This page demonstrates my writing skills through blogs/case studies written for Quisitive, a magazine article written for Venice Magazine, blogs written for Alison South Marketing Group, and academic writing from my classes at Fordham University.

Event Blogs & Case Study – Quisitive

Top 5 Preventative Security Controls

“Explore five essential priorities for security teams to reduce risk and fortify their organization’s security posture.”

Top 5 Preventative Security Controls to Implement Today  | Quisitive

7 Ways to Elevate Your Contact Center

“Learn how to use Microsoft Teams to elevate your contact center by replacing expensive and legacy hardware and software.”

7 Ways to Elevate Your Contact Center with Microsoft Teams | Quisitive

Print Writing – Venice Magazine

Shake it Up!

We could all use a change of pace after the past few months. Anthony’s Clam House & Grill, a classic Italian restaurant, is here to set the tone with its take on margaritas. Although the cocktail is rumored to have roots in Southern California and Mexico, Anthony’s Clam House & Grill has reinvented the recipe with an Italian-style spin, concocting the Pallini Margarita. “A margarita is a simple drink, but if you make one bad move, you’ll mess it up,” says Hector Cordova, the restaurant’s general manager, who created the drink alongside bartender Jorgena Porja. Their twist on the conventional cocktail incorporates an Italian favorite: limoncello. Saluti!

Academic Writing – Fordham University

“Vinyl Records, Spotify, & The Evolution of the Listening Experience”

“Platforms divide human beings from their technologies and separate the desire for a task to be completed from the eventual completion of that task. Due to the evolution of music platforms — from record players, cassette tapes, and CDs to the various music streaming platforms of today — the user experience and accessibility of these music platforms has greatly improved over time. For example, listening to Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” on a record player in your home with your family would be an entirely different experience altogether than listening to it on Spotify with headphones in while walking down the street. Nevertheless, instead of just removing the old platforms to make way for the new, technologies today have opened doors to new music streaming while also creating modernized versions of record players from the past…” Read my full essay here

“Freedom as Escape from Reality & Descent into Insanity in The Bluest Eye”

“The process of finding oneself and overcoming nearly impossible obstacles, which I will refer to throughout this essay as finding or reaching “freedom,” is far from achieving a state at which a character is literally “free” from his or her problems. Instead, “freedom” in this case will refer to the coping mechanisms and objects that the characters use to try to endure their hardships, but that most often end up as the last straw as these characters descend into a state of insanity, unable to overcome whatever they are trying to get through…” Read my full essay here

“The Perfect Playlist Captures a Feeling”

“The playlist that I created for this project is entitled “November” and features a photo of the sun shining through the yellow leaves. The songs in this playlist mostly feature peaceful guitar sounds and melancholy lyrics, all written about pain, loss, and unhappiness. Because November is often a cold and grey month here in New York, I put these songs together to capture the feelings that this weather produces for me (as well as many others) of walking outside in the cold or not wanting to leave the house to enter the grey outdoors. I even took the cover image a week ago in the Botanical Gardens, as I braved the cold weather to enjoy the changing leaves and listen to some of these songs. Spotify is definitely a platform that revolves around shared experiences; each playlist, no matter who the creator is, captures a small piece of the human existence, which is often something that a multitude of people can relate to and find solace in knowing that other people have the same feelings and are listening to the same songs…” Read my full essay here

Blog Writing – Alison South Marketing Group