Bringing People Together
For this article, I interviewed leaders from three identity-based organizations in the conservation industry. I pitched this topic to the magazine editor and sourced the interviewees on my own. This article was originally published in the October 2021 issue of Connect Magazine. Read the article on AZA’s website. Accountability Within the AZA Accreditation Process
For this article, I interviewed members of the Accreditation Department and members of the Accreditation Commission at AZA. This article was also published in the May 2022 issue of Connect Magazine. Read the article on AZA's website. |
Growing Our Own
For this article, I interviewed leaders throughout the AZA membership who have participated in the Executive Leadership Development Program. I also interviewed the two professional development coaches that work with AZA and this program. I pitched this topic to the magazine editor and sourced the interviewees on my own. This article was originally published in the February 2023 issue of Connect Magazine. Read the article on AZA's website. Striking a Balance
For this article, I interviewed education and behavioral husbandry staff at AZA-accredited facilities. This article was originally published in the April 2022 issue of Connect Magazine. Read the article on AZA's website. |
During the COVID-19 pandemic, my team at Walt Disney World began to work from home. While working at home, we came up with different ideas on how to engage our audience, continue to tell our animal stories, and educate people about our animals. The Disney Youth Programs Series already worked with Kahoot! to publish quizzes, so my team wrote a few animal-focused quizzes to put on the site. I wrote the Baby Animals 101 quiz and answers, and I matched photos to the questions for all of the quizzes that my team wrote. Kahoot!'s main audience is elementary to middle school students, but it is open to all ages. Click on the photo above to go to the main Disney Youth Programs Kahoot! page, or click on the photo to the right to go directly to the Baby Animals 101 quiz that I wrote.
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I wrote a blog post about philanthropic giving via estate planning. To write this blog I interviewed two attorneys from Henderson, Franklin, Starns & Holt, which is a firm in Fort Myers, Florida. Writing this blog was a great learning experience and I was able to take what I learned and give advice to the nonprofit that I was interning at, the Gulf Coast Humane Society.
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I wrote a blog post about adopting a senior dog at a shelter. The blog includes reasons why a senior dog can complete a home and examples of some of the senior dogs that are at the shelter now. It was published on the Gulf Coast Humane Society's blog page on their website.
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I wrote a press release about the Gulf Coast Humane Society's Senior to Senior Fostering program. It was picked up by the Florida Weekly in Fort Myers, Florida.
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I reported and wrote this story about the manatee population replenishing in the springs as a contributing writer for the Independent Florida Alligator. I learned so much when I wrote this article because I had to do research in order to find the correct people to talk to about this subject. I spoke with people at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Services as well as people at the Department of Environmental Protection. Also, I learned about the publishing process and worked with the editors to edit my article.
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