• Draft news releases, news briefs and media advisories on events related to the School
  
• Keep up with media clippings from local and state newspapers regarding public health
• Assemble press kits
  
• Collected materials on dealing with the media from a researcher's point of view and compiled the information into handouts
  for a workshop series

• Created flyers and wrote public service announcements for events and classes
  
• Produced a media list for the pottery program
  

Customer Service Representative Intern, University Directories,
Chapel Hill, N.C. (May 2001-Aug. 2001)

• Consulted with and provided quality support for 355 sales representatives and over 15,000 advertisers by
  resolving questions, providing supplies, and offering solutions to their problems
  
• Successfully fielded approximately 100 calls per week
• Attended a two-week customer relations and sales training program
  
  

• Researched and wrote articles for monthly newsletter
  
• Researched health related topics such as hypertension, skin cancer, and diabetes
  
• Planned and organized blood drives and cancer screenings
  
• Assisted in planning and organizing Relay For Life (a 24-hour walkathon to benefit cancer
  research), contacted businesses for sponsorships, set up concession stands and tents for
  sponsors
  

• Performed clerical tasks including answering phones, filing, distributing incoming mail, and compiling course notebooks for professors
  

• Alpha Chi Omega sorority
  • Organized event for 40 people
• UNC General Alumni Association

• Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Outlook and Outlook Express
  
• Macromedia Dreamweaver