About me

What I’ve done and where I’ve been.

 
 
 
 
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I’m Jonelle (she/her): a writer, reader, editor, and enthusiast of published things.

Content design résumé

 
 
 
 

Career highlights

Content design & strategy

  • Currently: Principal content designer at AT&T Design Technology

  • Senior and then lead content strategist at AT&T Design Technology

  • Content strategist at Charles Schwab’s C2 agency

  • Community strategist at Personify for clients including the American Heart Association, Climate Reality Project, Environmental Defense Fund, and United Nations Girl Up Foundation

Arts journalism

  • Dance (and performance and occasionally books) critic at the Austin Chronicle and other publications

  • Book chapter “Movement on Record: Poetry, Presence, Radicalism” in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Dance and Philosophy

Higher ed

  • Graduate writing center manager at St. Edward’s University

  • Writing tutor at Emerson College and Smarthinking

Editing

  • Textbook editor for clients including Scholastic and Macmillan McGraw-Hill

  • Copy editor of nonfiction books for clients including Temple and Stanford University Presses

Past lives

  • Ballet dancer—I don’t often sit still at my desk 🩰

  • Barista ☕️

 
 
 
 

Education

Recent training & learning

  • Button | 2023, 2024

  • Growing in Content (day 1) | 2024

  • Executive Workshop on Generative AI, argodesign | October 2023

  • Art of Activism Learning Lab, C4AA | March–April 2023 

  • Embodied Anti-Racist Practice Untensive, Practice Progress | July 2021

  • State of Black Design | 2021

  • Content + UX | 2021

Degrees

  • Master of arts in publishing and writing, Emerson College

  • Bachelor of arts in English and journalism, Metropolitan State University of Denver

 

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