NOVEMBER 2019 – PRESENT 

OWNER, OPENROAD POETRY 

• Developed and created the ‘OpenRoad Poetry Poetry & Open Mic.’ 

• Assisted in raising donations for JC Writers, Jersey City Slam. 

• We have collaborated with Adam Noviello (Melbourne, AU), African Mermaid (Brooklyn, NY),  Bridgeport Art Trail (Bridgeport, CT), City Lights & Company (Bridgeport, CT), Paterson  Performing Arts Development Council (Paterson, NJ), In Full Color (Jersey City, NJ), Now Theatre (Paterson, NJ), , Bergen County Players (Bergen County), Elizabeth Youth Theatre Ensemble (Elizabeth, NJ), Heart of Hannah (Paterson, NJ) Hoboken Historical Museum (Hoboken, NJ) Jersey City Parks Coalition, True Colors Festival (New York, NY), Senegal America Project  (Senegal), @Walk_Bye (Jersey City, NJ), Word Seed Inc. (Paterson, NJ), and more.

• Offered freelance services including, writing, editing, press releases, social media management  technical support, and event photography.

• True Colors Project (2022)

• Paterson Performing Arts Development Council (2022)

• LifeArtLove TV (2022)

• Word Seed Inc (2022) 

• Theatre of the Oppressed NYC (2021) 

• GiNi Films (2021) 

• African Mermaid (2021) 

• Heart of Hannah (2021) 

• African Mermaid (2020) 

• Hoboken Historical Museum (2020) 

• A Poetry Reading with Shanna T. Melton (2020) 

• NJ Women Poets Make History (2020) 

• Invitational Poetry Night with Shanna T. Melton (2020)  

• Bloom Masterclass: Intro to Virtua Theatre (2020)  

• A Royal Reading Hour (2020)  

• In Full Color (2020)  

• Paterson Poetry Festival (2020)  

• A Lesson Before Dying (2020)  

• Youth Poetry Open Mic (2020)  

• Poetry at the Park (2020)  

• Poetry at the Gazebo (2020)  

• OpenRoad Poetry Podcast Collaboration: Speak Series by Word Seed Inc. (2020)

• OpenRoad Poetry Podcast: Nature Walk: A PhotoPoetry Zine (2020)  

• Virtual Youth Poetry and Open Mic (2020) 

• Virtual Poetry & Open Mic Featuring Just Putt (2020)  

• Poetry on the Porch (2020)  

• OpenRoad Poetry 2020 Poetry and Open Mic (2020)  

NOVEMBER 2017 – PRESENT 

OWNER, CRYSTAL LETTERS 

• Developed and created the ‘Crystal Letters Open Mic Night.’ 

• Assisted in raising donations for Women Rising, St. John’s Lutheran Church, JC Arts Program,  Copa Maribel, Hudson Pride Center, and Hudson Partnership CMO.

• I have collaborated with Paterson Performing Arts Development Council, Now Theatre,  Paterson Poetry Festival, Jersey City Arts Fund Committee, Speranza Theatre Company, Jersey  City Theatre Center, No Dominion Theatre Co., Riverview Jazz Organization, In Full Color: Bloom, J City Theatre, Vote Yes Jersey City, Your Move, Word Seed Inc. and more.

• Offered freelance services including, writing, editing, press releases, social media management  and event photography.

• Paterson Performing Arts Development Council (2022) 

• Enlightened Visions | TaNisha Fordham Productions (2022)

• Felicia Simmons 4 Asbury Park (2022)

• True Colors Project | Theater Resource Unlimited (2022)

• Walk-Bye (2022)

• Jersey City Free Public Library (2022) 

• Mike Sims Notary (2022)

• Dujuana Sharese (2022)

• A Mothers Touch of Love (2022)

• Jersey City Office of Cultural Affairs (2022)

• CoLAB (2021)    

• West Side Arts and Music (2021)   

• Brownstone Poets (2021)

• Danielle Freire for City Council (2021) 

• Raffa Art (2021)    

