KENDRA A. KABASELE

kendrakabasele@gmail.com

A highly competent and accomplished Journalist, Media Professional, Senior Copywriter, and Photographer

Copywriter, Freelance Journalist & Photographer, Digital Producer & Writer
Greater Washington, D.C. Area

SUMMARY

Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Graduate Diploma in Journalism. Media focus as a Freelance Journalist (TV Host/reporter, Writer, Producer). Extensive experience covering topical news stories, interviewing celebrities and community citizens, as well
as creating and developing several media projects.

Also Photography Syndication expert including areas such as celebrity portraiture, photojournalism, fashion, news, sports, etc, with an international client base, including the US, France, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Austria, and Mexico. Senior Account Executive experience (8 years) in photo and motion clip licensing with a US based client roster of TV and film studios, magazines, newspapers, and books.

With extensive experience in copywriting and editing, experience includes expertise in blogging, copy writing/copy editing, social media, and photojournalism.

Specialties: Writing, media, print, broadcast, sales, photography, magazine, newspaper, internet, online, journalism, psychology, relationships, music, news, culture, TV, television, hosting, reporting, celebrity, interviewing, copywriting, editing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Target
Senior Copywriter
Greater Los Angeles Area & Greater Washington, D.C. Area

Senior Copywriter for Target Creative, driving and leading the marketing, branding, and packaging presence among the brands and sub-brands. Producing copy for branding, product, and packaging, including brand strategies, product features, storytelling, collection naming, and labeling. Working closely with partners, including, but not limited to, Creative and Art Directors, Design, and more, as well as researching and actively collaborating for pitches and presentations.

Target
Copywriter
Greater Los Angeles Area

Copywriting for branding, product, and packaging, including brand strategies, product features, and labeling. Working closely with Art Directors and Designers, as well as researching, and active collaboration for pitches and presentations.

Glow Botanica
Copywriter
Greater Los Angeles Area

Copywriter for all copy needs, including blogs, website, SEO, packaging, and presentation.

Raptic
Copywriter
Greater Los Angeles Area

Copywriting for the development of new brand of mobile phone accessories. Includes better defining the brand statement, writing product descriptions, highlights and taglines, and more.

Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Copywriter
New York, NY

Copywriter for surgical department, including short and long-form copy for campaigns, as well as educational and healthcare professional resources.

FAM Brands, LLC
Senior Copywriter
Greater Los Angeles Area

Lead Senior Copywriter overseeing the copywriting and copy editing needs for assets under the marketing umbrella — including (but not limited to) product descriptions, emails, blogs, packaging, hang tags, web (hero, header, subhead), promo (flyers, T-shirts), magazine (writer, editor, assignment), social media (posts, influencer outreach), customer service, and more, in the apparel industry. Also conceptualizing ideas and producing content to accompany other tasks, including photography and innovative new ways to connect with the customers.

Social Media Relations
Copywriter
Greater Los Angeles Area

Copywriter for digital marketing agency, including social media copy and blogs for clients in the real estate and construction spaces.

Glory Skincare
Senior Copywriter
Greater Los Angeles Area | Portland, Oregon

Senior Copywriter, editor, and proofreader for skincare box subscription company for women of color, including helping to shape the voice of the brand, as well as blog and email marketing copy, content strategy, product and packaging copy, and overseeing contributors.

Forever 21
Copywriter
Greater Los Angeles Area

Copywriter and editor for Forever 21’s Global Creative team (content online & e-commerce). Handling technical and creative copy, product descriptions, tags, blog entries, and other company copy. Daily duties include meeting and exceeding Key Performance Indicator (KPI) output and targets. Trained in Intellectual Property.

Variety
Freelance Writer
Greater Los Angeles Area

Writer reporting on local Hollywood events for the longstanding trade publication. One-on-one interviews include Marvel legend Stan Lee, Writer/ Director Mark Duplass, Danai Gurira, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mary J. Blige, Alfre Woodard, Justin Simien, Lena Waithe, Tessa Thompson, Tiffany Haddish, and more.

