Kenyon Farrow

WORK HISTORY

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ABOUT KENYON FARROW

An internationally known/respected writer, editor and public speaker seeking a position with a digital media organization to use my skills and expertise to further their goals. I have spent the last seventeen years in media and communications including managing CRM and social media; book editing and publishing, writing scores of essays in books, online sites and magazines; and managing staff/consultant writers, designers, web/IT professionals. Recent accomplishments include: • Discovering a story lead, then assigning and editing a story that went viral and became national news Writing a widely circulated June 2017 critique of a CBS Sunday Morning segment on HIV, published one day after the segment aired (https://rewire.news/article/2017/06/05/cbs-sunday-morning-uses-aids-anniversary-blame-shame/• A rapidly expanding reach on social media, with (the maximum) Facebook friends, 4200 Twitter followers including several high-profile organizations, journalists and thought leaders including NAACP, Soledad O’Brien, Black Lives Matters founders, Former NAACP CEO Ben Jealous, MSNBC’s Ari Melber, Democracy NOW, Nation Magazine Editor-in-Chief Katrina vanden Heuvel, Rep. Barbara Lee. SEIU and the Womens’ March. • A sought-after thought leader, quoted recently in major national publications including USA Today, Money, TheBody.com, Slate, CityLab, POZ, The Nation, Esquire. • A proven track record of writing and editing on HIV and related issues, with expertise in culture, public policy and government, treatment and science, healthcare and public health. Technology: Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Photoshop, Project Management (Airtable, Trello, Slack, Basecamp), CRM/CMS (Salesforce, SalsaLabs).