Garrett Kincaid

Web Content Writer, Self-Published Author

Education

Honors: Stevens Merit Scholarship, ‘21 Tragos Quest to Greece Scholar, ’21 Stevens Creative Writing Contest — 1st Place, ‘22 Zollinger Outstanding Senior Award

Work Experience

• Create long-form news articles published on the university’s website, featuring students’ achievements, faculty research, and campus events
• Engage a broad audience by curating content for different segments, adjusting tone, style, and angles for various platforms, contexts, and reader demographics
• Translate complex faculty research into digestible video scripts for an ongoing lecture series
• Ghostwrite messages on behalf of leadership for a monthly newsletter with an audience of 30,000

• Acquire skills in marketing and content creation across various social media channels and my personal website
• • Write news articles as a contracted and freelance writer, marketing higher-ed institutions
• Promote my self-published book, The Pursuit of Purpose: Meditations on Life Lessons

• Assessed students’ ideas, goals, and expectations to advise on various types of writing (essays, resumes, cover letters) in a one-on-one setting, most often as live meetings
• Delivered consistent contributions to our team through down-time projects, creating documentation of our best practices and a handout on grammar and mechanics

• Collaborated with peers and faculty to offer pro-bono consulting services to local small businesses
• Created marketing copy for our project that was distributed to 376 local businesses, yielding a 36% open rate and 25 unique responses through an attached Google Form
• Drafted an interview script and helped conduct 30 discovery sessions, learning about clients’ pain points and matching each with a team of student-consultants

Skills

Leadership

• Direct a subcommittee tasked with creating a mental health toolkit for 260 SigEp chapters around the country, detailing brother-to-brother programming pillars

• Formulated writing prompts fit for a dialogue between students and professors, coordinating their correspondence and editing their submissions
• Contributed as a co-author, sharing multiple written dialogues with professors
• Formatted manuscripts of each issue to self-publish as paperback books

• Facilitated weekly discussions among students and faculty, each with 10 or more participants, to cover philosophical topics and share opinions on challenging questions

• Selected by coaches to represent our team as a member of Stevens’s Athletic Leadership Program

Interests

Skiing, Hiking, Backpacking, Facilitating Discussions, Investing, Coaching, Singing