Hayley Ross

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Resume and Cover Letter

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HAYLEY ROSS
Education

HAYLEY ROSS

Ohio University, Athens OH

Date

Work Experience

Organizations

Employers Name
Title
Organization Name
Street Address
City, State, Zip Code

Ohio University Dance Division, Athens OH

Delta Zeta Omicron Gamma Chapter, Athens OH

Bachelor of Science in Journalism News and Information track

Bachelor of Arts in Dance
Cumulative GPA: 3.95
Graduation: May 2016 (Expected)

Administration Intern | Sept. 2014Present

Create press packets and advertisements for Dance
Division concerts and classes
Interview guest artists, faculty, students and alumni
for the College of Fine Arts website, social media and
alumni database

The Chautauquan Daily, Chautauqua NY

Dance Beat Reporter | June 2015Aug. 2015

Wrote articles for the daily newspaper about the
Charlotte Ballet in residence and the Chautauqua
School of Dance
Interviewed sources and transcribed interviews

OhioDance, Columbus OH

Intern | May 2014Present

Write stories and press releases about upcoming events
Update social media accounts
Assist with administration during OhioDance Festivals

Factory Street Dance Studio, Athens OH

Dance Instructor | Aug. 2015Present

Teach ballet class to students ages 8-12
Choreograph pieces for annual concerts

Ohio University Learning Communities,

Athens OH

Learning Community Leader | Aug. 2015Present

Plan and organize events for first year students

Serve as teaching assistant to professor

CityScene Media Group, Columbus OH

Editorial Intern | May 2013 Aug. 2013

Wrote and edited content published in CityScene
Magazine, Pickerington Magazine, Westerville
Magazine, Healthy New Albany Magazine, Tri-Village
Magazine, and Dublin Life Magazine and online

Copy edited and fact checked materials

Alumni Relations Chairman | Sept. 2012Present

Plan and organize events for alumni
create a newsletter documenting chapter events
Submit content to Delta Zetas national publication

Advocacy, Training, Careers, Opportunities (ATCO),

Athens OH
Movement Class Volunteer | Sept. 2014Present
Teach weekly movement classes to members of the
community with disabilities

360 Shale Ridge Court, Powell OH 43065

614-572-9249
hayleyross7@gmail.com
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Dear Employers Name,

(First paragraph) Introduce yourself. Tell the reader why you are writing, the specific position for which you
are applying, and how you heard about the opening. Briefly express why you are interested in the position, or
why you are applying to this company in particular. If you are inquiring about jobs in general, and if no specific
opening exists, indicate your interest in career opportunities in your desired field. You may also find it helpful to
write a thesis statement as your final sentence, which will guide the reader through the rest of your document.

The Movement Organization, Athens OH

(Second paragraph) Highlight your education or skills. This could mean including information on your major,
research projects, relevant coursework, study abroad, or other Georgetown experiences. Be sure to connect these
highlights to the position you are applying for. Keep in mind, these do not have to be content matches but can
include skills such as communication, writing, critical analysis, quantitative skills, or any other skills you think
are relevant. You need not focus this entire paragraph on your education. If it makes more sense to highlight
your professional accomplishments or other activities because they will make you a stronger candidate, then do
so.

Achievements and Certificates

(Third paragraph) Highlight your professional accomplishments. This includes paid positions, internships,
volunteer work, extracurricular activities, athletics, or anything else that you think is relevant to the position.
Look at your resume, and choose three or four achievements that demonstrate skills the employer is looking for.
Look back at the job description for key terms, and ask yourself where you have demonstrated that qualification
or skill.

The Odyssey, Athens OH

Editor-in-Chief Ohio University Campus | June 2015Present

Write weekly articles published online
Manage and recruit staff members
Edit articles submitted by staff writers
Member | Sept. 2012Present
Plan and organize events, classes, performances and trips
Choreograph and perform in annual concert
served in leadership roles such as Vice President,
Treasurer, and Stage Manager w

Intermediate Mat Pilates Certification by Power Pilates

Ohio University Deans List
National Scholastic Press Association Journalism Honor
Roll

Skills

InDesign
Final Cut Pro
Microsoft Office Suite
Social Media Platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
Wordpress, LinkedIn)

(Fourth paragraph) The closing. Refer the reader to your enclosed or attached resume. Request an interview
if appropriate and give a final reason or summary statement about why the employer should consider you as a
candidate. You may include a statement saying you will follow up with the employer within a specific timeframe,
unless they requested that you not contact them. Always thank the employer for considering you for the
position.
Sincerely,
Hayley Ross

