Skills
Storytelling
Contributed to The Guardian and The Huffington Post
Completed ‘Content Strategy for Professionals: Engaging Audiences for Your Organization’ by Northwestern University on Coursera (100%)
Participated in NaNoWriMo 2012, a challenge to complete a novel during the month of November
Social media marketing
Set-up and manage social media platforms for the Funraisers Dragon Boat Festival event on Facebook, Twitter, Google and Pinterest
Contribute to the voice of London+Acumen on social media, London’s volunteer-led chapter of the international Acumen Fund
Developed and implemented a social media strategy for Tripobox, including Google+, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and LinkedIn
Starting things
Set-up high-ranking websites on WordPress and Blogger
Set-up Cards by Lucy Fuggle at the age of 13, selling handmade cards at fairs, stalls and to friends and local companies
Tech stuff
- Completed on Codeacademy: ‘HTML & CSS’, “Build a Professional Website: Build the Airbnb homepage”
- Completed on Treehouse: ‘How to Make a Website with WordPress’
- View accomplishments on my coderbits profile
Languages
Currently self-teaching Icelandic, using applications such as Memrise to achieve a basic level of understanding
Learning Catalan after living in Barcelona for 7 months
Completed a basic Italian evening class during my first year of university
Research and reading
Areas of interest: effective and unconventional learning techniques, bibliotherapy, introverted leadership
Completed my goal to read Tolstoy’s major works before my 21st birthday
Undergraduate essays include:
- Gender on and off the Shakespearean stage: a concept in flux
- Virginia Woolf’s The Waves: A Fascist Microcosm of the British Empire
- How ghosts influence the female narrators of El sur and Casa de verano
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight arguably presents the hero as a portrayal of civilisation’s failure
- The portrayal of the female body in relation to the exercise of power in Paradise Lost
- The relationship between the individual and society in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Cronica de una muerte anunciada
- How transatlantic texts engage with various types of in-betweenness (with a focus on the national displacement of Edward Thomas and the spatial displacement of Robert Frost)