Margo Stern

San Francisco, CA
415.519.4276 • wordstern@gmail.com

 

Experience

Heat

Copywriter
San Francisco, CA
December 2007 - current

Clients include: EA, Conde Nast, California Academy of Sciences

Freelance Copywriter

San Francisco, CA
December 2006- December 2007

Agencies include: Avenue A-Razorfish, Tajima Creative, 17 Feet

Wieden + Kennedy

Copywriter
Portland, OR
September 2004- November 2006

Clients include: Starbucks, Eukanuba, Coke, Partnership for a Drug-Free America, Target

Crispin, Porter + Bogusky

Jr. Copywriter
Los Angeles, CA
May 2002- July 2004

Clients include: Borders, Buca di Beppo/ Vinny T’s, Disney, Aeromexico, General Mills

LA Weekly

Account Executive
Los Angeles, CA
March 2001- May 2002

•Sold ad space for West LA Businesses
•Designed creative ads as an added bonus to clients
•Realized I was in the wrong end of the advertising world and got the hell out

Rock the Vote

Field Coordinator
Los Angeles, CA
August 2000- January 2001

•Organized and promoted 20 shows in 14 cities in 6 weeks
•Wrote and maintained a brilliantly written and critically acclaimed Tour Journal on the RTV website.
•Appeared as a featured guest on CNN’s “Talk Back Live,” representing Rock the Vote, artfully articulating the youth vote point of view.

 

Education

Book Shop 2002-2004
Los Angeles, CA

Art Center 2004
“The Language of Advertising” Course

Reed College                                        Herzen University
Portland, OR                                        St.Petersburg, Russia
B.A. Russian Literature, Language                   Intensive Language Study
May 2000                                            Winter 1998 (brrrrr!)

 

Other Things

portlandbymouth.blogspot.com, 20 years classical piano study. Russian, Spanish (rusty, but good). Learning Hebrew, Portuguese.