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2017 · Grassroots Marketing

University of Portland

First formal marketing role. A social presence and brand identity built from nothing.

what I did

the story

This is where the pattern started. There was no marketing function, so I built one: a content calendar, brand guidelines, a logo, and the program's first video content. I ran awareness polling, planned events like Dia de los Muertos and the Diversity Dialogues, and grew partnerships beyond campus.

The numbers were small because the school was small, but moving awareness from almost nothing to roughly a third of students taught me how far structure and consistency go when nothing is there yet.

outcome

Awareness from under 1% to about 32%.