Rachael Rosner

• Wrote personal essays and feature stories on social and (sub)cultural phenomena
• Reported on and/or reviewed books, films, visual art exhibitions, theater, dance, music and TV series
• Interviewed high-profile artists, performers and writers, and underground local heroes including:
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-Amy Sedaris

- Jerry Stahl

- D Watkins

- Lisa Carver

- Mr. Butch

- Samantha Irby

- Elizabeth Streb

- Laura Albert (aka JT LeRoy)

- The Reverend Larry Love

• Collaborated with editors to refine article content, ensuring clarity and accuracy while adhering to strict deadlines. Publications included:

- Another Gaze Magazine

- digBoston (formerly The Weekly Dig)

- The Boston Phoenix

- Autostraddle

- Creative Nonfiction Magazine

- Hippocampus Magazine

- Frieze Magazine

- Substack

- Flatfield Reccords

- What's Up Magazine

• Coordinated with photographers, videographers and graphic designers to supplement stories with multimedia content, and incorporated my own photography and graphic design when permitted
• Built a loyal readership following through consistent production of thought-provoking content on personal blog or website.

note: often wrote under pseudonyms Dia Dax and Rachael Marks

• Promoted business via social media to generate leads and maximize brand identity.
• Secured funding for business expansion projects through persuasive presentations to investors or lenders.
• Managed purchasing, sales, marketing and customer account operations efficiently.
• Negotiated price and service with customers and vendors to decrease expenses and increase profit.
• Enhanced product descriptions with well-researched content and visually appealing photos, capturing buyer attention and improving conversion rates.
• Negotiated favorable purchasing terms with suppliers, reducing overall costs and increasing profit margins on resold merchandise.
• Established positive relationships with clients through exceptional customer service skills, leading to repeat business and referrals.
• Maintained organized storage facilities for physical inventory items, ensuring easy access for quick order fulfillment while minimizing damages or loss of goods.
• Continuously expanded product knowledge through research and training opportunities, ensuring the ability to provide expert advice on a diverse range of items offered for sale.
• Developed effective marketing strategies for promoting products on various social media platforms, driving brand awareness and attracting new customers.
• Processed and tracked orders and shipments to verify accurate and on-time delivery of products.
• Established relationships with suppliers to increase online product offerings.
• Managed product returns and exchanges to maintain customer satisfactions and minimize losses.
• Uploaded digital media to online storefront, auction sites or other shopping Web sites for advertising purposes.
• Created promotional campaigns to boost sales and drive customer loyalty.

• Boosted student engagement through the development of interactive and creative lesson plans tailored to individual learning styles.
• Incorporated critical thinking exercises into daily lessons, challenging students to analyze complex texts from various perspectives.
• Designed assessments that measured student progress effectively, enabling data-driven adjustments to instructional strategies.
• Promoted active listening skills through structured debate activities centered around literary themes and topics relevant to course material.
• Served as a mentor for struggling students, providing guidance and support that fostered academic growth and personal development.
• Provided personalized instruction to students experiencing difficulty in English and Language Arts, resulting in marked improvement in their skills and confidence.
• Enhanced student comprehension by utilizing diverse teaching methods and incorporating real-life examples into lessons.
• Empowered students to take ownership of their learning by assigning self-directed projects that required independent research, analysis, and presentation skills.
• Organized extracurricular activities including literature clubs and poetry readings, fostering a love of reading and writing among students outside the classroom setting.
• Improved students' written and verbal English skills through personalized learning programs.
• Tutored students to develop deeper comprehension of English course materials and better understanding of assignments to improve academic success.

• Picked up choreography moves easily and immediately incorporated changes in choreography or new moves by staying flexible.
• Developed strong relationships with fellow performers and production staff to foster a positive working environment.
• Participated in regular rehearsals, refining movements and synchronizing with fellow dancers for seamless performances.
• Performed in a variety of settings such as theaters, music videos, festivals and special events.
• Demonstrated impressive flexibility, speed and agility when performing on stage.
• Assisted in teaching workshops and master classes

Salvage LTD was an unusual brick & mortar that influenced my own online business . Primarily due to its eclecticism paired with iits thoughtful, sophisticated and harmonious aesthetic. Much of the inventory was rare, valuable mid-century modern furniture. not contemporary, mid-century modern style furniture, but the real deal, original, distinctive pieces, many of which were designed by big names: Haywood Wakefield, Isamu Noguchi, Vladimir Kagan, Eero Saarinen. We sold tables that looked like elegant UFO's, chairs lamps that looked like miniature planets and glass-encased mushroom clods. I was an avid collector of books and records and passionate about art, but had never given any thought to furniture, much less conceived of it as a potential art form. Walking through the Sore changed this, quickly.

But in addition to selling the mid-century modern furniture pieces, we sold actual art: paintings, photographic prints, Africa and Oceanic masks and sculptures, turntables (yes!) and even film props.

