About 3 — katie-fahey

Education

Strategized, created, and edited compelling copy (long-form content, microcopy, and marketing materials), for users across all topics.
Created comprehensive guides (“white papers”)—involving extensive research, outlining, writing, and editing—to provide clear, easily digestible, and interactive content.
Collaborated with designers to ensure the visual devices complement and enhance the copy.
Worked with social media and marketing teams to devise strategic, focused campaigns to draw in new users.
Achievements:
Earned fast promotion from Research Writer to Associate Writer.
Recognized for versatility and ability to succeed in diverse roles: selected by CEO to serve as founding member of the Curriculum team (wrote 41% of 137 lesson plans for facilitators to use in classroom settings); tapped to co-lead High School Team.
Played key role in shaping the content and voice of the platform’s modules for students, educators, and parents.
Introduced a creative team-building initiative, “Disco Friday” to deepen relationships and connections.
Managed freelance writers’ schedules and provided feedback on their work.

Harvard University, Graduate School of Education

Master of Education in School Leadership (School Developer)

Columbia University, Teachers College

Master of Arts in Teaching of English

Dartmouth College

Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing

Collaborated with account managers to outline direct mail plans for seventeen different Democratic candidates running for state legislatures across the country.
Worked with designers to come up with eye-catching and thematically relevant designs for mail pieces.
Wrote catchy headlines and powerful copy for direct mail pieces, covering a range of topics on the ballot (e.g., reproductive rights).
Proofread direct mail designs to ensure that copy is error-free and complements visuals.

Read, scored, evaluated, and delivered detailed feedback on screenplays, teleplays, and other materials. 
Provided longer coverage up to 4 pages on feature screenplays.
Achievement: 
Leveraged network to gain consulting opportunities with Fresh Voices, LLC and Filmmatic in Los Angeles, CA.

Prepared personalized lessons for tests (SAT, ACT, SSAT, ISEE Verbal, SAT Literature & U.S. History Subject) and to build students’ vocabulary, grammar, and reading skills.
Achievement:
Helped ACT student raise verbal and reading scores from 26 to 34.

Wrote daily lesson plans and created tools for students (worksheets, essay outlines, project outlines).
Collaborated with other teachers to integrate educational opportunities.
Mentored a first-year teacher. Read lesson plans, observed classes, and provided feedback.
Achievements:
Spearheaded an innovative writing project and contest, “This I Believe” (NPR), at Stuart Hall High School, that fostered unity and community building.
Originated 1st-of-its-kind elective on Black literature and racial issues in America at The Beacon School.
Served as Black Student Union Advisor at The Beacon School, creating a safe space for students and faculty to discuss racial issues like cultural appropriation, microaggressions, activism, and race.
Served as Assistant Coach of freestyle skiing and girls’ lacrosse teams at Kimball Union Academy.

Palgrave Macmillan || Production Assistant (2007)

Goldman Sachs & Co. || Financial Analyst, Debt Capital Markets (2006)

Writing Achievements

Feature film, Widowed

Academy Nicholls Fellowship - Quarterfinalist (top 6% of 5,500 scripts entered), 2024
Scriptmatix Fellowship - Semifinalist, 2023

Pilot episode, Widows 

Pilot episode, Positives