Anne-Marie McReynolds

Anne-Marie McReynolds

Project Manager at League of Women Voters

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
Past
  • Member at San Jose Newspaper Guild/CWA Local 39098
  • Multimedia Producer at KTLA-TV
  • Staff Photojournalist & Picture Editor at San Jose Mercury News
  • Project Manager at KIPP Heartwood Academy
Education
  • Stanford University
Connections
188 connections
Industry
Non-Profit Organization Management
Websites

Anne-Marie McReynolds’s Summary

Digital storyteller directing youth-centered, social change-oriented media projects. Former photojournalist at the San Jose Mercury News for five years and later pursued citizen journalism through syndicated blog distributed via LexisNexis services.

Anne-Marie McReynolds’s Specialties:

Adobe Creative Suite 3 (Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop), Final Cut Pro Studio 6 (SoundTrack Pro, Compressor), HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL. Able to master new systems with ease.


Anne-Marie McReynolds’s Experience

  • Project Manager

    League of Women Voters

    (Non-Profit; Political Organization industry)

    August 2008Present (1 year)

    • Directed a digital storytelling project that encouraged civic participation among 75 at-risk youth.

    • Secured 60 percent of $35,000 operating budget.

    • Crafted in-school curriculum on video production. Produced student films for video sharing sites and Community Access Cable TV.

    • Built strategic relationships with California Partnership Academies. The academy model is a three-year program, grades 10-12, structured as a school-within-a-school. Academies incorporate integrated academic and career technical education, business partnerships, mentoring, and internships.

  • Member

    San Jose Newspaper Guild/CWA Local 39098

    (Online Media industry)

    20022007 (5 years)

  • Multimedia Producer

    KTLA-TV

    (Broadcast Media industry)

    March 2007May 2007 (3 months)

    • Produced daily traffic logs for KTLA-TV, a Tribune Broadcasting station, and maintained programming data for Sales and Promotion Departments.

    • Analyzed outbound marketing campaign performance to identify, prioritize and execute on opportunities for improvement in marketing effectiveness.

    • Provided expert advice in the areas of collaborative journalism, online community building and social media optimization for KTLA.com.

    • Developed press releases, articles, case studies, product launch plans, and timelines.

  • Staff Photojournalist & Picture Editor

    San Jose Mercury News

    (Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

    20022007 (5 years)

    SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS (circ: 240,000)

    • Reported on stories and produced audio, video and photo content for the newspaper and its website.

    • Edited use of photography for international, national, and local news in the paper's front section.

    • Shared 2005 Executive Editor’s Award for Hurricane Katrina coverage including on-the-ground reporting; embedded with the California National Guard.

    • Photography instructor and 1994 graduate: Mosaic, a Mercury News workshop at San Jose State University for minority high school students.

  • Project Manager

    KIPP Heartwood Academy

    (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    20042006 (2 years)

    * Launched a Literacy Through Photography Program for ESL fifth and sixth grade students at KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) Heartwood Academy (a charter school) incorporating youth development model.

    * Fund-raised for program operation including online community, public exhibition and live auction. Secured camera donations from Kodak plus $20,000 in donations and $2,500 in grants.

    * Solicited voluntary involvement of professional journalists from San Francisco Bay Area media organizations. Five college interns instructed 100 students while 20 professionals served as mentors.


Anne-Marie McReynolds’s Education

  • Stanford University

    BA, AB , Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (Honors) and Studio Art & Art History , 19952000

    • Won the Louis Sudler Prize in the Humanities and Creative Arts (2000)


Additional Information

Anne-Marie McReynolds’s Websites:

Anne-Marie McReynolds’s Honors:

• Inbound Marketing Certified Professional by HubSpot; advanced certification in blogging, social media, lead conversion, lead nurturing and closed-loop analysis. 

• Digital Media Academy Certification in Video Production through Stanford University Continuing Studies.

• Placed second in 2006 Pictures of the Year International (POYi) competition in newspaper editing division for multiple page feature story.

• Awarded second team prize for “Best Use, Interactive Publication/Media” and shared Honorable Mention in “Picture Editor of the Year” category in 2005 National Press Photographers’ Best of Photojournalism contest.

• Named a Visual Journalism Fellow by The Poynter Institute for Media Studies and a Visual Task Force Fellow by the National Association of Black Journalists.

• Work featured in "LIFE: Year in Pictures," 2001.


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