Social Media Examples
This is just a little PDF of some of my social media work with clients including elected officials, nonprofits, and campaigns.
Curious gadabout, born and raised Oregonian.
Smitten with scruffy dog and a well-crafted sentence.
I've worked as a journalist, a copywriter, a policy analyst, a marketing consultant, as well as a content manager and social media strategist. If it requires words, I've probably done it.
Get at me. We'll probably be fast friends.
This is just a little PDF of some of my social media work with clients including elected officials, nonprofits, and campaigns.
At my local Fred Meyer, it's a relatively quiet day. I scramble to pack my own grocery bags - it appears that there are no courtesy clerks on shift-and the middle-aged cashier, who wears a button...
A couple of weeks ago, I heard a podcast host describe his decision to leave his high-paced tech job because he was "burned out." Then, at a conference last week, I listened as two mangers had a...
Does it matter if your house is messy? If it doesn't bother you, who cares? Well, maybe you care...just a little.
"Modern life is killing us" - Doctors in 1925
I'm not a heavy user of TikTok for many reasons, but mostly because I'm in my 30s and too far gone to learn a new social media platform. In the last year or so, though, I've been seeing more and more TikTok videos appear in my other feeds - and I've been noticing an interesting trend.
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You ever see those cool women whose hair is just, like, up? And it looks great? Full and lush and shiny and both mussed and also elegant? How do they do it? This is a serious question. Because I am...
Seattle is a changed place. New York could take a lesson.
Even newcomers know about the silver cans that couldn't. A decade ago, the City of Seattle ended its brief, expensive experiment with public toilets. Widely regarded as an urban necessity, the "self-cleaning" space johns were the kind of progressive pilot program that make this town great.
Zachary Warren spends a lot of his time thinking about chairs. Desk chairs, to be more specific. Though there's a range of chair sizes in the classroom where he's taught for years in the Seattle Public School system, he says, "They don't fit the kids. The desks don't fit the kids."
It's impossible to ignore the dark turn our popular media has taken. From podcasts about murders to documentaries about criminal cover-ups, creators have been scrounging into our dark histories to find strange, bizarre, and terrifying stories to highlight. Naturally, this includes cults. The Manson Family. Jonestown. Rajneeshpuram.
Writing in 1916, conservationist John Muir noted that "there is not a 'fragment' in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself." A century later, in the Pacific Northwest, land managers, tribal leaders, environmental stewards, lawmakers, and business interests are locked in a fight over which harmonious units and relative fragments can be rearranged to satisfy all parties.
First myth: The United States is better than this A recent headline about nearly 1,500 undocumented children who've been lost in the system has alarmed citizens and, in some cases, prompted them to declare that removing children from their parents is somehow un-American. Historically, this is not true.
Redlining, civil neglect and big-league dreams let historic Sicks' Stadium fall to pieces.
During the 2017 election cycle, which included races for City Council, school board, and the Mayor, the City of Seattle sent every registered voter-442,316 people in total-four pieces of paper. The papers, called Democracy Vouchers, were each worth $25, paid for by the taxpayers, and were to be used for the sole purpose of making contributions to that year's active campaigns.
Sleeplessness contributes, popular science preaches, to obesity, diabetes, poor diet, and unproductiveness. And yet, even those of us who should have no problem logging a solid eight hours often struggle to get enough.
On a drizzling day last winter, Rebecca Samuelson drove from her job at Redfin, a technology startup in Seattle, about an hour south to a high-school football field in the city of Kent. When she arrived, it had already been dark for at least an hour.
If a single-payer plan doesn't protect abortion, we cannot call it universal. I n the wake of the GOP's recent and unflagging attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act - an unpopular move by multiple measures - a handful of Democrats are fighting back with a push in the opposite direction.
Homeless individuals are at outsized risk of being injured or killed by gun violence—not that you'd know it from the coverage or the policies.
This article originally appeared on The Daily Dot. After the #BlackMonday panic sent westward shockwaves last week, the stock market seems to be rebounding even further Wednesday-quelling the concerns of many who worried their retirements, investments, and financial futures were in jeopardy.
