Julissa Villatoro 6667 El Colegio Road #38 Goleta, CA 93117 (213) 810 - 6168 Primary email: [email protected] Secondary email: [email protected] SUMMARY EDUCATION College Ready Academy High School #5 — Diploma, 2011 University of California, Santa Barbara — L&S/BA/ Chican@ Studies (Ongoing) EXPERIENCE Associate News Director, KCSB-FM Goleta, CA — 2014-present I am employed to become Associate News Director, which means I work with the News Director to train volunteer reporters, serve as a member of the KCSB Executive Committee, file my own news reports, and help ensure the KCSB News programming runs accordingly. I would like to add that as of the summer of 2014, the News Director had resigned and I have had to assume more responsibilities until the station finds a new director. Accomplishments ● Recruiting and training reporters. ● Providing consistent news programming over the SKILLS Writing: ● News (Broadcasting) ● Research papers ● Textual analyses ● Oral histories ● Creative writing (i.e. poetry, scriptwriting, fiction, transformative works) Computer Softwares: ● MS Word ● MS Powerpoint ● Photoshop ● GIMP ● Audacity ● Windows Movie Maker ● iMovie Miscellaneous: ● Conducting interviews ● Cinematography summer. ● Successful coverage of the UC Regents Conference at San Francisco in September. Reporter, The Bottom Line ● ● Relevant Courses ● Goleta, CA — Winter 2014 - Spring 2014 For two quarters, I joined The Bottom Line newspaper Film editing Illustrations Intro to Communication Fall 2011 ● Women, Representation, seeking to find another way of writing journalism. Ironically, and Cultural Production I found myself reporting for their multimedia section, which Fall 2011 mostly entailed video recording and photography than ● 2011 writing. These videos are then posted on the newspaper’s Youtube channel. I also served as an illustrator, providing ● ● Accomplishments Showing consistency to provide work ● Becoming the paper’s illustrator and multimedia reporter ● Communication Research Methods Spring 2012 drawings for some of their news pieces. ● Hollywood Industry Fall Chicana Writers Fall 2012 ● Academic Writing Fall 2012 ● Spoken Word Art Meeting the qualifications for the Multimedia Editor’s Performance Winter position 2013 ● Volunteer Reporter, KCSB-FM Goleta, CA — Winter 2012 - Spring 2014 Spring 2013 ● Before I was hired to become the next Associate News Director, I served as a volunteer reporter for the first three Blacks in the Media Survey of Chicano Literature Spring 2013 ● Theories of years at KCSB. My role was solely to file stories I wished to Communication Spring cover, and anchor the newscasts. 2013 ● Accomplishments ● Best Culture Feature Story Opening of Jim Crow Studies Winter 2014 ● Museum Racist Memorabilia (Spring 2012) ● Certificate of Appreciation for Dedication and Acquiring position to anchor the newscasts ● ● Los Angeles, CA — Spring 2011 Grammar and Stylistics Summer 2014 ● Filmmaker, Bullying Documentary Poetics of Struggle Spring 2014 (2013present) Religion and Social Movement Spring 2014 Longstanding Commitment (Spring 2013) ● Writing for Chicana/o Writing about Film Summer 2014 ● Chicana/o Media Summer 2014 One of the extracurricular activities I participated in high ● school was the Drama Club. Despite the name, the club (current) encouraged any kind of creative work and writing other than ● drama performance. I was able to continue writing poetry, short stories, but it was the first time I even considered Decolonizing Feminism Media and Information Culture (current) practicing filmmaking. A professional from the film industry also attended the club to offer crash courses on filmmaking. One film I am particularly proud of is a short documentary I wrote and directed titled Bullying , which explores the issue of bullying particularly at my high school at the time. Accomplishments ● Bresee Social Justice Film Festival 2011, First Place ● Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles Student Film Festival Cinemateca 2011, Festival Favorite