Social Media Manager

Katia Kalei Barricklow

Filmmaker, Writer, Photographer

New York, New York 215-***-**** adfwxu@r.postjobfree.com

Education

Rising Junior, Sarah Lawrence College GPA: 4.0

Concentration: Filmmaking, Spanish, French

Awarded Helen Brinkley Bainbridge Scholarship, provides merit aid for superior academic performance and an extracurricular record that demonstrates a genuine concern for the welfare of others

Recipient of the 2019 Raymond Seidelman Award for Political Advocacy, an award given to a SLC student who has done the most to further the broad aims of economic and social justice and equality.

Film Experience

Documentary Film Student, Fall 2018 – Present

Directed, wrote and produced an original short documentary, “Longing for Hawai‘i” at SLC

Selected to be featured in the 2020 Hawai’i International Film Festival

My film is an origin story about what it means to be a native Hawaiian living on the U.S. mainland. This documentary celebrates family, native Hawaiian traditions and my ‘ohana’s unique role in Hawaiian history in the face of colonial erasure.

Other film courses completed: The Art of Editing: Aesthetic and Practice & Post Production (2019-2020)

Documentary Film Intern, Fair Share Housing Development (FSHD), Summer 2019 – present

Directed, wrote and produced a 20-minute documentary, called “Ethel Lawrence: The Rosa Parks of Affordable Housing” for FSHD. This film tells the story of Ethel Lawrence, the lead plaintiff in the Mount Laurel Doctrine, which is widely considered the most important civil rights decision since Brown v. Board of Education.

A trailer of my Ethel documentary aired February 8, 2020 on News12 NJ show “Spotlight NJ”

Created multiple promotional videos for FSHD, which raised over $7,000 in donations

Video Creator and Virtual Instructor, TechGirlz, Summer 2020-present

Taught a virtual camp about photography, photo editing, marketing and video production to middle schoolers. The photography/editing and marketing portion of the camp is a curriculum that I wrote for TechGirlz, a Philadelphia nonprofit which empowers women in technology, in 2018.

In the process of editing and producing promotional videos

Media Work

Social Media Manager & Marketing Intern, Fall 2018 – Spring 2020 (paid internship)

Carolyn Bender Events, Bronxville, NY

Designed lifestyle website/blog CMeBelieveMe for Carolyn Bender, a top NYC-area event planner

Wrote and managed all online content and social media accounts. Took professional photographs and produced short videos. Carolyn’s Instagram account reached nearly 1900 followers.

Journalist, September 2015 – June 2018

The Bucks County Courier Times, The Intelligencer of Doylestown, PA, and The Burlington County Times of Southern New Jersey

Won a spot on Reality, an award-winning news section written by an elite panel of high school journalists and published in three metro Philadelphia daily newspapers with a combined print circulation of 90,000.

Wrote cover stories, feature articles and opinion pieces on a range of issues including free speech, racism, feminism, Islamophobia, affirmative action, ethics in politics, Hawaiian history and native rights.

A piece I wrote about a native Hawaiian ancestor led to a news spot on Hawaii News Now.

Student Intern, June 2015 – November 2016

Office of Pennsylvania State Representative Steve Santarsiero (Bucks County), Yardley, PA

Provided research on legislative issues, writing assistance on community newsletter and performed office duties

Leadership & Advocacy

Teen Advisory Board, TechGirlz, August 2016 – June 2018

Appointed to a leadership team of high school girls from the Philadelphia metro region who support the mission of TechGirlz, a nonprofit that aims to empower girls to become tomorrow’s technology leaders

Photography Awards

National Gold Key, 2017 (as well as recognition from Photographer’s Forum) for “Distant Fog.”

This Silver Medal photograph was featured in the 2018 Winter show at A*Space Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College.

Scholastic Gold Key, 2018 for my portrait, “Shadows,”

Won four Silver Keys, 2017 for portraits and Received 14 Honorable Mention certificates

National Finalist, 2015-2017, Photographer’s Forum, Best of College and High School Photography contest

Writing Awards

National Award for Journalism from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

Formal recognition for my writing and photography medals from U.S. Senator Bob Casey and Pennsylvania State House Representative Perry Warren.

American Voices Nominee and 2017 national Silver Medal for “Moving Beyond the Selfie: Finding ‘Flow’ With Photography”

Scholastic Gold Key, 2016

Seven Silver Key awards (2017-2018) for creative writing and journalism; won five Honorable Mentions for a writing portfolio in 2018.

Skills

Film: Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, Da Vinci Resolve, Adobe Spark On-set experience with DSLR cameras and sound equipment

Website design: Wix, Wordpress

Graphic Design & Photo Editing: Canva, Adobe Photoshop, Pixlr

Languages: French (nearly fluent), Spanish (intermediate)

Literary and Political Publications

Sarah Lawrence Political Review, Fall 2019, “Dismantling the Colonial Gaze: Photography as a Means of Empowerment in Africa”

The Revisionist, November 2019, “Hidden History, Lost Heroes, and the Forgotten Hawaiian Kingdom”

Sarah Lawrence Review (2019), Dark Phrases (2019), creative nonfiction & poetry

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