Trendy Paganism focuses on crushed velvet, Oujia boards, and five-pointed stars - without considering the actual faith. E veryone has something about their upbringing that embarrassed them as a child. Maybe it was your dad's minivan. Maybe it was something darker, like his drinking problem. Maybe it was mom's taste in classic rock.
My body and I have had a tense relationship. But we're working on it! And part of that ~bonding process~ includes accepting it for what it is and not what I think it could be if only I had literally endless time to spend working out and eating magical whole foods that come in colorful bowls.
Hanna Brooks Olsen is a writer and policy consultant living in Seattle. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, the Nation, Salon, GOOD, HuffPost, Everyday Feminism, Bitch Magazine, and NPR. If I were to go into business as a cannabis retailer in the state of Washington, I'd have a pretty good shot.
Illustration by Joshua Boulet There's a dead end street in Shoreline with a construction site at the end. Like a lot of plots in the area, contractors are working to replace the old building-a small white house-with a new one. When it's finished, the lot will hold Fire Station 63.
Getting up before 8:00 a.m. wasn't something that came easily for my mom, so many mornings between kindergarten and the third grade, my older brother and woke to our own alarms, dressed ourselves, and walked ourselves to school. It wasn't a big deal; our town in Oregon was small and safe and the walk was short.
I worked behind a bar long enough to know the difference between the fun ones and the mean ones. It's something in their posture-shoulders, elbows, the cock of the head-but mostly in their face.
My mother's pocketbook was always massive. In addition to carrying checks, it was also stuffed with receipts, change, and numerous forms of payment for groceries. Specifically, the green sheet of stamps and the little slips for big cans of juice, opened with a churchkey, and big bricks of The Good Cheese.
The decline is due to a variety of factors (including anti-union policies, trade agreements, and the decline of the manufacturing industry, among other things) and has impacted millions of workers. But if you haven't heard of this issue, don't feel bad - the decrease in union membership hasn't exactly drawn splashy headlines.
She does it because she has to ... but she just shouldn't have to.
Despite the apocalyptic warnings of anti-legalization activists and organizations, in the almost three years since Washington voters opted to decriminalize the sale of recreational marijuana, the state has not yet gone to pot. Drug lords haven't taken over and marijuana tourism has not created hours-long waits at the borders of Oregon and Idaho.
The Ultimate 12th Man Guide I'm a fan and you're a fan. Can we stop fighting and hate the 49ers together?
Factory jobs are gone. Barista jobs are here to stay. It's time to recognize that and pay people accordingly.
Student debt is a hot issue—but what if we could help millions of students with their loans just by changing the tax code?
Despite their best attempts to burn Quicken Loans Arena to the ground with white supremacy, plagiarism, and fog machines, the Republican National Convention continues to bumble along in Cleveland. And though plenty of people have criticized the party, the convention, and even Donald Trump himself for a lack of actual policy proposals, that's not entirely true-the GOP has proposed policies, they're just not good ones.
When a woman who lived in my college apartment complex became overcome by her depression, took a hiatus from school, and went to stay with her parents a few hours away, I remember seething with envy. Not because she was depressed - who would be jealous of that?
One of my favorite pieces I've written, this examination of Ballard's famous Macefield House allowed me to probe a local folktale and find out what the real story was.
The one time I was on McSweeney's.
Appearances
Portland-based writer and political consultant Hanna Brooks Olsen recently penned a piece with the headline, "You, Housed Person, Are Not The Victim Of Homelessness."
A list instructing employers on how to help workers who struggle to afford food has spurred a fiery debate on social media. The term food insecurity refers to people whose eat poorly or irregularly due to financial strain. These people fall into two categories, the United States Department of Agriculture explains.
The time I gave a talk!
A Seattle CEO cuts his own pay so he can double his employees' salaries - is this a new model for capitalism? Should Washington state tax the megarich? Does Woodland Park Zoo deserve a boycott? Bill Radke hosts our weekly news debate with panelists C.R.
"Sound Effect" is a weekly tour of ideas, inspired by the place where we live. The show is hosted by KPLU's Gabriel Spitzer. Each week's show will explore a different theme. In this week's show, we delve into vice. Ashley Gross introduces us to a grandmother who has struggled with drug addiction since she was a young girl herself.
I was interviewed for NPR once, because I self-published a novel. Single most exciting experience of my life.