Darden R. Livesay III

38 New Street, Wilton, CT 06897

darden.livesay3@gmail.com

203–856-0198

EDUCATION

Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut, Storrs, CT | GPA: 3.94/4.00

Bach­e­lor of Arts, Jour­nal­ism, Polit­i­cal Sci­ence, May 2019

Study Abroad, UConn in Grana­da (Spain), Spring 2018

Wilton High School, Wilton, CT | 2011 – 2015 | GPA: 3.87/4.00

 

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Greek America Foundation, New York, NY

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Assis­tant (Part-time), May 2018 – Present, May 2017 – August 2017

  • Use Word­Press to redesign or update web­site pages about edu­ca­tion­al, vol­un­teer pro­grams and oth­er phil­an­thropic initiatives
  • Man­age dona­tions and mem­ber­ship sub­scrip­tions by main­tain­ing Google spread­sheets and email cor­re­spon­dence with supporters
  • Assist with plan­ning fundrais­ing events such as a bien­ni­al week­end awards gala in Man­hat­tan fea­tur­ing more than 400 attendees
  • Draft press releas­es for announce­ments such as dona­tions, schol­ar­ship oppor­tu­ni­ties and aca­d­e­m­ic pro­grams, among others

 

The Pap­pas Post, New York, NY

Con­tribut­ing Writer (Part-time), May 2018 – Present

  • Pitch ideas for sto­ries that appeal to a pre­dom­i­nant­ly Greek read­er­ship most­ly from the U.S., U.K., Aus­tralia, Cana­da and Greece
  • Inter­view sub­jects from acad­e­mia, sports and culi­nary arts, among oth­er pro­fes­sions, to gath­er infor­ma­tion for fea­ture stories
  • Man­age social media chan­nels by sched­ul­ing posts, mon­i­tor­ing com­ments and observ­ing analytics
  • Use Word­Press to pub­lish short and medi­um-length arti­cles opti­mized for Face­book audi­ence of more than 100,000 followers

 

91.7 FM WHUS Radio, Storrs, CT

 News Direc­tor, May 2017 – Decem­ber 2017

  • Assigned sto­ries to news staff and pro­vid­ed instruc­tion­al guid­ance as needed
  • Spear­head­ed com­pre­hen­sive train­ing work­shops in order to effi­cient­ly teach new mem­bers basic news­gath­er­ing skills
  • Cov­ered impor­tant on-cam­pus events and used Word­Press and Adobe Audi­tion to pro­duce writ­ten and audio news content
  • Attend­ed week­ly board meet­ings and main­tained reg­u­lar com­mu­ni­ca­tion with exec­u­tive board to track depart­ment progress

 

The Wilton Bulletin, Ridgefield, CT

 News Intern, May 2015 — June 2015

  • Cov­ered local news by attend­ing pub­lic events and inter­view­ing peo­ple in order to pub­lish stories
  • Cap­tured pho­tographs of dif­fer­ent local events to be fea­tured in the edi­to­r­i­al section
  • Pub­lished numer­ous fea­ture sto­ries on the front page of the news­pa­per with a cir­cu­la­tion under 6,000

 

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Caraluzzi’s Supermarket, Wilton, CT

Cashier, Deli, Seafood & Gro­cery Depart­ment, July 2012 — Jan­u­ary 2016 (Sea­son­al)

 

SKILLS

  • Mul­ti­me­dia: DSLR pho­tog­ra­phy; Adobe Light­room, Audi­tion, Pre­miere, Spark; Word­Press; Canva
  • Social Media: Insta­gram, Face­book; Mail­er­Lite; Loom­ly; Eventbrite
  • Lan­guages: Span­ish (Full Pro­fes­sion­al Pro­fi­cien­cy); Greek (Pro­fes­sion­al Work­ing Pro­fi­cien­cy); Ital­ian (Ele­men­tary Proficiency)

 

HONORS & AWARDS

Dean’s List (Fall 2015 – Spring 2019); Pan­Hel­lenic Foun­da­tion Schol­ar­ship (June 2018); Ambler Farm Schol­ar­ship (July 2015 — 2018); Edwin Gilbert School Trust Fund Schol­ar­ship (June 2015 — 2018); Susan Herb­st & Dou­glas Hugh­es Fam­i­ly Schol­ar­ship (May 2016 — 2018)