Kendra Kabasele
Freelance TV Host/Journalist/Writer/Producer (TV, print, radio) & Photographer

Host, reporter, producer, writer (TV, print, radio)

Broadcast reel available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=LOMQk7cRBko

Kendra A Kabasele Photography Photographer
Greater Los Angeles Area

Kendra A Kabasele Photography was born when LA-based Canadian Journalist and Photographer Kendra A. Kabasele transformed the worst pain in her life after losing her mother, into a beautiful passion project in honor
of her mother and mothers around the world, every day, all year long. The Anita Claire Project was launched on Mother's Day of 2014, as a gift to her mother. Out of The Anita Claire Project came a natural transition into capturing other subjects, places and objects. After about a decade of experience in the behind the scenes of the photo syndication and licensing world, representing photographers and serving clients in all streams of media (print, broadcast, film, online, etc), Kendra has embraced her creative side and is creating photographic memories for people, from behind the lens. While she likes to call her passion "people photography", she also excels in the areas of capturing the beauty of travel and everyday objects. As an international photographer, her love for documentary style shooting also allows for priceless candid pieces, in every type of assignment she dives into.

Photography and video shoot concepts, execution and post production, marketing, social media management and marketing, writing and editing.

****CLIENTS INCLUDE: Sundance Institute, Warner Bros., Warner Horizon, The Wrap, Essence Magazine, Charity Water, The Steve & Marjorie Harvey Foundation, IRAAA+ Journal, California State University Northridge, Valley Performing Arts Center/The Soraya, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Pepperdine University, Little Big Shots, and Eric Bigger.

The Anita Claire Project
Photographer, Videographer, Producer, Writer, Editor May 2014 - Present

Creator of this tribute project which highlights and captures the bond between mothers and daughters via photography, video and the written word.
Includes pre and post production, marketing, social media management and marketing and editing. Featured on Essence Magazine’s online platform, ESSENCE.COM.

http://AClaireView.com

Tadashi Shoji

Freelance Writer

Greater Los Angeles Area

Writer of creative blog posts for the digital space, including content related to the fashion brand, as it relates to women, history, architecture, and more.

Celebrity Optimist & Celebrity Optimist TV
Founder, Host, Producer, Editor & Writer at CelebrityOptimist.com & Celebrity Optimist TV

Blog with the mission of shifting the focus form the negative to the positive things celebrities do with their platform. Also featured are everyday people making a difference.

AfterBuzz TV
Host

Created by Maria Menounos and filmmaker Keven Undergaro,
the AfterBuzz TV Network is a new media platForm that produces live and recorded “after-show” webcast and podcast content for TV series of all kinds. Subscribe for FREE on iTunes.

Host of after-show episodes. Shows hosted include HBO's Newsroom, Fox's Terra Nova after-show, E!'s behind the scenes modeling show, Scouted, NBC's musical hit Smash and CBS' paranormal series The River, MTV's This Is How I Made It; with co-hosts.

Manny Merchan Productions
Executive Producer for Untitled Documentary Film January 2011 - Present

Women Like Us Foundation

Volunteer Mentor

"We bring together those who want to make the world a better place by lifting up the work of women around the world."

Corus Entertainment
Digital Writer, ETCanada.com | Entertainment Tonight Canada
Greater Los Angeles Area

Writing articles, copy-editing, photo features, video teasers and other breaking entertainment news for Entertainment Tonight Canada's online platform.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Group of Companies

Freelance Photographer & Videographer
Greater Los Angeles Area

Freelance photographer and videographer behind the scenes of hit TV show “Little Big Shots”, starring Steve Harvey.

Bell + Ivy
Editorial Director
Greater Los Angeles Area

Formerly Ipseity. Currently known as Bell + Ivy. Wrote and edited content for media company corporate clients, assigned writers to complete content on deadline, and oversaw the production process, including coordination, production, and management of editorial calendar and goals.

Warner Horizon Television Inc.

Freelance Photographer
Greater Los Angeles Area

Freelance photographer for Bachelor Insider's "Will You Accept This Ride?" Stills and videos captured behind the scenes of the YouTube show with host Lisa Schwartz as she interviewed Bachelor, Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise cast members.

Leimert Park Village Book Fair

Co-Host/Emcee
Greater Los Angeles Area

Co-host of the main stage and sit-down one-one-one interview with veteran actress and author Kim Coles.

Telepictures

Digital Writer & Producer, EXTRA!

Greater Los Angeles Area

Wrote and produced articles, copy-editing, photo features, video teasers and other breaking entertainment news for EMMY Award-winning TV program “Extra's" online platform.

