JULIA LYNNE ROGERS
417 East 90th Street #8E, New York, NY 10128
917-863-7201
julia.rogers4@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, Master of Fine Arts, January 2003
Carleton College, Northfield, MN, Bachelor of Arts in English, June 1998
WRITING, PUBLISHING AND TEACHING RESUME
Freelance Writer 2004-Present, New York, NY
I write for a variety of clients, both individuals and companies with specialty in the following areas: grant writing; all aspects of business writing; writing of press releases; music and film reviews; technical writing; website content and development; creative writing. My client base consists of musicians and artists, arts and education-related non-profit organizations, film and television production companies, music research and music production companies, lawyers, computer consultants and many other types of professionals, such as the following companies and individuals: Award Winning Music; composer Shaun Harris; www.RoyaltyFreeMusic.com; Jupiter Media; composer Mike Bielenberg; violinist/composer Simon Hewitt Jones (www.violinmp3.com); www.adopting.org; Elma Martin, poet and artist and others within both the small to medium-sized business and artistic communities.
Creative Arts Team, New York University, New York, NY
Grant Writer and Development Associate, 2002-2004
I was responsible for writing and development tasks associated with the Creative Arts Team, a non-profit educational theatre troupe working with public schools in all five New York City boroughs. I drafted foundation and corporate grant proposals and cover/thank-you letters, tracked all corporate, government and individual donations and helped plan fundraising events. My responsibilities included the following tasks: updating the individual donor database and maintaining contact with donors and potential donors; tracking responses to direct mailings; tracking and recording daily contributions; preparing reports for weekly development meetings with the Executive Director and the Director of Development and Marketing; writing all corporate/foundation and government grant proposals for the variety of programs and services offered by the organization; visiting public schools throughout New York City and the surrounding boroughs to gauge the effectiveness of the programs. I was responsible for securing several major grants, including contracts with the National Endowment for the Arts and for the New York City Department of Education.
Leake and Watts, Inc., Yonkers, NY
Grants Coordinator, Assistant Director of Development, 2001-2002
I handled fundraising tasks within the development office of a non-profit foster care and adoption agency. I ran the entire grants program of a $60 million dollar per year budgeted government Agency. I was accountable for the following tasks: crafting daily, weekly and monthly cash reports and monthly Board of Directors financial reports; drafting the annual development Final Report and Operating Plan; updating the individual donor database and maintaining contact with all donors and potential donors; tracking responses to direct mailings; tracking and recording daily contributions; researching grant opportunities and crafting grant proposals to obtain private and government funding; maintaining strong relationships with donors and potential donors through phone contact, on-site visits and written correspondence.
Cancer Support Center, Homewood, IL
Research, Marketing and Development Assistant, Events Coordinator, 2000-2001
I assisted the development department of a free resource and support center for cancer survivors and their families and friends in the Chicago area. I conducted many tasks related to writing and fundraising, such as locating and making contact with prospective donors, managing incoming funds, maintaining/updating the database and documenting and acknowledging in-kind and monetary donations for the Center. I completed the following responsibilities: gauging and documenting daily income - contributions, reimbursements, in-kind donations, grants and running income batches for bank deposit; writing and sending donation acknowledgement letters; making phone calls to request contributions; drafting informational letters and reports about the Center and its events and programs for contributors; researching prospective donors; creating a monthly newsletter and media packages for the center; revising and re-drafting by-laws and legal documents; directing participants to appropriate counselors, reading materials and programs at the Center; planning and running celebrity-hosted Center benefit galas and events.
Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
Teaching Assistant, Composition and English 1999-2001
I assisted in teaching under-graduate Composition and English courses at the University while working towards my MFA in Creative Writing. My responsibilities included the following activities: drafting lesson plans; selecting reading material and developing study resources and questions; outlining and developing term paper and other writing assignments; leading class discussions about reading material; grading writing assignments and sitting in on office hours for students looking to gain out-of-class help.
KinderCare Learning Centers, Woodbury, MN
Head Preschool Teacher, 1998-1999
I was responsible for teaching twenty-five children between the ages of three and five in a classroom setting, eight hours per day, five days per week. My responsibilities included the following tasks: preparation of weekly lesson plans based upon a pre-established curriculum that revolved around a variety of subjects including music, art, basic mathematics, science and pre-literacy activities; teaching of basic hygiene and eating/nutritional habits; planning of monthly field trips and special activities; drafting of monthly progress reports for parents; planning and conducting teacher-parent conferences bi-annually to discuss each child's progress and report on special class events.
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Associate Editor, Staff Writer, 1995-1998
I wrote all swimming articles for the sports section of the official college newspaper "The Carletonian" along with a variety of articles and reviews about plays theatre productions for the Arts section. With a co-writer, I drafted weekly articles covering swimming and diving meets for the Carleton College team and was responsible for article layouts and photographs. I handled press and coordinated reviews for the American debut of playwright Patrick Marber's work Closer in 1998, peformed as a student director's project at the college.
I also managed all editing and copy-editing of "The Second Laird Miscellany," the weekly Carleton College English Department newsletter distributed to faculty, students and alumni. With another editor, I worked to solicit writers for weekly feature stories related to the English department and wrote articles and conducted interviews of faculty members and visiting lecturers in English-related fields. I also was responsible for all distribution of the newsletter and ran weekly meetings to prepare each issue and discuss future plans for the publication.
AWARDS
Ostrowsky Humanities Award for Outstanding piece of Non-Fiction Writing from Roosevelt University, 2000 and 2001
Marquette University Women's Studies Conference, Spring 2000: I was selected for a panel on the female perspective in Romantic fiction. I wrote and presented a paper on Jane Austen's Persuasion and the nature of the unconventional romantic female heroine and led a panel discussion.
PUBLICATIONS
"My Left Chin," an essay published in Opium Magazine, April, 2001:
http://www.opiummagazine.com/entry.asp?PageID=1277
OTHER SKILLS
Music and Song-writing
I have studied music privately and diligently since the age of 4. Proficient in cello and piano and also a singer, I have worked as a private piano and cello instructor for beginning students in my own home off and on since 1991. I have at many points maintained between four and five students between the ages of seven and fourteen. Many of my students went on to study music at institutions such as the School for Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago and Eastman School of Music and have pursued careers in music performance.
In 1999, I added guitar to my repertoire of instruments, and since moving to New York City in 2001 have further added electric bass. For three years I performed, recorded and wrote songs for soul/R&B/punk group, The Demands, appearing on vocals, organ, piano and keyboards on one album, "Play for You" (Deep Eddy Records) and four variety compilations which featured several of my songs. From 2002-2005 I played shows throughout New York City, New Jersey, Las Vegas, NV and Massachusetts. I continue with songwriting and musical performance and currently play cello and bass in a country swing band.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft Office, Raiser's Edge, Adobe PageMaker, Photoshop, Microsoft Access, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, many other desktop publishing applications