Grace Chen
Vancouver BC | 778-891-8832 | [email protected] and [email protected]
Objective: To gain employment in a full-time journalism career and internships relevant to the field.
HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS/RELEVANT EXPERIENCES:
BOLTON ACADEMY OF SPOKEN ARTS (BASA) ADMINISTRATION WORK: Sept 2017-June-2019
- Previous experience with being professionally adept in organizational and administrative skills through work involving administrative intern work at The Bolton Academy of Spoken Arts (BASA) and utilizing customer service skills involving communication with a wide array of staff and families
- Co-Teaching students privately one-on-one
- Logging payments and student registration for events and classes at front desk
- Confident public speaker to group sizes of 50-100 people introducing recitals
Queen’s Journal Article Contributor: Sept 2022-2023 - Article contributor for the Queen’s Journal Lifestyle & Arts section
- Contributed articles every month to the Queen’s Journal student run newspaper
and promoted articles on personal socials - Writing, Editing, and social media promotion skills utilized to share stories and news for the student body
Kids Help Phone Crisis Text Line: March-August 2021
- Trained and worked as a crisis responder powered through Kids Help Phone
- Provided empathy, support, and communication for texters in crisis or who are seeking non- emergency mental health support
Sunset Towers Office Administrative Intern
May-July 2023
Worked as an administrative office intern at the social housing unit in downtown called Sunset Towers, performing office duties and assisting the Community Engagement sector.
• Playing games with the tenants, walking them to their outdoors activities at the beach, delivering rent review letters to the tenant’s doors
• QUEEN’S HERCAMPUS WRITER+EDITOR: Sept 2021-April 2022
- Writing abilities and familiarity with the use of social media in promoting stories, articles, and building a big fan base and audience on Queen’s HerCampus
- Demonstrated interest in marketing practices, social media business usage, and learning how to effectively exceed target goals for sales
- Proficiency and familiarity in using MS Word, MS Excel and familiarity with social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook
Queen’s University Orientation Week leader: Sept 2020 and Sept 2021
• Orientation Leader two times in 2020 and 2021, for the incoming class of 2024 and 2025: A“Gael”, the name for orientation week leader for the Arts&Science Faculty at Queen’s University and a “Teach” for the Concurrent Education faculty. 
• Provided support for new students during their transition to Queen’s with my co-leaders. This was a seven-month long planning and training process, from March when I was initiated as a leader to September when activities commenced.
Q.U T.S Society (Queen’s University Taylor Swift Society): Sept-April 2022
• Alternate chairperson and social media marketing assistant as part of their QU T.S Society executive team leading, coordinating, and announcing events to club members on our instagram page @quswifties and group chat
• Successful club with quickly sold out dinner events, movie nights, skating times, and T- shirt making nights. Later, Taylor Swifts herself, through her marketing and management team “Taylor Nation” sent our society “Class of 2022” merchandise with a signed note as a thank you for efforts to celebrate her work and bring Queen’s students together. This gift signified for us a success for our marketing and planning efforts, vital to this intern role
• Gained social marketing experience through posting about events, making graphics, answering direct messages from student inquiries, and promoting mansion nights and club bonding events on the stories
Interests and hobbies:
• Journalism and in particular breaking news, lifestyle, culture, and entertainment journalism (with the goals of one day pursuing a career in that field first working locally and build my way up to high-caliber companies like the New York Times), administrative work marketing, event planning, public relations, communications , psychology, camping, tutoring, writing, travelling, photography, competitive cheerleading, blogging, listening to motivational podcasts on Spotify from journalistic sources
Education Qualifications:
• Queen’s University, Kingston Ontario
• Bachelor of Arts (General)/ English Language & Literature 2019-2023
BCIT Journalism Fall 2023 (future and present):
- Currently a full time student at BCIT Online and Broadcast Journalism Program in September 2023 with a projected career path in journalism.
- In this program will take courses relevant to communications, New Reporting , get exposure to media and entertainment reporting industry, and work internships as part of the program such as at CTV, Daily Hive, etc
- Classes being taken during the 2023-2024 school year: Intro to News Writing, On- Air Performance, Visual Fundamentals, News Reporting, Radio, Video Editing, Web Design, Video Journalism, all done by 2:30 Monday-Friday Term A/3:30 Monday-Friday Term B
Skills:
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Audition
Adobe Photoshop