International Review of African American Art Plus +

Freelance Photographer

Client: International Review of African American Art Plus (IRAAA+), supplied photos of Hard Edged: Geometric Abstraction at the California African American Museum near USC. International Review of African American Art, August 2016.

Valley Performing Arts

Freelance Photographer

Client: California State University Northridge & Valley Performing Arts, photographed the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet.

California State University, Northridge

Freelance Photographer

Client: California State University Northridge & Valley Performing Arts, photographed the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet.

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet

Freelance Photographer

Time Inc./Essence Magazine
Social Media Manager/Photographer (Instagram) and Celebrity Coordinator
Greater Los Angeles Area

Oversaw Essence Magazine/Essence.com’s social media Instagram account and updating during the BWIH event. Photographer for their Instagram account and celebrity coordinator. Subjects included Oprah Winfrey, John Legend, Sidney Poitier, Issa Rae, Angela Bassett, and more.

Steve & Marjorie Harvey Foundation

Photographer

Photographer for the 2014 Steve & Marjorie Harvey Foundation Girls Who Rule the World mentoring weekend. Foundation created by Comedian and TV and Radio Talk Show Host Steve Harvey and Marjorie Harvey.

The goal is to enhance the development of young girls and provide a forum to expose them to the benefits and the importance of positive self image, responsible personal conduct, respect for self and others via educational achievement, cultural enrichment and mentoring.

GirlsWhoRuleTheWorld.org

Time Inc./Essence Magazine
Social Media Manager/Photographer (Instagram) and Celebrity Coordinator

7th Annual Black Women in Hollywood, Beverly Hills Hotel

Event honoring Lupita Nyong'o, Ava Duvernay, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Jim Brown, Denise Nicholas and Nichelle Nichols. Overseeing Essence Magazine/ Essence.com’s social media Instagram account and updating during the BWIH event. Photographer for Instagram account and celebrity coordinator.

Rex USA/BEImages/Vistalux
Senior Sales Executive (Photo Agency)

Greater Los Angeles Area

Photo syndication of event photography, studio portraiture, current events
and other visual images. Client base and business development. Included domestic and international travel, face-to-face client meetings (broadcast, print, online), contracts and managing US team, research, pitching and reports. Sales Department Manager and outside sales, including managing an assistant.

Time Inc./Essence Magazine
Volunteer Social Media Manager/Photographer (Instagram) and Celebrity Coordinator
6th Annual Black Women in Hollywood event, Beverly Hills Hotel

Event honoring Oprah Winfrey, Quvenzhané Wallis, Gabrielle Union, Mara Brock Akil, Alfre Woodard and Naomie Harris. Overseeing Essence Magazine/ Essence.com’s social media Instagram account and updating during the BWIH event. Photographer for Instagram account and celebrity coordinator.

Inspired Girls International Volunteer

Renowned Productions, LLC Producer/Co-owner

“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Was Enuf” by Ntozake Shange – Producer, Theater Play (2008); TV show and film development and production

Corbis

Senior Account Executive

Proactive prospecting, leading Senior Account Executive and asset to company leading sales team revenue by meeting and exceeding monthly and quarterly revenue targets (and in turn, meeting and exceeding the yearly targets); outstanding business relationship with client base (TV and film studios, magazines, books and newspapers, online media, etc.)

Icon International (Photo Syndication Agency)

Senior Sales Executive
Greater Los Angeles Area

International sales contact for media clients (publications) in France, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Austria, and Mexico. Handled photo syndication sales, daily interaction with photo editors, placing celebrity portraiture, fashion
and other photography in magazines, newspapers, and other media outlets worldwide. Other daily tasks included regular communication with PR reps, celebrity agents, magazine, online and newspaper editors, and inside sales team. Monthly duties included meeting and exceeding monthly quota targets. Clients included magazine publishers, namely, Condé Nast, Meredith, Hearst, American Media, Johnson Publishing, Laufer Media, and many more, foreign and local.

Spafax/EN ROUTE MAGAZINE

Visual Researcher

Visual Researcher at En Route Magazine, Air Canada's in-flight magazine. Researching, proposing and placing visuals/photos in monthly issues of the publication.

Edenmagazine.com

Relationship writer

EDUCATION

Concordia University Graduate Diploma, Journalism

Concordia University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Psychology

Marianopolis College

DEC, Health Sciences

Howard S. Billings High School High School, Science

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

President - Concordia University (Montréal) Alumni Chapter | Los Angeles