Emma Johnson Résumé

DEGREES
Bachelor of Arts, University of Minnesota
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design

EDUCATION

Delta College, 2012-2015
• Subjects studied: French, math, piano, biology, physics, inorganic & organic chemistry
• Delta College Honors Program

University of Minnesota, B.A. in English (emphasis in poetry), 2006-2008
• Subjects studied: English, writing, German, film studies

• Fluent in German, as per Language Proficiency Exam, 1/16/09

• Writer/Researcher, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, 2007

• Copy Desk Editor, The Minnesota Daily, 2006-07
• Radio K Volunteer, 2006-07

Rutgers University, National Student Exchange, 2007-08

• Subjects studied: English, German, web authoring, interactive design
• Tutor, Plangere Writing Center, 2007

Minneapolis College of Art and Design

B.F.A. in painting and photography, 2000-2005 

• Subjects studied: Fine art, media arts, graphic design, art history

• Learning Center Tutor, 2003-05
• Radio MCAD Volunteer, 2003-05

Macalester College
Macalester Exchange Program (MCAD sister school), 2003
• Subjects studied: Philosophy

Parsons Paris School of Art and Design
Study Abroad, Fall 2002
• Subjects studied: Fine art, French

Michigan Technological University
MiCUP/MI-LSAMP, 2015
Post-secondary option, 1999-2000
• Subjects studied: Statistics; art, writing, psychology, economics

SCHOLARSHIPS

• Grow with Google Developer Scholarship, 2018

• Grow with Google Challenge Scholarship, 2018
• Scott Kennedy Memorial Scholarship, 2017
• Coca-Cola Scholarship, 2015-16
• Zonta Club of Midland Scholarship, 2014-15 
• Arthur J. and Bette L. Fisher Scholarship, 2014-15
• M. Seth Babcock Scholarship, 2013-14 
• Cari-DeWall Obst Uptown Association Scholarship, 2002-04

WRITING
Writer (freelance),  SOLV Marketing Agency, Midland, MI, 2018-Present 
•    Write blogs.

 Writer (freelance),  SOLŪTIŌ Web Marketing & Design, Midland, MI, 2017-Present 
•    Write blogs and web copy. [137 projects]

Writer (freelance), Midland Daily News (Hearst Corporation), Midland, MI, 2009—Present
•    Write stories and features for print and web publication on arts and entertainment, lifestyle, culture, politics and local events. Recently started writing book reviews and a column about my extended trip to Shanghai, with corresponding photography. Currently working on Palestine/Israel op-ed column. Print circulation 16,500+ daily and 18,000+ Sunday. [231 articles, including 85 front page]

Writer (Freelance), Great Lakes Bay Regional Lifestyle Magazine, Bay City, MI, 2010-Present
•     Wrote a profile piece for the March 2011 education issue. Wrote five scene descriptions for the November 2011 issue in the magazine’s “People Pics” section. Upcoming advertorials.

Center Educator, Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art / Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI, 02/2009-Present
•    Research background information on science and art exhibitions. Design and lead tours for ages preschool through adult. Collaborated with colleague to create guide for “Art of the Brick” exhibit. Created 20-page talking points guide for “Out of this World: Extraordinary Costumes from Film and Television” exhibit. Other exhibits included: Rodin, Herman Miller, Mid-Century Modern, and Leonardo da Vinci. Facilitator for Spark!Lab Smithsonian.
 

WRIT Center Consultant, WRIT Center (Writing, Reading, and Information Technology), Delta College, 2013-15

•    Worked one-on-one with students to improve their writing and computer skills; provided online feedback to student papers; presented information about the WRIT Center in English classrooms at Delta.

Graphic Designer & Staff Writer, The Delta Collegiate, 2012-13
•    Honorable Mention, Column, Serious, Michigan Community College Press Association, “Investing in universal pre-school is a step in the right direction,” 2013 

  Proofer/Editor/Writer (freelance), ClearRiver Advertising & Marketing, Midland, MI, 2/10—8/10
•    Proofread and edited material for print and web; wrote profile cards, flyers, newspaper ads, press releases, brochures and testimonials for posters, flyers and websites. Clients included: Gerber/Nestlé, Gratiot Medical Center and MidMichigan Health* (which serves a population of 700,000). [162 projects.] *Currently University of Michigan Health System

Midland Symphony Orchestra plays “Smooth as Glass”

Midland Center for the Arts

Saturday, November 7, 2015, 7:30 p.m.

Symphony No. 4 “Heroes,” Philip Glass

Piano Concerto No. 3, Rachmaninoff

Natasha Paremski, piano

 

On Saturday evening, the Midland Symphony Orchestra performed at Midland Center for the Arts for their concert “Smooth as Glass.” I enjoyed the concert. I liked the variety, as the first piece was very different from the piece after intermission. It was a modern composition and then a classical piece.

Humane Society president brings book tour to Midland

By Emma Johnson, Midland Daily News. 10 Aug 2011. Online.

Author says Michigan example of how not to govern

By Emma Johnson
for the Midland Daily News
read it in issue:
21 Oct 2010: A3.

Author Dunya Mikhail tells of her life in Iraq

By Emma Johnson
for the Midland Daily News
10 Oct 2010: A7. Online. http://www.ourmidland.com/news/article_5b1114ad-841b-57af-a389-192047363e79.html

Sex and the City, The Book

Today I finished reading Candace Bushnell's book, Sex and the City. I loved the HBO series, so I wanted to check out the novel. The book was published in 1996, so when I read it I tried to remember what was going on and what the general atmosphere was at the time.

A couple years ago my Shakespeare professor told a story about a young, untenured professor. He was at a conference and was asked to give a short summary of his presentation for the next day so that others at the conference could decide which talks they wanted to attend. Since he was nervous, he misspoke and reversed the order saying his talk would be on how a contemporary writer (I forget which one) influenced Shakespeare. Other professors whose work he admired repeated back, "How interesting. I wouldn't have thought about things affecting each other in non-chronological order. But modern contemporary writers do shape how we read Shakespeare today." Now the young professor had to scramble to figure out how he was going to change his talk and what he was going to say!

Anyway, even though SATC wasn't influenced by other literature that has since been published, it was interesting to me how it was influenced by recent events. In the mid-nineties the stock market was rising and would hit 10,000, a few years later. Financial growth from the dotcoms and Clinton balancing the budget with a surplus. And now we have the greatest financial disaster since the Great Depression. Bankers in England are told to go to work in jeans so they don't look like bankers and—subsequently—get killed. The point is that as much as I love SATC, it was a strange feeling reading the book because every other character was described as an attractive thirty or fortysomething investment banker. Seriously, half of the characters were investment bankers! I wish I had read the book in 1996 so I could see what would have jumped out at me; perhaps the social rituals or the glamour of NYC would have been at the top of the list. Perhaps I would have wanted to live vicariously through the characters, pretending I too was wearing a pair of Manolo Blahniks. Even so, I'm sure I would have found the materialism egregious back then; but I think the unselfconscious references to jobs in finance have made the book into an artifact of a time before the recession. I suppose I could re-read it in another thirteen years and see what I think.