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Portfolio of Content Written and Prepared by Tacuma Roeback
I am a senior communications professional with over 20 years of experience developing compelling content for media organizations, nonprofits and corporations. Whether serving as a communications coordinator or editor-in-chief, the common thread throughout my career is the desire to help entities strategize and develop content that best amplifies their mission.
Portfolio of Content Written and Prepared by Tacuma Roeback
A portfolio of my social media and communications coordinator work.
A white paper advocating for medication-assisted treatment in substance abuse programs.
A feature-length audio story about the young man who spawned a movement on behalf of pediatric cancer awareness.
smithsonian.com Jimi Hendrix revolutionized what the guitar could sound like and how it could be played. He was a visionary whose fashion statements and performances roared like the notes he hit on that instrument. He induced sounds so otherworldly, that critics and admirers during his time, referred to it as "space music."
A's DJs provide the sounds of summer In a recent A's home game, Rajai Davis stroked a leadoff double in the first inning, and Jed Lowrie banged a single. Davis was about to round third for home but stopped. At that moment, from a production suite high above the field, Lee Merritts reversed course on a song.
Stanford's Olivia Baker hopes she's on fast track to Olympics On her final lap, runners from Villanova and Penn State passed her, and her team fell from first to third. "We were set up fairly well for Penn Relays," Stanford assistant coach Gabe Sanders said weeks after the meet.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act could create an added financial burden for Americans living in high-tax states, affecting how businesses pursue talent; it could even compel families to opt for states with lower taxes and a lower cost of living.
Warriors' David West pursuing first championship ring Kevin Durant isn't the only player to join the Warriors in pursuit of that elusive championship ring. The 13-year veteran has been here before, having gone to the playoffs with the then-New Orleans Hornets, the Pacers and the Spurs. Both were considered championship favorites.
Gators rate as Division II title contenders "When I crossed the finish line," Harvey said of her win in the 200 meters, I looked at the scoreboard and saw my name and my time (23.56 seconds), and then I saw the words, 'conference champion.'
A compilation of some of my best stories.
I tramped around Wrigleyville on a chilly October night in search of a World Series Game 4 story for my Journalism Methods class. I had squat. The deadline for my Features with a News Hook assignment was in less than 24 hours, and by hour number three of my quest, the 73-degree day had turned drastically colder as dusk engulfed the sky.
What's it like being a Chicago White Sox fan when the Cubs, your bitter rivals, are the reigning World Series champs? We asked a mother and her daughter that very question at the recently concluded SoxFest at the downtown Chicago Hilton.
As the son of Nobel Prize winning-physicist Melvin Schwartz, what made you want to write a biography of Fermi? Smithsonian Magazine | What research did you do for the book? Just over 75 years ago, physicist Enrico Fermi conducted a famous nuclear experiment beneath the University of Chicago's football field on December 2, 1942.
"He's an impressive looking human being, isn't he?" Downing asked rhetorically at the Raiders' practice facility in Alameda on Tuesday. The Raiders signed the eight-year veteran to a two-year, $10.6 million deal in March with the hopes of bolstering an already formidable attack.
A video story on 2017 Warrior Games participant Roel Espino of Los Angeles. Written, Edited and Narrated By Tacuma R. Roeback Video Shot By Jaaziah Bethea & Tacuma Roeback
Gray struck out 11 in seven innings while allowing only one run on three hits as the A's topped the Marlins 4-1 on Wednesday. In addition to his first double-digit strikeout games in two years, Gray has back-to-back wins for the first time since April 2016.
On a late January evening at the Gerald Ratner gymnasium at the University of Chicago, students trickled through the doors to collect neon-colored tank tops, sunglasses and Hawaiian leis. It was "Beach Night." They came to socialize. They came to be transported from the dreary, 37-degree night that would greet them again when it was all over.
Town halls, panel discussions and forums on social issues are about as common as team meetings at a startup. They invoke good will and engender positive vibes, but the initial enthusiasm peters out over time and little occurs as a result.
Craig Hodges, once shunned by the NBA, comes back home to teach the game he loves.