a subject matter expert to create a five-part online course on business resilience and security.
From 2023 through 2025, I worked as the Outreach and Communications Manager and the Fellows Program Manager at the Safina Center, where I managed social media accounts and websites, wrote copy, edited and published blog posts, designed and produced print media with InDesign, created presentations and digital assets, and assisted in audio/visual production at three separate annual events at the Explorers Club in New York City.
Skills
Experience
The Safina Center
Media and Outreach Manager, Fellows Program Manager
July 2023 – February 2026
- Managed and created content for 13 social media accounts across six different platforms, all of which saw an average engagement increase of roughly 30%.
- Maintained and designed pages for both the Safina Center’s and Carl Safina’s Squarespace website.
- Designed and managed Meta ad campaigns for the release of Carl Safina’s books Alfie & Me and Owls in Our Yard, achieving an engagement rate of 12%.
- Wrote and designed a bi-weekly newsletter via Campaign Monitor with a 9% click-through rate.
- Designed and wrote copy for three annual reports in Adobe InDesign for physical magazine-style printing.
- Edited, optimized, and uploaded regular blog posts on the Safina Center’s website.
- Hosted, edited, and transcribed two original podcast episodes featuring interviews with Safina Center Fellows
- Created the run-of-show, all physical media, all digital media, and assisted in audio/visual production for three events with 100 attendees each year at the Explorers Club in New York City.
- Drafted advertising copy for speaking events featuring Carl Safina.
- Wrote 10 grant applications, securing funding for to the Safina Center.
- Scouted six Safina Center Fellows through networking and online research.
AnsrSource
Instructional Designer
February 2022 – June 2022
- Interviewed a subject matter expert on the topic of cybersecurity and business continuity and used the information provided to craft an online college-level learning course.
- Wrote and edited text-based learning material and educational video scripts.
- Collaborated with an art and design team to pre-visualize educational videos
Thunder Studios
Blog Content Creator
May 2020 – February 2021
- Collaborated with a statistics team to analyze the results of a weekly, four-month-long esports league and create written content based on the data.
- Crafted storylines centered around professional gamers leading up to the end of the league.
Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism and Communication
Web Designer, Writer, Researcher
May 2020 – June 2021
- Managed the overall HTML functionality and CSS design of both ScenesFromaPandemic.com and
- StonyBrookTransformed.com, two Wordpress websites made to highlight the work of journalism students and university and hospital staff and researchers during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
- Contacted and interviewed several scientists and researchers to contribute to an archive of research being conducted
at the University and Hospital campuses. - Wrote and edited narrative and news articles, including the most read piece on the university’s jounralism website.