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

2015 OhioDance Spring Festival Features Guest Artist Liz Lerman

2015 OhioDance Spring Festival Features Guest Artist Liz Lerman
COLUMBUS (April 15, 2014) Nationally recognized artist, Liz Lerman, will serve as a guest artist for the
annual OhioDance Spring Festival and Conference at BalletMet in Columbus on April 24-26, 2015.
Lermans schedule of events includes:
April 24, 4:30-6 p.m. Hiking the Horizantal book reading and
signing. Books will be available at the signing.
April 25, 9:30-11 a.m. Liz Lerman master class focused on choreographic tools
April 25, 11:45 a.m. -12:45 p.m. guest speaker after the Luncheon
Liz Lerman is a choreographer, performer, writer, educator and speaker, and the recipient of numerous
honors, including a 2002 MacArthur Genius Grant Fellowship and a 2011 United States Artists Ford Fellowship in Dance. A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process to various publics from shipbuilders
to physicists, construction workers to ballerinas, resulting in both research and outcomes that are participatory, relevant, urgent, and usable by others.
She founded Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976 and cultivated the companys unique multi-generational ensemble into a leading force in contemporary dance until 2011. She was an artist-in-residence and
visiting lecturer at Harvard University in fall of 2011, and continues to teach nationally and internationally. Her collection of essays, Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer, was published in
2011 by Wesleyan University Press and will be available in paperback in 2014.
All events take place at the Ballet Met studios and performance space at 322 Mt. Vernon Ave, Columbus,
OH 43215. Ballet Met is a proud co-sponsor of the OhioDance Festival.

COLUMBUS (April 15, 2014) Nationally recognized artist, Liz Lerman, will serve as a guest artist
for the annual OhioDance Spring Festival and Conference at BalletMet in Columbus on April 24-26,
2015.
Lermans schedule of events includes:
April 24, 4:30-6 p.m. Hiking the Horizantal book reading and signing. Books will be available
at the signing.
April 25, 9:30-11 a.m. Liz Lerman master class focused on choreographic tools
April 25, 11:45 a.m. -12:45 p.m. guest speaker after the Luncheon
Liz Lerman is a choreographer, performer, writer, educator and speaker, and the recipient of numerous honors, including a 2002 MacArthur Genius Grant Fellowship and a 2011 United States Artists Ford Fellowship in Dance. A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process to various publics
from shipbuilders to physicists, construction workers to ballerinas, resulting in both research and
outcomes that are participatory, relevant, urgent, and usable by others.
She founded Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976 and cultivated the companys unique multi-generational ensemble into a leading force in contemporary dance until 2011. She was an artist-in-residence and visiting lecturer at Harvard University in fall of 2011, and continues to teach nationally
and internationally. Her collection of essays, Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer, was published in 2011 by Wesleyan University Press and will be available in paperback in
2014.
All events take place at the Ballet Met studios and performance space at 322 Mt. Vernon Ave, Columbus, OH 43215. Ballet Met is a proud co-sponsor of the OhioDance Festival.

OhioDance is a statewide organization that inclusively supports the diverse and vibrant practice of dance.
The OhioDance Festival and Conference brings together artists of all ages and career level to network,
learn, share new ideas, and make resources available statewide to achieve success in a career as a professional dancer in the state of Ohio.

OhioDance is a statewide organization that inclusively supports the diverse and vibrant practice of
dance. The OhioDance Festival and Conference brings together artists of all ages and career level
to network, learn, share new ideas, and make resources available statewide to achieve success in a
career as a professional dancer in the state of Ohio.

OhioDance is supported through grants from The Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus Arts Council, The
Columbus Foundation, Puffin Foundation West, Ltd., Capezio, Inc., BalletMakers Dance Foundation, and
NiSource. For more information visit: http://ohiodance.org/festival/

OhioDance is supported through grants from The Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus Arts Council, The Columbus Foundation, Puffin Foundation West, Ltd., Capezio, Inc., BalletMakers Dance
Foundation, and NiSource. For more information visit: http://ohiodance.org/festival/

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Contact:
Jane DAngelo
OhioDance
jane@ohiodance.org
614-224-2913

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Contact:
Jane DAngelo
OhioDance
jane@ohiodance.org
614-224-2913

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Ohio University
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Thursday, 7 July, 79 pm

Join us to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the College of Fine

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With the help of A.I., Americas most famous

doll tries to fulfill a timeless dream
convincing little girls that shes a real
friend. What will happen if they believe her?