We also sold vintage bicycles, cameras, and a small but promising selection of LPs books, and vintage apparel, which I'm proud to say I expanded , and, in doing so, had a small but significant hand in expanding and diversifying out customer base. Duties and contributions included:

• Greeted guests and answered questions about merchandise.
• Processed transactions efficiently using point-of-sale systems, ensuring accurate pricing and payment collection.
• Supported marketing efforts through organizing special events such as auctions, workshops, or themed sales days.
• Assisted in the acquisition of merchandise, via flea markets, estate sales, garage sales, antique fairs, and individual consigneers.
• Recruited two independent contractors socially, one of whom repaired and restored high-end antiques by trade, and the other of whom did the same with vintage bicycles. Acted as a liaison between them and the store owner, passing along quotes, invoices, and paychecks, and scheduling and overseeing pickups, drop offs and on-site repairs.
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Curated eclectic but unexpectedly concorant playlists as both a club and radio DJ, also doing spots at art exhibits, parties, and other special events.

RADIO:

Arctic Hysteria, WZBC (Newton, MA)

Lost and Found, WMBR (Cambridge, MA)

CLUBS:

The Enormous Room (Cambridge, MA)

River Gods (Cambridge, MA)

Art Venues

Redtail Collective (Boston, MA)

Pan 9 (Allston, MA)

The Oni Gallery (Boson, MA)

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• beat-matched, sampled and created live and pre-recorded mashups (eg, Eric B & Rakim's "I Ain't No Joke" w./ Judy Garland ad-libbing on "Judy Garland Speaks, Jeru the Damaja's "El Presidente" w./ Afro-Cuban instrumental (artist unknown), and dancehall diva Fresh Rose's "Place a Run Red" w./ Howlin' Wolf's "Do the Do")
• Managed sound equipment setup and breakdown, ensuring optimal audio quality for each performance venue.
• Implemented effective time management strategies allowing proper preparation prior to each performance.
• Told stories, both verbally and through set lists
• Received positive feedback from clients leading to referrals increasing overall booking opportunities.
• Played songs fitting station's format and monitored each song's length to avoid dead air.

• Co-instructed a weekly visual arts class, assigning and overseeing structured and independent drawing and painting, and assemblage/collage activities
• Instructed a weekly creative nonfiction class (or "memoir," but we branched out)
• Provided one-on-one and group support and assistance in brain-storming and circumnavigating both personal obstacles and restrictive policies
• Facilitated group workshopping sessions
• Facilitated group discussions to explore
• organizing group showings and readings

• Purchased used,/rare and remaindered books from individual collectors and wholesale/remaindered book distributors, such as Taschen and Daedalus Books.
• Also regularly purchased wholesale CDs, from a small but brilliantly eclectic, soul jazz records inspired distributor, and routinely ordered blank cards, calendars, journals, and several offbeat magazines, including Found Magazine.
• Researched , appraised and priced incoming titles for ins-store sale
• Posted rare and valuable titles on the store website, and online book selling platforms such as ABEbooks.
• Performed repairs and conservation techniques on valuable titles with moderate damage
• Interviewed , hired, and trained new employees; provided supervision and oversaw store operations in the General Manager's absence
• Sorted , shelved, and organized sour myriad sections and sub-sections
• Created Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets for major orders
• Developed strong working relationships with staff, fostering a positive work environment.
• Monitored cash intake and deposit records, closed out the registers at night and balanced the books. Made bank deposits.
• Entered titles with multiple copies into Filemaker Pro database. Made trips to our warehouse i to assist with boxing up, and transporting inventory for restocking, when applicable.
• Fulfilled and shipped online orders, and generated labels using Enducua software.
• Oversaw visual merchandising. My displays sold a lot of books and sold them fast, and so this became part of my job. Although I don't think anyone called itit "cisual merchandising."

• Assisted customers by answering questions and fulfilling requests.
• Replenished sales floor merchandise and organized shelves, racks, and bins for optimal appearance.
• Assisted in maintaining a welcoming store atmosphere by keeping common areas clean, well-lit, and inviting for customers.
• Assisted customer by locating items, processing payments, and carrying out heavy purchases.
• Provided backroom support by organizing incoming shipments, tagging merchandise correctly, and restocking shelves as needed.
• Enhanced customer satisfaction by providing efficient and knowledgeable assistance in product selection and locating items.
• Removed scratches from CDs using heavy-duty resurfacing machine note: again, unsure of the specific model but was essentially the same as the machine at Flipude Records, reminiscent of a bench grinder
• Sorted, processed and organized incoming 45s which were arguably In Your Ear's hottest items. At the location in Boston in Commonwealth avenue, rare and valuable soul and funk 45s were plentiful, to say the least. Many of our customers were DJs, or aspired to be. For those who don't come in with the then-ubiquitous Vestax portable turntables and headphones, I was often tasked with assisting the greener DJs in their quests for sample-able tracks.
• The plus side was that this allowed me to make creative contributions and assist in brainstorming. But playing track after track in the store sound system wasn't viable, and so the owner set up a second listening station with headphones at the front counter so that we could assist and supervise without annoying other customers ir neglecting other duties.

• Assisted customers by answering questions and fulfilling requests.
• Replenished sales floor merchandise and organized shelves, racks, and bins for optimal appearance.
• Enhanced customer satisfaction by providing efficient and knowledgeable assistance in product selection and locating items.
• Handled cash register operations accurately, processing transactions quickly while ensuring security measures were followed.
• Cleaned LPs using a VP-industries H-16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
• Revived scratches from CDs using a heavy-duty disc resurfacing machine (not sure of the brand