About Daria

Audience Engagement Associate at the Committee to Protect Journalists

New York, NY

7/22 - Present

• Write and distribute CPJ’s weekly newsletter, and tripled its subscriber list in under a year. ​

• Responsible for all day-to-day social media execution and outreach on CPJ’s global social channels, including packaging CPJ web content for social, including data, daily news, special reports, video, and audio.

• Develop consistent branding on digital and print products, including with partner organizations.

• Oversee CPJ’s regional social media accounts and email blasts, and provide digital assistance to program teams.

• Monitor and respond to mentions, conversations, and queries about CPJ online and via email.

• Track CPJ's website, social media, and email analytics; and help develop and implement CPJ’s digital strategy.

• In March 2023, launched a click-to-tweet campaign on Twitter for imprisoned journalist Evan Gershkovich, which reached over 500k users.

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Creative Coordinator at the International Free Expression Project

Remote - Pittsburgh, PA

3/21 - 7/22

• Handled logistics for public events, manage the website, social media, blog and a team of creators.

• Developed and execute new initatives for the nonprofit, represent the organization at events and serve as an advisor and decision-maker second to the founder/CEO.

• In May 2021, I designed the physical exhibit “Faces of Free Expression.”

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Internship at PEN America, Writers At Risk Project

Remote - New York, NY

9/21 - 7/22

• Tracked developing free-expression stories and keep case research on the website and in the extensive “Writers at Risk” database updated.

• Operating within often quick timelines, wrote press releases, social media copy and key messages for presentations. In major reports written by the team, supplemented research, drafted sections, corrected citations and fact-checked.

• Other team priorities as needed.

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Internship at Rock the Vote

Remote - Washington, D.C.

9/20 - 4/21

• Maintained outward-facing communications; creating video, graphic, and textual social media content; collected, coordinated 2021 local election information across several spreadsheets.

• In 2020, I compiled political endorsements for a tool used by over 85,000 voters.

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Contributing Reporter at U.S. Press Freedom Tracker

Remote - New York, NY

9/20 - 12/20

• Researched, conducted interviews, and wrote several cases a week in this catalogue of press freedom violations in the U.S. and particularly alongside the George Floyd protests and November election protests.​

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Podcast Production Assistant at R&R Labs

Remote - New York, NY

9/20 - 12/20

• Supported the production team with guest outreach and interview scheduling and writing research briefs on future guests.

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Head of Social Media, Hermiona Education

Remote

9/19 - 2/20

• Ran multiple advertising campaigns; scheduled, executed, delegated updates on Facebook, Instagram, website through Wix; created social media graphic designs.

 

Educational Consultant at Hermiona Education

Remote

9/19 - 2/20

• Designed and executed lesson plans with 10- to 17-year- olds on standardized tests including the SAT and SSAT.

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Assistant Instructor at Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri

8/19 - 12/19

• I was a Teacher's Assistant (also called an Assistant Instructor) for the course Quantitative Political Methodology. In this course, required for the Political Science major at my university, students learn to use R to analyze large datasets, focusing on the American Panel Survey (TAPS) dataset. In this position, I hosted a weekly two-hour study hall and graded exams and problem sets.

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Journalism Intern at The Borgen Project

Remote - Seattle, WA

7/19 - 9/19

• Published 10 online articles, fundraised over $700, called my representatives in Congress weekly in support of global poverty alleviation legislation.

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Internship at Transparency International, Moscow

2/19-5/19

Moscow, Russia

• I covered sextortion in the NGO's international newsletter, researching and writing several articles in Russian.

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Research Assistantships at Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

9/17 - 1/19

• Digital Humanities Research Assistantship (9/17 - 1/18): I read, indexed, and analyzed 18th century French handwritten masonic ritual texts.

• Political Science Research Assistantship (1/18 - 1/19): I complied an Excel dataset of top US mayors' demography, social media, and electoral success.