Communications and design with special emphasis in outreach/PR, project management, publicity, and events for activist and cultural organizations. Email me for jobs and references tucker.daniel[AT]gmail.com (replace [AT] with @ and send away!)
- Design/Workshop: Safe Routes Ambassadors – Customized Content Management System using WordPress templates; administration and maintenance workshop for users; strategic planning meetings with administrators to determine direction/structure/content
- Publicity/Outreach: Futurefarmers public art project about Energy Policy in the 08 elections. Worked with Provisions Library (funder) and the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (venue). Placed articles and blurbs in Newcity, Chicago Reader, Gapersblock, Flavorpill and developed outreach through social networks, Craigslist, list-servs, facebook and relevant local organizations.
- Blogging Workshop and Technical Assistance: Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois
- Design/Workshop: Metropolitan Tenants Organization of Chicago has hired me as their webmaster. From Spring 06-Spring 08, I have designed the site (with blogger integration), prepared user reports, given admin workshops to the employees and do regular maintenance, updates and improvements.
- Workshop Leader: Center for Urban Economic Development – Planning new website, messaging and identity in day long workshop and follow-up report.
- Workshop Leader: Day long meeting with the ex-offender workers organization “Roll Call Chicago” to develop email and blogging competence amongst members.
- Contributor to popular Chicago-centric blog gapersblock.com (2007)
- Trainings: Strategic Communications Workshop – Led by Miami Workers Center Communications Team (2007); -Popular Education Training by Project South at MidWest Social Forum (2006); -Intro to Blogging/Vlogging at Allied Media Conf. (2005); -Story/PR Strategy Workshop – Led my SmartMeme (2005); -Digital Map Archiving for at the Newberry Library (2004)
- Publicity: Biz3 Publicity (Communications Internship) Assisted with publicity, client relations, and communications logging for internationally popular indie rock (ie.Tortoise) and hip hop artists (ie.Lady Soverign).
- Design: Personal Websites for Nance Klehm, Hugo Michel Hernandez, Gail A. Tucker, VisibleFoods;
- Image Production: Photo editing and retouching for Seeds of Peace, Jewish Partisans Educational Foundation and the Center for Cartographic History at the Newberry Library.
- Design: Print Poster/Publication Layout for DePaul University’s School of Visual Art Education, Discount Cinema, Blocks Together, Art Institute of Chicago Visiting Artist Program Mapping Series
- Panel Organizer: “Reclaim the Commons” Event @ NAMAC 2007 [Austin, TX]. This panel attempted to link the current trends in corporate-controlled online distribution and so-called Web 2.0 with a more historical critique of media ownership monopolization. With presentations by Sharon Strover (UT), Joshua Levy (Personal Democracy), Carol Pierson (NFCB), Tracy Van Slyke (Media Consortium).
- Education: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, [Chicago IL] BFA Degree, 2004 with Emphasis in Video/Design/Arts Administration
