As a communications specialist, Alex has had the opportunity to assist in outreach and execution for a range of organizations and events in advocacy, education, and the arts. They have experience with coordinating resources, preparing newsletters and copy, reaching out to press, and more. Read about their various past positions below.
SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement
For most of 2022, Alex was the Communications and Podcast Specualist at SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, promoting events as well as the office’s podcast, Below the Radar. They also worked on the Office’s website and in the execution and recording of various events.
notable projects and responsibilities
- Assisted in social media promotion (copy, metadata, and graphics, on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook) for podcast episodes and office events, as well as pitching the latter to local arts & culture calendars
- Supported guests and presenters at major events such as CERi Horizons, a 2022 research conference.
- Recorded, edited, promoted, archived, composed, and transcribed for episodes of Below the Radar, the office’s podcast.
- Created webpages for podcast episodes and events using Adobe Experience Manager.
- Completed the office’s vast, decade-long archive of podcast episodes and events, uploading them to SFU’s academic hub, SFU Summit, with adequate metadata, accessibility, and description for current and future SFU students to study and cite.
posAbilities
In 2021, Alex was the Special Projects Worker at the disability advocacy nonprofit, posAbilities. As a neurodivergent invididual themself, Alex was deeply passionate about the work, and assisted not only in social media and events, but in other administrative and communicative tasks, such as assisting in planning and outreach for Inclusion, BC’s largest disability arts show, and creating the first draft of the organization’s 2021 Annual Report.
notable projects and responsibilities
- Assembled first draft of 2021 Annual Report, completing tass such as interviewing the organization’s CEO and gathering information and statistics from various departments
- Assisted in outreach and planning for the 2021 iteration of Inclusion, the province’s largest disability arts show, which had to be socially distanced due to COVID-19
- Created graphics and copy for Instagram and Twitter
- Designed a resource hub of inclusive summer camps across British Columbia, detailing their accommodations, divided by region
- Wrote internal and external newsletters for the organization, alonside updating the internal company calendar with major events
On-Campus Efforts
Alex spent several years as the Communications Executive of SFU’s Creative Writing Club, and helped put together SFU We Were Here, a zine project which highlighted (and compensated!) the visual and written works of queer students on campus.
Other
Back in 2021, when working for the now-defunct Averno franchise, Alex proposed a Team Newsletter, allowing for not only another means of promoting Averno projects, but a way for team members to highlight their own work without disrupting Averno’s content flow. While the newsletter only ran for a couple of months before Averno shut down, it managed to amass over a thousand subscribers and became a hub for news about what team members were doing outside of the franchise.
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