Kirstin F. Kennedy
1237 Ridgewood Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15241 – kfk4@pitt.edu – (412) 491 – 5100
249 Halket Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Objective
Work or an internship which complies with my writing and editing educational track, to write for a daily/weekly paper or in the department of Public Relations
Highlights
• Opinions Editor of high school paper, The St. Clarion
• Inducted into the National Quill and Scroll Society in 2008
• Staff writer and columnist for first college paper, The Thielensian and later The Insider, currently a staff
writer for the Arts and Entertainment/Magazine section of The Pitt News and writing as an intern
for BizChicks.org
• Inducted into the Lambda Sigma National College Honors Society in 2009
• Freelance editing, in particular a book of short stories in the process of being self-published
• Winner of the University of Pittsburgh Ida B. Welles Journalism Writing Contest
• Inducted into the Sigma Tao Delta National College English Honors Society in 2010
• Working on undergraduate degree in English Literature and Writing at the University of Pittsburgh
Education
Thiel College, Greenville, PA, 2008 – 2009
Published in literary magazine, The Phoenix
(Transferred to) The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2009 – present (will graduate in the spring of 2012)
Senior student, working on degree in English Literature and Nonfiction Writing
Upper St. Clair High School, Pittsburgh, PA, 2005 – 2008
Graduate with honors
Employment History
Everything Yogurt and Salad Café, regular employee, June 2007 – May 2010
301 S. Hills Village Road, Bethel Park, PA 15241 (412) 841 – 5734
Biz Chicks Online, journalism intern under Editor-in-Chief, Beth A. Slagel, Summer/Fall 2011
535 Smithfield Street, Suite 1300, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 (412) 465 – 2890
IGA Market on Forbes, regular employee, August 2010 – present
3609 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (412) 621 – 1212
