Web Producer, Berkeley Carroll School | June 2001 to September 2003
Edited and maintained website for an independent (K-12) school. After I took over, hits to the site tripled.
Editor and Designer, Stay
Free! | September 1993 to present
Self-publish a magazine focussed on American media and consumer culture (circulation 10,000), requiring extensive writing, editing, and graphic design; researching; interviewing
scholars; design and upkeep of website; advertising and newsstand sales;
and overseeing interns. • Stay Free! is nationally distributed
and used in several high school and college classrooms across the U.S.
and Canada. • Positive reviews in the New York Times, Metropolis,
Advertising Age, I.D., The Guardian, Mother Jones, and
Village Voice, among others. • Reprints in Harper's, Utne Reader,
emigré, and Media Reader, among others.
Designer and Programmer, Metropolis
Magazine | March 2001 to June 2001
Redesigned internal pages of web site and created house ads.
Director of Advertising, Matador
Records | April 1995 to November 2000
Coordinated consumer advertising for Matador artists. Helped design ads and planned media campaigns. Founded, designed, edited, and co-wrote company newsletter, Escandalo!.
Producer, Matador
Records | April 1995 to May 1999
Founded, designed, and programmed company website; wrote most content.
Press highlights: New York Times Online interview
and article, Wall Street Journal review, Yahoo! Internet
Life cover story, selected as one of the
world's Top 30 websites by Entertainment Weekly (1997), and nominated
Best Record Label Site by Cool Site of the Year (1997).
[ OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE ]
Curator and Organizer, Illegal Art Exhibit | January 2002 to present
Founded travelling art exhibit focussed on copyright law. Extensive press coverage included the New York Times, Washington Post, Salon, Chicago Tribune, Boston Phoenix, Wired, ABC-TV News, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others.
Upper School Teacher, Berkeley Carroll School | August 2002 to April 2003
Developed and taught a history course, Mass Media and Consumer Culture. Posted entire course on the web, where it is used by hundreds of media teachers for free.
Researcher, Mark Crispin Miller | December 2000 to February 2001, July 2002
Collaborated with NYU professor Mark Crispin Miller on The Bush Dyslexicon. Conducted research on the Marlboro Man at the Smithsonian Archives in Washington, DC.
Freelance Writer,
Print, emigré, Feed, Spin, Mother Jones, Village Voice. |
Founder, Monkeywire.org
| Board Member, Center for Commercial-Free Public Education,
1998 to present. | Advertising Columnist,
Village Voice, 1998 | Volunteer Graphic Designer, Park Slope Greens,
1996. | Manager, WXYC-FM,
1989 to 1995--Founded and designed program guide.
[ SOFTWARE ]
Expert in InDesign, QuarkXPress, Photoshop, and HTML hand-coding.
Working knowledge of Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Javascript, Powerpoint, and Acrobat.
[ EDUCATION ]
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bachelor of Arts, Radio/Television/Motion Picture, 1991.