• Word Seed Inc (2021)

• Jersey City Theater Center (2020)

• In Full Color (2020)   

• No Dominion Theater Company (2020) 

• Publications: 

• Brownstone Poets (2022)

• Porter Gulch Review – Crone: Page 21 (2020) 

• Brownstone Poets (2020)  

• Poetry as Activism (2020) 

• Alien Buddha Magazine (2020)  

• New Feathers Anthology (2020) 

• A Very Affordable Art Show (2020)  

• Paterson Poetry Festival (2020) 

• In Her Words – Poems by Women of Color – Cookin' What You Taught Me (2019) 

• Exhibition Review – Panepinto Galleries presents Reflections by Candy Le Sueur (2019)

• New Jersey's Best Emerging Poets 2019 – Success: Pages 55 - 59 

• New Jersey's Best Emerging Poets 2018 – Stallion: Pages 16 - 17 

• Megazine Vol. II – The Traveler: Pages 8-9 (2017); 

• What I Forget, What I Remember: Pages 24-31 (2017) 

• Unapologetic Women – Unapologetic, 2017 

• ChicpeaJC – Author/Editor, 2015-2016 

• Rebel Circus – Author, 2015 

• PATHS, New Jersey City University – Distant Hymn, 2015 

• The Gothic Times, New Jersey City University – Writer/Editor-in-Chief, 2015 

OCTOBER 2015 – PRESENT

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING, SPERANZA THEATRE COMPANY 

• Managed social media content and help preparing materials for the website.

• Graphic Design for social media content and newsletters. 

• Offered freelance services including, writing, editing, press releases, social media management  and event photography, and photography editing.

• Walk By the Way of the Moon: Hudson County Parks Tour (2022)

• Women’s Playwrights Festival (2022) 

• HUDSONGIVES (2022) 

• Horseshoe Empire (2022)

• Walk By the Way of the Moon (2021) 

• Votes for Women Hudson County Tour (2020) 

• Votes for Women Jersey City Parks Tour (2020) 

• Virtual Story Slam (2019) 

• Winter Theatre Classes (2019) 

• Seasoned (2019) 

• Counting by Numbers (2019) 

• Unveiling Liberty at NJCU (2019) 

• History Alive: Votes for Women (2019) 

• Bergen Square Day (2019) 

• Unveiling Liberty at Leonard Gordon Park(2019) 

• Bridge Arts Festival (2019) 

• Summer Theatre Camp (2019) 

• Art in the Park (2019) 

• Storybooks to Stage (2019) 

• Spring Educational Program (2019) 

• Unveiling Liberty at The Apply Tree House (2019) 

• Storybooks to Stage (2019) 

• I Don’t Know How She Does It / Nancy Mendez Booth (2019) 

• NJ Women Playwrights Project (2019) 

• NEA Big Read (2019) 

• Winter Educational Program (2019) 

• Foodies (2018) 

• Fall Educational Program (2018) 

• History Alive at The Apple Tree House (2018) 

• Summer Theatre Camp (2018) 

• Vagina Monologues (2018) 

• Women Rising (2017) 

• Summer Theatre Camp (2016) 

• New Jersey Playwrights Project (2016) 

• Vagina Monologues (2016) 

• Janey Millers World Tour (2015) 

SEPTEMBER 2020 – 2021

SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER, JERSEY CITY THEATER CENTER 

• Offered freelance services including, writing, editing, and social media management. 

• Monitored conversations with Hootsuite and proactively reached out to key influencers and  artists within festival community. 

• Drafted reports and presentations for senior management to track incoming customer reviews,  social media analytics, and accomplishments that could be easily understood from a sales  perspective. 

• 2nd Annual Voices International Festival (2020) 

SEPTEMBER 2020 – 2021

ASSISTANT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, IN FULL COLOR 

• Participated in and prepared for event openings and special events. 

• Offered freelance services for technical direction for virtual performance. 

