SARITA WALKER
Los Angeles,CA
Summary
Community Advocate with a passion and commitment towards justice, customer service, and problem solving. Skilled at building professional relationships with customers and business executives. Dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Program Facilitator/Chief Editor
Core Civic
12.2023 - Current
- Conducting various programs in a group setting of up to 15 inmates/residents assigned to residential programs.
- Conducting programs with group discussions, lecturing, demonstrating, and using audio and/or visual aids.
- Maintaining confidentiality of inmates/residents and administrative files.
- Evaluate progress of assigned inmates/residents and reviews status to verify that programs are completed.
- Implementing new programs such as interactive activities, job readiness, and computer technology.
- Promoting a positive learning environment by maintaining an organized and well-structured session space for all attendees.
- Spearheaded special articles such as new programs, success stories, awareness month, and events happening with Core Civics participants.
- Edited articles for clarity, accuracy, style consistency, grammar, punctuation, spelling errors ensuring error-free copy before publication.
- Collaborated with different departments to develop and implement visual elements while selecting and editing photos for use in Magazine.
Creative Content Writer/Author
Self Employed
04.2020 - Current
- Utilize exceptional writing, editing and proofreading skills to produce engaging and error-free content.
- Collaborate with team of writers and content marketing strategists to create copy promoting clients' SEO, sales and thought-leadership goals.
- Wrote and edited high-quality content and visually impactful programs under deadline pressure with exciting, captivating and authentic approach.
- Storyboard screenplays and scripts based on production ideas.
- Negotiated payments, schedules and billing with actors and agents.
- Self Published Novel "Charm City Part 1"
- Featured in Vancouver International Film Festival for written music video "High"
Staff Writer(Remote)
AmplifyAfrica.Org
01.2021 - 09.2022
- Wrote and edit high-quality content and visually impactful articles under deadline pressure with exciting, captivating and authentic approach.
- Applied current editing and photography tools to tell great stories.
- Organized collected information to produce 2+ well-written articles per week.
- Generated multiple daily new blog posts by monitoring industry news and cultivating sources.
- Helped shape narrative on key issues through effective storytelling and knowledge of public opinion.
- Strategized content based on Google Analytics data, geographical targeting and keyword planning.
Volunteer
Grassroots Law Care Service
03.2020 - 08.2020
- Assisted with special events or programs.
- Maintained clean, neat and operational facilities to serve program needs.
- Used strong interpersonal communication skills to convey information to others.
- Assisted with legal research on case law and conducted evidence examination and documentation.
- Oversaw appointment scheduling and itinerary coordination for clients.
- Focused on education and advocacy related to the criminal legal system and those impacted by police violence and mass incarceration.
- Helped during COVID 19 protocols when citizens needed additional services with Grassroots.
Merchandiser/Senior Copywriter
Walmart.com, E-commerce
06.2015 - 07.2016
- Promoted to Copywriter after 4 months as Item Setup Specialist.
- Created online content for company with revenue over 20 billion, ensuring retailers high standards were met.
- Created over 1000 web items for all holiday season categories.
- Created and Configured reports as well as trend analysis for vendors and operations team.
- Worked with Specialist team to analyze and interpret customer, partner, market and financial insights.
- Worked with Buyers to fill out forms and worksheets including confirmation of appointments for market schedules.
- Anticipated consumer buying patterns to create purchase and inventory plan.
- Tagged Samples and Maintained Sample room.
- Collaborated with customer outreach personnel to ascertain audience demographics, incorporating collected data into future copy.
Merchandiser/Assistant Online Program Manager
Partycity.com
05.2013 - 08.2015
- Started as Online Merchandiser and promoted to Assistant Online Program Manager creating team of two over Wedding and Baby products.
- Created over 100 web items and copy daily for product pages.
- Collaborated with Online Manager to create vast amount of web products around Seasonal Promotions.
- Oversaw multiple categories with onsite assortment strategy and visual merchandising.
- Communicated weekly business trends and forecast and ensured all categories were properly merchandised.
- Assisted with category presentation prep work.
- Helped identify trends for future assortments.
- Processed training documentation for new hire training.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Technology
University of Phoenix
No Degree - Mass Communications
San Jose State University
San Jose, CABachelor of Science - Digital Filmmaking
Los Angeles Film School - Hollywood
Hollywood, CA03.2025
Skills
- Research
- Networking skills
- Fact Checking
- Report Preparation
- Records Maintenance
- Health and Safety Regulations
- Corrective Actions
- Inmate Rights Knowledge
- System Recordkeeping
- Administrative Duties
- Recreational Activities
- Hiring and Recruitment Knowledge
- Generating Schedules
- Team Collaboration
- CPR Certified
- Proofreading
- Content Strategy
- Adobe Systems
- Creative Direction
- Copy Editing
Timeline
Program Facilitator/Chief Editor
Core Civic
12.2023 - Current
Staff Writer(Remote)
AmplifyAfrica.Org
01.2021 - 09.2022
Creative Content Writer/Author
Self Employed
04.2020 - Current
Volunteer
Grassroots Law Care Service
03.2020 - 08.2020
Merchandiser/Senior Copywriter
Walmart.com, E-commerce
06.2015 - 07.2016
Merchandiser/Assistant Online Program Manager
Partycity.com
05.2013 - 08.2015
Bachelor of Science - Technology
University of Phoenix
No Degree - Mass Communications
San Jose State University
Bachelor of Science - Digital Filmmaking
Los Angeles Film School - Hollywood
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