Version 1.0
01/2009

I am a public
relations
practitioner
with over 4
years of
experience

media relations
and publicity

strategic writing
and copy editing

social media
and online communication

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association
Nov. 2008 – present

Plan and pursue publicity
opportunities and
strengthen media
relations

Create and
implement
online and
social media
strategies

Produce and
manage online
press room

Manage organization’s
photography needs

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association
Nov. 2005 – Nov. 2008

Supported
marketing
and education
endeavors with
public relations

Coordinated pr efforts
for music director
announcement

Coordinated
pr and marketing
activities for
Silk Road Chicago

Carol Fox & Associates, Chicago, Illinois
Sep. 2005 – Nov. 2005

Publicity for clients such as
Third Coast International
Audio Festival, Governors
State University and Dance
Chicago

Assisted with national and local press
during red carpet events for the 41st
Chicago International Film Festival

The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind
Jan. 2005 - Jul. 2005

Part of public relations
department that won the
Publicity Club of Chicago’s
prestigious 2006 Golden
Trumpet award for
community relations

Merchandised
Wall Street Journal
front page article
to media and clients,
experiencing
widespread media
coverage and
congressional support
for the Javits-Wagner-
O'Day Act

2003-2005 Bachelor of Arts, cum laude
Marketing Communication; Public Relations
Columbia College Chicago, Illinois, United States

Executive Vice President,
Collegiate Chapter of the
American Marketing
Association
Winner of the
Columbia College Chicago
2004/2005 Academic
Excellence Award
Scholarship

Extensive computer
skills: MS Office
2007, Adobe Creative
Suite 3, WordPress,
Macromedia Flash
and Dreamweaver,
JavaScript, CSS and
HTML programming

Fluent in Dutch,
English and German
Studied advanced
French and Latin
Studied
intermediate
Spanish and basic
Ancient Greek

Maestro Muti was
appointed the
Orchestra’s tenth
music director on
May 5, in an
announcement that
was celebrated
worldwide

National Press Local Press Online
New York Times Chicago Tribune ArtsJournal
Los Angeles Times Chicago Sun-Times Musical America
USA Today Chicago Daily Herald AOL
National Public Radio Crain’s Chicago Business Fox News
The Philadelphia Inquirer Pioneer Press Newsday
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Northwest Indiana Times Forbes
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The Rest Is Noise.com
Saint Louis Post-Dispatch Chicagoist
Gramophone Chicago Examiner International
New York Magazine International Herald Tribune
Chicago Public Radio La Repubblica
Wire Services WFMT 98.7FM Il Giornale
Associated Press La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno
Reuters WTTW Chicago Tonight Quotidiano Nazionale
Bloomberg News WBBM-TV CBS 2 News Corriere della Sera
United Press International WGN-TV Morning News Corriere del Mezzogiorno
Agence France Press CLTV Early Morning News
Deutsche Presse-Agentur WLS-TV ABC 7 News

On June 1 and 2, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra welcomed its
newly appointed music director, Riccardo Muti, to Chicago.
Maestro Muti held a press conference with over 100 reporters,
camera crews, and cultural and civic leaders from the city in
attendance.
Riccardo Muti
press conference
on June 2, 2008 at
Symphony Center
(click on the video to start)

NPR’s Performance Today
(click speaker icon to start audio)
WBEZ Chicago Public Radio
(click speaker icon to start audio)
WTTW’s Chicago Tonight
(click on the video to start)

Silk Road Chicago was an unprecedented collaboration among the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Department of
Cultural Affairs and Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project, along with more than 70
Chicago cultural and community organizations.
More than 50 Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Center Presents
classical, world music, family and educational—all carrying the theme of Silk
Road Chicago—anchored Symphony Center’s 2006-2007 season.
The following list represents only a few of the many articles published:
Associated Press Symphony Magazine WBBM-TV CBS 2 News
New York Times WGN-TV News
Denver Post CLTV News
Chicago Tribune The Philadelphia Inquirer WLS-TV ABC 7 News
Chicago Sun-Times WMAQ-TV NBC 5 News
Chicago Reader Chicago Public Radio WFLD-TV Fox News
Time Out Chicago WFMT 98.7FM
Chicago Magazine