• In Full Color (2020) 

SEPTEMBER 2020

ASSISTANT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, NOW THEATRE 

• Facilitated Zoom rehearsals and technical rehearsals with the technical team. 

• Offered freelance services for technical direction for virtual performance. 

• A Lesson Before Dying (2020) 

AUGUST 2020 – SEPTEMBER 2020

MARKETING AND PR MANAGER, NO DOMINION THEATRE CO. 

• Wrote and edited press release for client. 

• Circulated press release and coordinating community outreach. 

• HindSight: Behind the Lens (2020) 

• America!: A Work in Progress (2020) 

AUGUST 2019 – OCTOBER 2019 

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING AND PR MANAGER, WEST SIDE ARTS AND MUSIC 

• Created and managed new social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

• Participated in and prepared for the festival.  

• Supported new business development, contributed to proposals and participated in social  media strategy/campaign pitches. 

• Offered freelance services including, writing, editing, press releases, community outreach, and social media management. 

• West Side Stories Festival (2019) 

MARCH 2019 – NOVEMBER 2019 

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING MANAGER, RIVERVIEW JAZZ ORGANIZATION

• Managed social media content for Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter through Hootsuite.

• Offered freelance services including, writing, editing, press releases, and social media  management. 

• Jazz and Micro-Bites (2019) 

• Jersey City Pier Fest (2019) 

• Spring Open House at Mana Contemporary (2019) 

• Jersey City Jazz Festival (2019) 

• Jazz Winter Soiree (2019) 

APRIL 2018 – NOVEMBER 2019 

SOCIAL MEDIA AND PR MANAGER, J CITY THEATRE 

• Initiated first effective social media marketing and managed all online activities for 1105 Media.

• Established "the voice" of the brand with social media, blogging and content development  devoted to the security industry. 

• Offered freelance services including, writing, editing, press releases, social media management  and event photography. 

• Box Office attendant. 

• Love Song (2019) 

• A Tuna Christmas (2019) 

• Bakersfield Mist (2019) 

• Clark Gable Slept Here (2018) 

NOVEMBER 2018 

MARKETING AND PR MANAGER, YOUR MOVE 

• Managed social media account, created a content calendar, and posted content for client.

• Created, edited, and circulated the press release and coordinated community outreach for the  festival. 

• Box Office attendant. 

• Your Move Modern Dance Festival (2018) 

• Your Move Modern Dance Festival (2017) 

• Your Move Modern Dance Festival (2016) 

• Your Move Modern Dance Festival (2015)

JUNE 2015 –NOVEMBER 2017

ASSISTANT TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ART HOUSE PRODUCTIONS

• Provided general administrative support, including calendar management, scheduling meetings,  board meeting minutes meeting and drafting correspondence. 

• Coordinated content for website, social media accounts, press releases, programs, ordering  offices supplies, management of volunteers and deliveries. 

• Engaged incoming clients and artists for performing arts space and gallery space. 

• Created press releases; assisted in managing lists of contacts, donors, and clients and social  media site. 

• JC Fridays Festival 

• JC Fridays Fall (2018) 

• JC Fridays Summer (2018) 

• JC Fridays Spring (2018)  

• JC Fridays Winter (2017) 

• JC Fridays Fall (2017)  

• JC Fridays Summer (2017) 

• JC Fridays Spring (2017)  

• JC Fridays Winter (2016) 

• JC Fridays Fall (2016)  

• JC Fridays Summer (2016) 

• JC Fridays Spring (2016)  

• JC Fridays Winter (2015) 

• JC Fridays Fall (2015)  

• JC Fridays Summer (2015) 

• JC Fridays Spring (2015)  

• Art House Gallery 

• Unreliable Narrator (2017)  

• A Dark Wood – Opening Reception (2016) 

• Errand into The Maze – Opening Reception (2016)  

• Exploration of Art: A Hands-On Tour of Art Mediums – Opening Recept. (2016) 

• Ecco Domus – Opening Reception (2016) 

• Vanishing Point – Opening Reception (2016) 

