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Rachel Lang Consulting

Rachel Lang is a prominent Southern California astrologer. I edit her monthly horoscope column and previously worked as Rachel’s Social Media Coordinator.

By Proxy

By Proxy is a copywriting firm specializing in SEO blogs for personal injury law firms across the Southwestern United States. I worked as a freelance copywriter for them for six months, creating weekly 600-700 word blogs which were optimized to improve the discoverability of the law firms.

DIG

DIG is a feminist history podcast focused on European and American history centered around globalization, civil rights, and sexuality. I worked with them as a Social Media Coordinator since January 2024, specializing in copy for their Instagram posts. Their following has risen by 40% since I was brought on board.

Research

Relevant skills: Qualitative Data Interpretation, Survey Design, Focus Group Design, Experiment Design, Interviewing, Transcription, Primary Source, Research, Literature Review Compilation

Oberlin College Sociology Honors Thesis

My undergraduate thesis examines the role that hookup culture played in forging social and, often, professional, connections before the Covid-19 pandemic. Notably, my research focused on the concepts laid out in Jennifer S. Hirsch & Shamus Khan’s Sexual Citizens (2020) and how these sexual encounters are translated into Social Capital. These include: sexual citizenship, or, the reciprocal agency one feels in an encounter; sexual geography, or, how the participants’ relationship to the physical space where the encounter occurs or is initiated alters one’s agency; and sexual projects, or, the sexual and or social goal one hopes to achieve via the encounter. As a secondary focus, my research explores how the loss of third places, spaces which are neither home nor work, in the Covid-19 pandemic will affect students’ reasons to participate in hookup culture, the ability to use casual sexual relationships to define their social circles, and the relationship between increased communication and enjoyment of these relationships. This thesis was awarded Highest Honors by the college and the research was featured in a series in the local newspaper, as well as on the WUNC podcast, Embodied.

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Featured on the Embodied Podcast: Hooked Up, The Myth of No Strings Attached (Released March 2022, Re-aired August 2023)

All Undergraduate Research

SOCI 301 Sociological Methods, Professor Parris, Fall 2020

  • Sociological Methods Final Project - Masculinity, Desirability, & Food Sensitivity

SOCI 281 Organizational Sociology, Professor Lee, Spring 2019

  • Final Project - Case Study on Sustainability & Social Viability of Imperfect Produce

ARTS 352, Coffee Houses and Tea Houses: A Global History, Professor Farshid Emami, Spring 2019

  • Final Project - A Matter of Taste: American Tea Culture, Anglophilia, and Xenophobia in the Gilded Age

The Skirball Cultural Center

In my role as the Museum Assistant at the Skirball Cultural Center in LA from Jan 2022-Oct 2023, I assisted the Chief Curator on a new Skirball originated section of a traveling exhibition on the Hollywood Blacklist and assisted the Associate Curator and Collections Specialist create an original exhibition on the subject of reclamation of Nazi looted art, 75 years after it was stolen from the Bloch family home in Brno, Czechoslovakia

Curatorial Assistant – Reclaimed: A Family Painting

  1.  Drafted exhibition wall text

  2. Translated primary source documentation from German to English

  3. Designed and conducted interview with the lenders for in gallery documentary

  4. Assembled exhibition checklist and packaged and transported objects to the Skirball

Curatorial Research for LA Extension – Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare

  1. Coordinated and conducted archival and secondary source research

  2. Helped create the exhibition’s audio guide script

  3. Facilitated relationships between the curator and lenders and drafted loan requests