Chicago Tribune - April 15, 2007
Silk Road wraps up its successful run
By John von Rhein
“What could easily have turned into a scattershot array of world music
performances cloaked in gassy Global Village platitudes has instead proved a
remarkably coherent, successful and exciting artistic, educational and humanistic
endeavor.”
Associated Press – April 7, 2007
Famed cellist says Chicago a major stop
on Silk Road
By F.N. D‘Alessio
“There's no denying the popularity of Silk Road Chicago. Last year's inaugural
concert brought a record audience of 13,500 to Chicago's downtown Millennium
Park, and Ma expects to see an even larger crowd for the finale, which will
include hundreds of students from the city's public schools.”

On February 2, 2005, the
Lighthouse experienced one of
its most exciting days in recent
history. Thanks to the hard
work of the entire staff of the
Lighthouse, but most of all
thanks to public relations
director Dominic Calabrese,
the Lighthouse was featured
on the front page of the Wall
Street Journal.
I helped to make sure the
Lighthouse would receive
maximum benefit from this
public relations coup.
The objective was clear:
spread the news.

Within a matter of hours the first
television crews were interviewing
the executive director and filming
Lighthouse Industries

Print
Feb. 2, 2005 Wall Street Journal \"Blind clockmakers face Chinese competition”
Feb. 3, 2005 Daily Herald \"Chicago's blind clockmakers face competition from China”
Feb. 7, 2005 Chicago Sun-Times \"Local clockmaker may be short on time”
May. 26, 2005 Chronicle of Philanthropy \"Charity Races to Turn 15 Minutes of Fame Into a
Long-Term Benefit”
Jun. 1, 2005 Advancing Philanthropy \"Public Relations Big Time!”
Television
Feb. 2, 2005 NBC 5 Chicago WMAQ-TV News at Five | 2:08
Feb. 2, 2005 ABC 7 Chicago WLS-TV News at Six |2:31
Feb. 2, 2005 WB 9 Chicago WGN-TV News at Nine | 2:54
Feb. 2, 2005 CLTV Ch. 51 Chicago CLTV News | 1:20
Feb. 5, 2005 HD TV High Definition News
Feb. 24, 2005 PBS 11 Chicago WTTW-TV Chicago Tonight | 5:30
Jun. 18, 2005 ABC Television Network World News Saturday | 2:18
Radio
Jul. 5, 2004 WBBM Newsradio 780 Made in Chicago

May. 17, 2005 - House of Representatives
Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.)
“We are always looking for the most cost-efficient
way of doing business. We also better look at the
needs of our people and we better look at the needs
of the people in our community to provide
opportunities for blind people to work, to have
dignity, to have pride, to have a sense of self-worth.
We should not let anything erode that, we should
not let anything take that away and so I would urge
us, as we purchase, as we continue to purchase
clocks, that we remember something the bible says:
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Some
people can see but have no vision; sometimes our
policies reflect the ability to see, but not in a
visionary way.
Please, America, let’s not put the people at The
Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind out of work. Let’s
keep them working and hopefully all the rest of us
will be able to see.”

Chicago Tribune – February 1, 2008
Lorca lives through dance, opera,
visual arts and more
By John von Rhein
“When the Chicago Symphony Orchestra mounts an important downtown premiere,
it does it up big. Very big. The CSO’s downtown premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s one-
act opera, ‘Ainadamar,’ has been expanded into a citywide partnership with Instituto
Cervantes and the Albany Park Theater Project. The three Chicago arts institutions
are paying homage to Federico García Lorca, the great Spanish poet, playwright and
cultural icon whose ghostly presence hovers over ‘Ainadamar.’ The movable feast of
Lorca, in music, theater, film and the visual arts, begins next week and runs through
March.”
WBEZ Chicago Public Radio Eight Forty-Eight
Opera Inspires High School Students
By Catalina Maria Johnson (click speaker icon to start audio)

Manage weekly
Web content for
BP Chicago
Symphony
Orchestra Radio
Broadcast Series
Attracting over
60,000 visits to
date

Initiated Chicago Symphony
Orchestra’s first ever online
press room; increasing
efficiency and visibility

Initiated Chicago
Symphony Orchestra’s
Facebook presence
Opening doors to
engagement,
conversation and
participation

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