Written Works
My written works include several forms of writing, such as newswriting, social media marketing and blog writing. I also have experience with creation and implementation of Public Relations and Marketing Strategic Plans. Feel free to peruse some of my work below!
An old debt between the City of Sedalia and Pettis County is threatening to derail a roundabout improvement at State Fair Boulevard and Main Street.
Council members at Monday’s City Council Meeting discussed a potential deal between the city and Pettis County. This agreement would allow the city to replace the intersection at State Fair Boulevard and Main Street with a roundabout, hopefully improving traffic conditions in that area.
Part of the land the city needs to use to build the roundabout is an unused area owned by the county. The city had offered to buy this piece of land from the county to build the roundabout. The county sent a counteroffer that added transfer in ownership to the county of the property underneath the Pettis County Jail, which the city of Sedalia currently owns. Per a previous agreement, the jail will eventually be transferred over to the county; this proposal would make sure the land that is under the jail is transferred as well. City council members resisted the idea of accepting the county’s counteroffer.
City Council Report
I wrote this news report in Spring 2023. My assignment was to attend a city council meeting and report on it; my intended audience was adults located in Sedalia with an interest in current events within their local area.
Feature Story
Central Methodist University’s Virtual Clinical Counseling Internship Program offers ways for students in the program to grow in their counseling abilities while offering mental health help to students from multiple Missouri colleges, including State Fair Community College.
Impact on clients
Jennifer Bessert, 52, a student in the CMU Counseling Program, said one rewarding part of working in this program are the ways she sees the program affect her clients and the changes her clients make throughout the time she is working with them.
I wrote this news report about the counseling program at Central Methodist University (who SFCC partners with) and the program's impacts on students at CMU and SFCC. I interviewed a professor for the program and a student within the program. As my audience was current and potential SFCC students, I also interviewed Julie McNeal, SFCC’s Access and Disability Services Coordinator and Counselor.
Blog - The Pondering Pen
Imagine: You just woke up. It's early. You’re tired. You didn’t sleep much last night. Your first instinct is to go back to sleep, but if you do that, you won’t have time for part of your new morning routine, so you make yourself get up, groggily make some coffee, pick up your notebook and pen, and then…nothing. Your mind is still waking up, and you cannot think of a single word to put down on your paper, but you have to write SOMETHING, so you proceed to write “I don’t know what to write.” For three pages. Because that’s the rule of the journaling - you’re trying.
I created this blog for my Writing Across the Media class in Spring 2021. As a first time journaling hobbyist, I chose to take my audience on a “journey to journaling” and record my findings as I experimented with different types of journals and evaluated their pros and cons
Social Media Post
I wrote this post during my summer internship as well; it was intended to encourage the audience to complete the attached poll to give LCAA's concert committee insight into what types of shows their audience would be interested in. This post gained over 60 survey results, which was a good number for LCAA at the time.
Social Media Post
I created this post for my internship at LCAA during Summer 2023. The goal for this post was to create an informative post to engage the audience (middle-aged to older adults within the local area). This post gained more engagements than what LCAA typically received at the time and gave us insight into the types of content LCAA’s audience responded well to.