Chase Bell

• Delivered exceptional programming to the Hard to Read audience by always researching themes for shows, reaching out to guests (artists, filmmakers, curators, writers, and musicians) for interviews and program the show content thoroughly as it related to the moment we were in ( Quarantine, George Floyd / riots of Summer 2020, changing art and cultural landscape during covid-19, etc.)
• Managed content distribution to online channels and social media platforms for the shows I curated.
• Contacted authors for galleys of their books for Duncan and I to review and talk about on the show.
• Edited and sourced images, sound, and video content using Adobe Premiere and Audacity for visual aspects of events led on Zoom and later played on the 90 minute show slot on Montez Press Radio.

• Worked with creator / author / writer Fiona Allison Duncan with to organize ninety minute radio shows (using software Audacity and Adobe Audition) surrounding contemporary literary themes interviewing curators, artists, writers, and scholars in academia including various others.
• Researched and identified guests to have on the show, contacted guests through their publishing houses, management, personal emails, conducted and edited interviews (video and audio), hosted live events at MPR’s Chinatown location.
• Developed marketing copy across social media (twitter, instagram, etc.) and other promotional materials for the show.
• Assisted Duncan with writing grants, answering emails, organizing meetings with guests, and helping maintain the archive of radio shows on Soundcloud.

(https://hardtoread.us, https://instagram.com/hardtoread)

• Barback for Spring Gala and other small events.
• Helped with set up and tabling decorations, bar backed for three of the bars refilling ice, opening wine, clearing and bussing lounge areas around the bar, taking out the trash, coordinating with servers and restocking their tables drink supply.
• Assisting with event preparations, bar backing, and modeling wearable accessibility technologies for PS x ARIKA “I want to be with you everywhere” event.

• Worked the bar at the music gigs, wrote grants, organized meetings to plan events and meetings that focus on any conflict and concerns that people want to bring up about their time in the space, maintained the library collection getting donations from visitors.

• Helped with the installation of balloons, blowing up balloons, tying them together and configuring balloons into string lines of sculpture.

• Temporary fill in for cashier and stocking shifts at Dimes health foods market.
• Opened and closed shop, helped stock food items and tends to grocery store patrons, took stock of incoming orders from food distributors, operated the checkout as well.

• Helped manage calls and emails, aided the front desk person with filing and patient information, handled minor cleaning tasks of the patient waiting area and the bathroom.