Eli Scheinholtz
709 Church Street -- Ann Arbor, MI 48014 | (908) 731-1213 | eli.scheinholtz@gmail.com
Dedicated and enthusiastic student with education in politics and mass media. Extensive experience managing large-scale projects through completion. Outgoing and detail-oriented, proficient at building and maintaining professional relationships. Possess excellent written and oral communication skills.
Education
University of Michigan
B.A. in Communications Studies (Honors) & Political Science, Minor in Writing
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Thesis: “BuzzFed: How News Media Quality Affects Candidate Knowledge and Preference”
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Awards & Honors: Phi Beta Kappa & Pi Sigma Alpha inductee; James P. Chapman Memorial Scholarship recipient;
Frank and Marjorie Grace & Lola and Morris Wasserstein Award winner
Honors Summer Fellow
• Won competitive fellowship to partake in interdisciplinary cohort in pursuit of honors theses
• Prepared and distributed national survey measuring how differences in news quality affects
voters’ abilities to identify candidate issue stances and their candidate preference
Experience
Office of U.S. Senator Gary Peters
Legislative Intern
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Manage key constituent relationships for Senator as initial responder by processing over 100 constituent phone calls
and hand-written correspondence daily -
Draft memoranda and provide knowledge of federal legislation for Constituent Representatives
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Exercise discretion and maintain confidentiality in handling casework requests for constituents while communicating in a tactful,
personable, and professional manner
The Campus Agency
New York Times Senior Collegiate Representative
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Create and execute marketing initiatives to increase readership resulting in 104 new subscribers
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Survey students’ opinions of The New York Times brand to improve marketing techniques
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Promoted to assume managerial responsibility of 12 representatives at colleges across the country
Involvement
The Michigan Daily
Design Edit Staff
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Worked with Adobe Creative Suite to develop graphic designs and manage page layout
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Collaborated with News staff to create information graphics with front-page placement twice
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Served as Dayside Social Media Editor responsible for daily content development and sharing
LSA Student Government
Appointed Representative
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Elected to Majors & Minors Council as Representative for Communications Studies students
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Headed initiative to improve student research opportunities with faculty which resulted in creation of college-wide policy
recommendation to department administrators
Skills
Summary
Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite; experience with Intranet Quorum, comScore, Stata, Google Analytics
Eli M. Scheinholtz
Detroit, MI
January 2017-April 2017
Ann Arbor, MI
January 2016-April 2017
Ann Arbor, MI
September 2014-December 2016
Ann Arbor, MI
September 2013-April 2017
April 2017
GPA: 3.93/4.0
June 2016-August 2017