resume

Collaborate with director and marketing on data-driven campaigns for increased brand visibility, including editorial, email, and social media components

Curate and edit city guide books (160+ pages each)

Create guides for Apple Maps partnership, resulting in over 100k clicks to site and counting

Edit daily articles in CMS; refresh older stories with consideration for metrics and SEO best practices

Wrangled a delightful, global team of 50+ foodie freelancers to schedule daily content

Mentored writers to weave sincere narratives and craft compelling, human-centered stories

Scheduled, wrote, and presented metrics on daily social media posts and 3x weekly newsletters (with over 60k recipients) before handover to new social and marketing teams

Editing: Work with subject matter experts to edit high-level reports and coursework for international organizations, ensuring technical accuracy and clarity of content while aligning with organizational voice and tone (United Nations FAO, UNESCO Kabul).

Copywriting: Collaborate with stakeholders to craft research-based copy for hotel, museum, and shop websites (Odunpazari Modern Art Museum, Tasigo Hotels, OMM shop).

Strategy: Create brand guidelines defining voice, tone, and editorial best practices; use metrics to lay out content for digital campaigns (Fluxable, Yabangee, Culinary Backstreets).

Writing: Pitch and write stories and essays on topics like food, travel, art, energy, and sustainability (CNN.com, The Energy Year, Yabangee, The Bold Italic, Time Out, Condé Nast).

E-commerce: Perform market research to update and write gift guides and product reviews, including a top-10 revenue-generating guide (SELF Magazine, Glamour).

Book editing: Line edit art, travel, food, and energy publications (Dogan, Energy Year, CB).

Restructured tone of YouTube Copyright canned responses, which go out to YouTube’s 1.3 billion users.

Advised internal teams at Google, as well as rights and stakeholders, on copyright operations

Trained admins in protecting users’ free speech through investigating patterns of abuse and fair use; approved escalations involving high-profile content (e.g. political ads, Adele’s “Hello”)

Consistently set and outperformed metric requirements with an error rate of less than 0.4%

Performed quantitative quality assessments (QC) of admins and operational tools

Inspected and processed legal notifications pursuant to the U.S. DMCA, international copyright laws and YouTube/Google policy

Wrote biographical and historical "scribbles" for the Google Doodle team

Edited on-page for daily paper before government takeover

Oversaw production of all content posted to the site (50 stories a day); worked independently as well as directly with writers and execs in a fast-paced newsroom

Created SEO and web best practices for all headlines and copy and updated content in Joomla CMS

Directed and cultivated team of 30+ writers; co-headed meetings and brainstorming sessions

Streamlined website to retain viewers, maximize growth and highlight buzzworthy content

Boosted social media presence from 200 to 1k followers; launched Instagram collaborations and competitions

Pitched, produced and edited stories; selected photos and uploaded content onto website using Wordpress CMS

Managed four classrooms of 30 students each in 3-hour blocks

Chaired an international English teaching conference attended by over 400 educators

Represented the U.S. Fulbright Commission in Turkey

Data-driven decision making

Voice, tone, and SEO best practices

Multimedia editing and digital production in various CMS

Adobe Creative Suite, Quark

Multimedia editing

Strong working knowledge of AP Style and Chicago Style 

Turkish (C2) 

Sexual Assault Hotline Counselor

Fundraising for Refugee Aid Fethiye

Writers' Workshop Series Host at Istanbul & I

cooking, art, poetry, intersectional justice