Caitlin Marie Walsh

Writer. Thinker. Problem Solver.

Experience

Disability Law Center Boston November 2021

Administrative Assistant


GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders Boston February 2018-October 2021

Public Affairs Assistant 


Administrative

  • Provide reception coverage, including answering phones, greeting visitors, accepting deliveries.
  • Monitor general email account, responding to and forwarding inquiries as appropriate
  • Interact with vendors such as printers, designers, advertising outlets, photographers
  • Maintain inventory of GLAD swag and publications, including ordering and storage
  • Handle processing of Public Affairs and Education Department invoices and credit card receipts
  • Make travel arrangements, book rooms, handle meeting logistics, set up zoom webinars and large meetings.
  • Assist with administrative tasks in the organizing of events and trainings
  • Copying, filing, and data entry, including SalesForce
  • Coordinate staff photos
  • Maintain event calendar, in coordination with the Community Engagement Manager
  • Provide general administrative support to the Public Affairs department as needed

Media relations

  • Track LGBTQ and GLAD press coverage, prepare and disseminate reports
  • Format selected press coverage for Development department engagement
  • Triage incoming press calls
  • Assist in the production of press materials, as needed
  • Assist with logistics of press conferences, as needed


Amazon.com, Boston June 2017-September 2017

Temporary Speech and Language Annotator

Contracted through Collabera

  • Transcribe and annotate user audio from Alexa devices

John F. Kennedy Family Service Center, Charlestown  September 2016–May 2017

Marketing Volunteer

  • Provided feedback for website redesign and social media strategies to increase engagement
  • Copy edited newsletters
  • Attended brainstorm sessions to assist with event planning

Cambridge Medical Supply, Cambridge December 2014 – August 2016

File Manager

  • Responded to a wide variety of daily customer telephone and fax inquiries
  • Processed orders and ensured timely delivery of breast pumps
  • Maintained physical records of every order for durable medical equipment


Cell Press, Cambridge September – November 2014

Interim Editorial Assistant

Contracted through Randstad

  • Served as a liaison between authors, reviewers and editors for three scientific journals
  • Monitored journal emails, highlighting high-priority questions and forwarding to editors
  • Managed workflow from initial submissions to peer review 


AdmitLink Consulting Inc., Cambridge, March - May 2014 

Copywriting Intern

  • Drafted external newsletters and emails to potential clients
  • Brainstormed marketing strategies for social media outreach and website redesign


TheStreet.com, New York, NY (remotely) January 2012 - September 2013

Web Producer 

  • Generated a list of stories and pitch to partner websites: MSNmoney, Yahoo Finance etc.
  • Made requested content ready and available for partners
  • Managed TheStreet’s WordPress blog on Forbes.com


RecordSetter.com, New York, NY January 2011- October 2011 

Freelance Contributor 

  • Collaborated with writers and editors on The RecordSetter Book of World Records 
  • Organized and inventoried records for book using Excel
  • Compiled media for publication from videos and pictures
  • Managed outreach to record holders for content

Education

UMass Boston

College of Advancing and Professional Studies October 2019

Successful Grant Writing, from A to Z


Hofstra University 
Hofstra Honors College, Hempstead, NY May 2011

Bachelor of Arts, Creative Writing & German 3.67 GPA

Honors: Cum Laude, Dean’s List, Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, Presidential Scholarship