• All That Glitters – Opening Reception (2015) 

• YOUR MOVE: Dance Photography – Opening Reception (2015)  

• 3: Patricia Dahlman, Robyn Ellenbogen, Julie McHargue – Opening Reception (2015) 

• Joe Velez: Signal Loss – Opening Reception (2015) 

• Charles Kessler: 30 Years of Painting – Opening Reception (2015) 

• After Image: Contemporary Artists & Photography – Opening Reception (2015) 

• Constructive Interference - Opening Reception (2015) 

• Art House Black Box Theatre Productions – Assistant Producer 

• Leisure, Lust (2017)  

• SHEnanigans (2017)  

• Thinking In Full Color (2017)  

• In Full Color: In Celebration of Women’s History (2017)  

• Deep Breath (2017)  

• The Twelve Dates of Christmas (2016) 

• The Long Wet Grass (2016)  

• Brooklyn Gypsies: The Last Hipster in Brooklyn (2016)  

• The Handless Maiden (2016)  

• DISABLED JC: Smart, Funny and Surprising Short films (2016)

• Acting for Adults with Karina Arroyave (2016)  

• In Full Color: A Women’s History Month Event – (2016)  

• A Cookie Korquie Christmas (2015)  

• Pioneer Productions: I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (2015) 

• The House of Atreus (2015)  

• In Full Color (2015) 

• No Peeking Theatre: The Shapeshifter (2015) 

• Art House Black Box Theatre Youth – Assistant Producer 

• STAGES! Youth Company: Bring It On The Musical (2016) 

• STAGES! Youth Company: The Addams Family (2016) 

• STAGES! Youth Company: James and the Giant Peach (2015)

• STAGES! Youth Company: The Wizard of Oz (2015) 

• STAGES! Youth Company: Kick-Off (2015) 

• Art House Community, Fundraiser, and Gala Events 

• Art House at the Lutze (2017)  

• Cocktails Under the Stars (2017)  

• Bar “Fun” Raiser (2017)  

• GOAT (Greatest of All Time) (2017)  

• Comedy Open Mic (2017)  

• Art House Original Open Mic (2017)  

• Spoken Word and Poetry Open Mic (2017) 

• Music Open Mic (2017)  

• Comedy Open Mic (2017)  

• The Art of Tasting (2017)  

• Art House Original Open Mic (2017)  

• Spoken Word and Poetry Open Mic (2017)  

• Music Open Mic (2017)  

• Comedy Open Mic (2017)  

• Open Mic Feat. John Manion (2017)  

• Open Mic Feat. Ryan Roman (2017)  

• 11th Annual Snow Ball Gala (2017)  

• Open Mic Feat. Sean Van Kleef 

• Open Mic Feat. Aaya Perez (2016)  

• Open Mic Feat. Buttered Roll (2016) 

• Open Mic Feat. Nick E. Finn (2016)  

• Open Mic Season Kick-Off (2016)  

• Cocktails Under the Stars (2016)  

• Art House Summer Blowout (2016)  

• National Poetry Month with Wordsmithing (2016) 

• Wine Tasting to Support Art House’s Rebuild (2016) 

• Black Maria Film Festival Opening Gala (2016) 

• Open Mic Feat. Rashad Wright (2016) 

• 10th Annual Snow Ball Gala (2016

• Open Mic Feat. Patricia Kositzky (2016) 

• Cocktails Under the Stars (2015)  

• Art House Summer Blowout (2015)  

• Open Mic Feat. John T. Trigonis (2015) 

• Blue-Collar Broadway by Dr. Timothy R. White (2015)  

• Open Mic series Feat. Brooklyn Gypsies’ Flako Jimenez (2015) 

• Art House at Two Boots feat. Anna Fiszman and Paul Landesberg (2015) 

• No Peeking Theatre – Shapeshifter (2015) 

• STAGES! Youth Company Kick-Off (2015)  

• Black Maria Film Festival Opening Gala (2015) 

• Art House Open Mic w. Rich Villar (2015)