AnimalRighter
Mat Thomas
Email: mathomas@gmail.com
Qualifications
– Published writer with nearly a decade of professional writing experience
– Detail-oriented editor with an exceptional command of grammar and style
– Focused project manager with strong organizational and word-processing skills
Employment History
2000 - 2004: New Business Analyst, United Behavioral Health (San Francisco, CA)
– Analyzed RFPs and wrote business proposals in response to RFPs from Fortune 500 corporations, public sector agencies, and large non-profit organizations
– Managed proposal writing projects, evaluated client needs, created task timelines, chaired meetings, and assigned tasks to project team members
– Framed proposal strategy with editors, writers, production coordinators, and other UBH staff members
2004 - 2008: Writer/Editor, In Defense of Animals (San Rafael, CA)
– Wrote and edited magazine articles, website content, brochures, press releases, fact sheets, promotional materials, fundraising letters, and other deadline-driven copy
– Editor and principle writer and of weekly eNewsletter with over 20,000 subscribers
–Developed and coordinated media strategy and campaign messaging with communications and other IDA staff members
2008 - 2009: Writer/Editor, Farm Sanctuary (Watkins Glen, NY)
– Wrote and edited magazine articles, website content, brochures, press releases, fact sheets, promotional materials, fundraising letters, and other deadline-driven copy
– Associate Editor of Sanctuary, a quarterly print newsletter with a 60,000 per-issue circulation
– Coordinated media strategy and campaign messaging with communications and other staff
2003 - present: Freelance Writer
– Write feature articles, profiles, travel, and how-to pieces for magazines and online publications
– Wrote “News Beet” column for VegNews magazine, and currently write a column for Animal World magazine
– Created and maintain the website www.animalrighter.org (which includes links to dozens of published articles) as well as the blog www.animalrighter.blogspot.com
Education
– B.A. in Psychology - State University of New York, New Paltz
– Certificate in Technical Information Development - Sacramento State University, College of Extended Education