Ryan Lee

Member PRSSA 706-436-2411 Lee.Patrick.Ryan@gmail.com

Experience
October 2013 Present / Eastman Chemical Company Digital Media Marketing Intern Perennial Wood brand Write, edit, and publish website, blog and social media content Coordinate communication for a year-long weathering study Conduct audit of SEO keyword density for PerennialWood.com Monitor and report on Key Performance Indicators via Wildfire and Google Analytics 2011 Present / West Colonial Hills Baptist Church Worship Leader Facilitate, and plan music for the worship service each Sunday Morning Coordinate a seven-member band for weekly practices, and a weekly worship service June - July 2013 / Brew Hub Johnson City Communications Coordinator Assisted with First Friday launch of Brew Hub coffee cart including management of Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts, instituting promotions/giveaways, and maintaining engagement with fans/community 2009 2013 / Barberitos Grill Crew/Social Media Manager Manage Twitter/Facebook accounts for the store Carried out daily store operations

Education
2012 Present / East Tennessee State University Bachelor of Arts / Mass Communication Concentration: Public Relations & Advertising Minor: Classical Studies 3.6 GPA in Mass Communications Coursework 2005 2008 / Northeast State Community College Associate of Science / Psychology Presidents List 2000 2004 / Sullivan Central High School Honors Diploma Advanced Placement & Honors coursework

Skills
Proficient & Familiar with:
Twitter Tweetdeck Hootsuite Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Wordpress Blogger (Blogspot) Wildfire Social Marketing Suite

References
Andy Osbolt Owner/Operator Barberitos (Johnson City, TN) (423) 794-9320 Patrick Muncey Owner Link Promotional & Brew Hub Johnson City (423) 817-5191 Wes Rankin Pastor West Colonial Hills Baptist Church (423) 863-1133 Bill Hamilton Adviser Merrill Lynch Wealth Management (423) 292-9768

Press Release (Professional Sample) Sent to JC Press (unpublished), July 13

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Brew Hub to roll out new downtown coffee cart at First Friday
Johnson City, TN, July 1, 2013 Brew Hub, a locally owned mobile coffee cart, will make its debut in downtown Johnson City at Julys First Friday celebration on Friday, July 5. Brew Hub is the idea of former Johnson City Police Department officer Patrick Muncey. For years Ive heard people, including myself, talking about a need for a great, local cup of coffee in Johnson City. Were serious coffee addicts ourselves, so we hope to be the ones to fill that need. Muncey says. Brew Hubs primary supplier of coffee beans is Dynamite Roasters of Black Mountain, NC. The roasters have direct relationships with the farmers who grow and harvest the beans. After being roasted on an as needed basis, the beans then travel 75 miles to Johnson City where they de -gas to prepare for brewing. Brew Hub will grind the beans just prior to brewing the coffee in a French press. We want to make sure were using the best beans we can get our hands on, and that we serve the best cup of coffee that we possibly can. French pressing our coffee and grinding the beans just before we press them will make sure that were giving our customers the best cup of coffee we can make. Muncey says. Munceys cart will also be partnering with The Bagel Exchange of downtown Kingsport, winner of Kingsports Best New Small Business in 2012, to offer authentic New York style bagels. Brew Hub will roll out its downtown coffee cart at 6 p.m. on Friday, July 5 in the Fountain Square are of downtown Johnson City, and will be offering free coffee and bagels. For more information about Brew Hub visit Brew Hub Johnson City on Facebook, or @BrewHubJC on Twitter Contact: Patrick Muncey: (423) 817-5191 Ryan Lee: (706) 436-2411

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Feature Story (Student Sample) Media Writing, ETSU Spring 13

