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Professional Communication

This section highlights my most "excellent and pitch-perfect" professional email correspondence, as my former internship supervisor praised. I communicated with national, state, and University-level entities to promote the work of the Appalachian Prison Book Project. My communications with Mary Gould, Director of the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison, and Beth Staley, WVU English Professor, involved a request on my behalf, requiring that I use assertive communication to convey my message directly and respectfully. Nonprofit work, in particular, values concise correspondence because activists are typically operating on a time constraint: balancing their full-time jobs and their activism work.

Mary Gould

National-Level Communication

Client

Mary Gould

Company

Alliance for Higher Education in Prison 

Year

2021

Location

Denver, CO, USA

Project

Mary Gould is the Director of the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison. I first emailed Mary regarding a copy request for Volume 1 of the JHEP. Inspired by some elective reading, I wanted to get copies of the journal into the hands of incarcerated scholars.

 

 

From there, Mary became a lifeline in my Accommodations research project. Dr. Ryan and I struggled to find literature that pertains specifically to prison settings. So, I reached out to Mary to see if the AHEP had any usable resources on hand. Sure enough, Mary responded with an entire bibliography of helpful reading on pedagogy and prison education.

Mary Gould Email #1
Mary Gould Email #2
Mary Gould Email #3
Beth Staley

University-Level Communication

Client

Beth Staley

Company

Sounder.fm,

West Virginia University

Year

2021

Location

Morgantown, WV, USA

Project

I am actively collaborating with Beth Staley, adjunct English Professor and the Director of Undergraduate Writing at WVU. She has a diverse background in the editing and publishing field, currently freelancing for a podcast platform. So, she will advise the audio hosting and editing portions of the upcoming APBP podcast interview of a formerly incarcerated scholar I am moderating.

Beth Staley Email #1
Beth Staley Email #2
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