CV
Career Progression
2019- Present
Content Creator:
Amplifies the impact of socially responsible and diverse businesses by producing compelling and memorable content. Including:
KidSnips
Pennsylvania Children's Advocacy (PennCAC)
Wright Foundation for the Realization of Human Potential
Keep It Savory Salt Co.
Nestidd
City Grange
Innovator:
Develops, manages, and facilitates transformative in-person and online writing workshops for women in Splitting the World Open and wordhaven. Creates poetry experiences for individuals with dementia in workshops called “Remembering Home.”
2013- Present
Founder:
POEMGROWN
poemgrown embraces the business of love and brings back the importance of honoring life’s occasions with a poem commissioned exclusively to stop time and mark the moment. “In a culture where ‘stuff’ comes and goes with very little thought and appreciation, it was a deeply gratifying process to work with cin and have her create something so personal and lasting,”— Rebecca Lewandowski
Awards & Recognition
INAUGURAL POET LAUREATE
Covenant Farm
Sawyer, MI
2016-2017
COMING UP TALLER AWARD
President's Committee on the Arts & Humanities (PCAH)
Chicago, IL
2008
Presented by Barbara Bush at the White House, as developer and manager of the award-winning “Words at Play” program – transitioned from a single workshop for the Chicago Humanities Festival and expanded to a 10-week series across ten Chicago parks districts with a $35K budget.
RAGDALE FELLOW
Ragdale Artist Residency
Lake Forest, IL
2000, 2001, 2002, 2008
2008
EMMY NOMINEE - VOICE OVER FOR PBS DOCUMENTARY
“From Schoolboy to Showgirl”
Los Angeles, CA
1989-1991
ILLINOIS ARTS COUNCIL GRANT RECIPIENT
Poetry
Chicago, IL
Book Publications
When I am Yes
Jack Leg Press, 2016
Looking for a Soft Place to Land
Tia Chucha Press, 1996
Education
Bachelor of Science (BS), Advertising
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Early Career Experience
WTTW
On-Air Correspondent for “Art Beat”
Chicago, IL
2000-2002
ARC WORLDWIDE
Part-time Professional (United, Purina, Bed, Bath, & Beyond)
Chicago, IL
1996-2001 & 2006-2008
FRANKEL
Part-time Professional (Target, USPS)
Chicago, IL
1994-1996
LEO BURNETT
Part-time Professional (Hallmark, Disney, Virginia Slims)
Chicago, IL
1991-1994
MARSHALL FIELD'S
Freelance Writer
Chicago, IL
1989-1991
SPIEGEL CATALOG
Copywriter · 1987 to 1989
Copywriter Trainee · 1986 to 1987
Chicago, IL
1986-1989