Ci Phillips

• Edit webpages for GradPlan.org re-launch through WordPress. Maintain and update the website to ensure content is current, accurate, and ready for regional use.
• Ensure all website content is aligned with the organization's brand voice and identity. Create graphics, visual aids, and videos that support content readability.
• Gather content from regional leads and national teams to adapt and test strategies while implementing project management tools such as Asana, Slack, and G Suites.
• Manage a copywriting and resource page creation and approval process to maintain consistent quality and design.
• Provide copy and scheduling for newsletters and weekly social media posts for Instagram and Twitter.

• Lead the planning and execution of fashion events, including NYFW Parties >200 guests, internal meetings, brand collaborations, and programming.
• Develop comprehensive project plans, timelines, and budgets, ensuring all aspects of the event are organized and executed flawlessly.
• Coordinate logistics, such as venue selection, catering, transportation, and audiovisual requirements, to ensure seamless event operations. Supervise event staff and volunteers, providing direction and support to ensure successful event execution.
• Ideate and manage the artistic direction of fashion events and campaigns in collaboration with the head of marketing, including social media, branded marketing, and overall theme of parties.

• Assist the Director of Curatorial in daily museum and exhibition operations, recommending efficient processes and systems, relaying messages, and communicating status updates on current projects.
• Create and co-design promotional assets for events and exhibits for social media, email, and other communication methods.
• Supported planning, operations, and events of the 2023 Exhibition: Diaspora Stories: Selections from the CCH Pounder Collection.
• Exhibition and communication support, including writing artist bios, opening day logistics, and hosting talent.
• Actively engaged with all stakeholders during events by tracking attendance, supervising volunteer staff, and welcoming guests.

• Create and manage creative assets for HFR & Icon360, including social media graphics, ask letters, and presentation decks for brand clients and designers that secured partnerships of over $250,000 each in revenue.
• Supported successful execution of HFR programming and events, including the 2022 LVMH X HFR Fashion Show and Style Awards, providing speech editing, gift bag coordination, and event wrap-up presentations.
• Partner with Creative Director to ideate, brief, and present annual program proposals, marketing themes, panel discussions, and miscellaneous creative projects.
• Produced copy for HFR annual program descriptions, designer bios, marketing emails, retail website, and other editorial products.

Highlights:

• Conducted, transcribed, and edited company interviews for the 2022 LVMH x HFR Fashion Show & Style Awards, including CEO, Brandice Daniels, and all participating designers.
• Writer of Fashion in Color Book (2023)

• Design and improve the team's operation systems for optimal team efficiency and alignment, including weekly and monthly budget tracking, swag inventory, and emergency funding by leveraging programs such as G Suites, Expensify, and Salesforce.
• Leverage working group integration and collaborative structure to design, lead, implement, and report on seasonal minor pilots that serve major pilot goals of college persistence using design-thinking and innovative strategies.
• Manage hiring process of director and assistant-level role vacancies, alumni recruitment, and staff management. Trained 15 alumni as panelists for a series of Chicago Public School visits to mitigate summer melt and encourage growth mindset for over 200 students of color through the art of storytelling.