Micah and Marianna Whitson live in New England. The Whitsons dont just live in New England; they live in the most quintessentially New England city in America: Boston. Bostonians though they may be, their business is the south. Micah is a native of Athens, Alabama, and moved even further south to study art at the University of Mississippi. His wife, Marianna, is a North Carolina native and an alum of the University of North Carolina. Together they run a print shop called The Old Try out of a workshop just outside of Boston, in Arlington. Fascinated with what author Roy Blount, Jr. refers to as a southerners inherent sense of place Micah and Marianna started their shop after the tornadoes that ravaged Alabama in the spring of 2011: After the Alabama tornadoes in April of '11, I just couldn't help expressing my broken heart for my smashed state. All the mess that surrounds history and race relations and social disparity fades away when there are people, kinfolk and not, who are hurting. I think I saw the best of Southerners come out then. Faulkner said to write what you know. Well, as a couple that works in advertising in the cold north, we're going to do one different: we're going to design what we know, Micah says. Whitson went about finding traditional letterpress equipment, over 100 years old, to further the dream of helping southern expatriates like he and Marianna reconnect to that sense of place. Whitson designs original pieces of letterpress art for residents of every southern state, and even some states that are technically southern by virtue of Mason and Dixons line, but most wouldnt classify as such. Maryland and Missouri prints appear alongside prints for Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. The Whitsons work has been featured in Southern Living, Thrillist, Garden and Gun Magazine, and @Urban Magazine. The art that comes out of the Arlington workshop is indeed original. Whereas some would rely on tired and overused iconography and symbols of a state and its identity, Micah and Mariannas work delves into history, state mottos, and folklore surrounding the state and its people. One of the offerings for Whitsons home state, Alabama is titled Yellowhammer. The print is a blue background, with a yellow hammer in the center. The print is certainly for residents of Alabama and no one else, as few others would know that Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, due to the state bird, the Yellowhammer. Each print for each state is equally as creative and deeply personal; The Old Trys art is made specifically for Alabamians, and Tennesseans, and Virginians. Micah and Marianna Whitson have a finger directly on the pulse of that sense of place that roots southern hearts so deeply to their homes. More than a diploma from Ole Miss, more than a love for biscuits and gravy and bourbon, and more than an abiding connection to the state where he was born, the most inherently southern thing about this Alabama boy turned Boston ad man is what Micah said to me the first time we ever communicated: Give us a holler if youre ever up this way; weve got a bed with your name on it. Southern hospitality is alive and well, and it lives in Boston.

Feature Story (Student Sample) Media Writing, ETSU Spring 13

Milligan College graduate student Tiffany Brown has been with One7 Johnson City from the beginning. For the first year or so, our main goal was just to get through a game of kickball without fights she says. One7 is a youth and community mentoring organization that operates in Charlotte, N.C. and now operates a group in Johnson City. The organization primarily reaches out to inner-city youth as well as their families. The One7 mission is: to reach at-risk youth with the good news of Jesus, to educate them that they have potential and opportunity, to tell them that they are loved by the Father and by us, and to teach them that we are all one family, regardless of where we come from or what weve been through. Brown says. Brown first became exposed to the Charlotte, N.C. based community mentoring organization while working at Doe River Gorge Christian Camp in Hampton, Tenn. Youth who were a part of the Charlotte program, mostly refugees from countries ravaged by poverty and war, began attending the camp in 2007 as a part of a cooperative program between Doe River Gorge and the organizations headquarters. Brown recalls that a former One7 intern transferred to Milligan College where Brown was the soccer teams chaplain, and the two began forming ideas to start a chapter of One7 locally. The small group involved in the organizations inception in Johnson City began visiting Carver Apartments Watauga Street area of Downtown. The teams first goal was simply to gain trust and build relationships in the community. The small team visited Carver every Sunday, and soon the group included between 10 and 20 college students every week. The small group bible study that sprang from the visits began with 5 children. The group soon outgrew their meeting space, and was graciously offered a space at the Greenwood Farms complex; they soon outgrew it as well. The new home for the burgeoning One7 Johnson City became First Presbyterian Church where the group currently meets. On Tuesday nights around 5 p.m. One7 volunteers make use of Johnson City Housing Authority vans to pick up any youth from the Carver, Greenwood, or Keystone communities who want to be a part of One7. Back at First Presbyterian, the group shares a meal, which the church provides, and spends time playing basketball, soccer, or football. The weekly gathering concludes with a short worship service and small group bible studies. On Thursday night each week volunteers offer tutoring services to the children who attend, and a large group accompanies the One7 volunteers to church on Sunday mornings. The community support for the organization has astounded even the One7 volunteers. Last fall, the Step Dance team from Milligan College performed as a fundraising effort for One7 Johnson City. The result was such a large sum of donations that the group was forced to incorporate under the 501(c)3 umbrella of local leadership organization Summit Leadership in order to accept the donations. One7 Johnson Citys board of directors was formed shortly thereafter. One special focus of the organization, however, is that the kids who attend One7 shouldnt be the only ones being served each week. The group is heavily involved in community outreach and community service. One7 volunteers and mentees collect and deliver food boxes to the local communities, and serve at The Melting Pot at Munsey Methodist Church. Brown and her fellow One7 volunteers arent merely playmates for the kids who attend each week. They make calls during the week to connect with kids. They ask them about life at

school, at home, and with their friends. One7 volunteers are also a support system. They field calls from their mentees about situations at home, situations as school, and simply lend advice and a listening ear about so many things in life. The back of every One7 t-shirt says Youll Never Walk Alone Brown says. We do everything we can to make sure that they know that God is with them and so are we. We want to encourage them to be leaders in their own homes. Were just here to give them the support they need to achieve that.

Blog Entry (Personal Sample) Posted at: alabamabymorning.wordpress.com

The Southern obsession with college football is well-documented but poorly understood. The rest of the nation watches horrified, from September to January every year, as the lunatics come out of the woodwork shouting, drinking, shouting more, drinking more, and occasionally crying. Its akin to watching a full quarter of our nations population be thrust deep into the throes of a manic episode. An episode which summarily becomes depressive. And again manic. Its no wonder that the rest of the country thinks that were all insane. Which is sad, really. Because the rest of the country already thinks that every man, woman, and child south of Washington D.C. is an ignorant, barefoot, simpleton. And that is precisely why we love football so much. Life in the American South, is not easy. Since people claimed ownership over other human beings and Sherman burned Atlanta, the Southern legacy has been hardship. Reconstruction was very nearly a myth in the South. Some would argue that the South is still, even now, reconstructing. The Great Depression that ravaged and wracked the rest of our nation at the beginning of the 1930s was felt ever more heavily in the South, as it was anywhere that agriculture was the industry. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, we had our own microcosmic Civil War. Families were divided again and communities again went to war. Churches were firebombed, men were hanged, and children were kidnapped and tortured all in the name of racial supremacy. American citizens, human beings, had to fight, and in some cases die, for the right to simply eat a sandwich at the same counter as a white man. In the summer of 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, killing 1,836 people and causing an estimated 108 billion dollars in damages. On April 20, 2010 the Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, spilling 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf, devastating the vital shrimp, oyster, and fishing industries in the Gulf. Eight of the ten poorest states (by median income) are Southern states: Louisiana, North Carolina, Alabama, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Nine of the fifteen least-educated states in the country are also Southern states: Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas, and South Carolina. Hardship is a way of life in the American South. And it is for this reason that college football is so vital to our survival as a people. In a world in which the South, in matters of perception, doesnt have much else to be proud of, we hang our hats upon

Blog Entry (Personal Sample, continued)

and puff up our chests because of college football. Quite simply, because were the best at it. To us, it is not just a game. Its the one of the few things we have. A thing that we can point to, and proclaim to the rest of the country: You cant compete with us. Our academics, our healthcare, and our earnings potential are in sad states and dont look to improve soon. Hardship remains our collective legacy, and likely, it ever will. Whether you say Roll Tide, War Eagle, Geaux Tigers, Go Dawgs, or Go Vols (or any litany of cheers and chants), were unified in one thing: Were Southerners, and were better at football than you. The top 25 recruiting classes in college football right now contain eleven of the SECs fourteen teams. The Southeastern Conference has won the last seven National Championships in college football. Since the advent of the Bowl Championship Series in 1998, the SEC has won nine national Championships. There have only been fifteen BCS Championship Games, and the SEC has won nine of them, by an average of two touchdowns (29-15). Subdivided further, those nine trophies have been hoisted by only five different universities. Three of those five have hoisted two or more crystal footballs in the last decade. Come Saturdays, be proud. No matter who your team is. Cheer loud. Get mad. Throw things. Curse at the TV. Cry when your team loses. Cry when they win. Blame everything on referees. Spend the next seven days debating whether or not it was a catch. Spend more time worrying about the state of your quarterbacks shoulder than you do the project you have due at work. Because, by God, its not just a game. Its college football. And its back.