Fantastic, Barbie said. I just know were going to be great friends.

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October 2015

At one point,
Barbies voice
got serious. I
was wondering
if I could get
your advice on
something,
Barbie asked.
The doll
explained that she and her friend
Teresa had argued and werent
speaking. I really miss her, but
I dont know what to say to her
now, Barbie said. What should
I do?

she says could

influence how kids

define being a girl.

Their exchange was the

All that doll talk has always
fulfillment of an ancient dream:
been a kind of party trick,
Since there have been toys, we
executed with hidden record
have wanted them to speak to
players, cassette tapes or
us. Inventors in the mid-1800s,
digital chips. But in the past
deploying bellows in place
five years, breakthroughs
of human lungs and reeds to
in artificial intelligence and
simulate vocal cords, managed
speech recognition have
to get dolls to say short words
given the devices around
like papa. Thomas Edisons first
us smartphones, computers,
idea for commercializing his new
cars the ability to engage
phonograph invention was to
in something approaching
make Dolls speak sing cry, as
conversation, by listening to
he wrote in a notebook entry
users and generating intelligent
in 1877. In the 20th century, toy
responses to their queries.
makers scored with products like
Apples Siri and Microsofts
Dolly Rekord, who spoke nursery
Cortana are still far from the
rhymes in the 1920s; Chatty
science-fiction promise of
Cathy, a 1959 release from Mattel
Samantha from the movie
whose 11 phrases included I
Her. But as conversational
love you; and Teddy Ruxpin, a
technology improves, it may one
mid-1980s stuffed bear whose
day rival keyboards and touch
mouth and eyes moved as he told screens as our primary means of
stories. Even Barbie gained her
communicating with computers
voice in 1968 with a pull string
according to Apple, Siri already
that activated eight short phrases. handles more than a billion

Ohio Today

spoken requests per week. With

such technology widely available,
it was inevitable that artificial
intelligence for children would
arrive, too, and it is doing so most
prominently in the pink, perky
form of Mattels Hello Barbie.
Produced in collaboration with
ToyTalk, a San Francisco-based
company specializing in artificial
intelligence, the doll is scheduled
to be released in November
with the intention of hitting the
lucrative $6 billion holiday
toy market.
For adults, this new wave of
everyday A.I. is nowhere near
sophisticated enough to fool us
into seeing machines as fully
alive. That is, they do not come
close to passing the Turing test,
the threshold proposed in 1950
by the British computer scientist
Alan Turing, who pointed out
that imitating human intelligence

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Say Im sorry, Ariana replied.

Youre right. I should apologize,

Barbie said. Im not mad
anymore. I just want to be
friends again.
This summer, when I visited
Mattels sprawling campus
in El Segundo, a prototype
Hello Barbie is by far the most
of Hello Barbie stood in
advanced to date in a new
the middle of a glassgeneration of A.I. toys whose
topped conference
makers share the aspiration of
table, her blond tresses
Geppetto: to persuade children
parted on the right and
that their toys are alive or, at
cascading down to
any rate, are something more
her left shoulder. She
than inanimate. At Arianas
looked like your basic
product-testing session, which
Barbie, but Aslan
took place in May at Mattels
Appleman, a lead
Imagination Center in El Segundo, product designer,
Calif., near Los Angeles, Barbie
explained that
asked her whether she would
her thighs had
like to do randomly selected
been thickened
jobs, like being a scuba instructor slightly to fit a
or a hot-air-balloon pilot. Then
rechargeable
they played a goofy chef game,
battery in
in which Ariana told a mixed-up
each one;
Barbie which ingredients went
a mini-USB
with which recipes pepperoni
charging port

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was tucked into the small of her

back.
A microphone, concealed
inside Barbies necklace, could
be activated only when a user
pushed and held down her belt
buckle. Each time, whatever
someone said to Barbie would
be recorded and transmitted via
Wi-Fi to the computer servers
of ToyTalk. Speech-recognition
software would then convert the
audio signal into a text file, which
would be analyzed. The correct
response would be chosen from
thousands of lines scripted
by ToyTalk and Mattel writers
and pushed to Hello Barbie for
playback all in less than
a second.

that the doll had too much

of a figure. Her appearance
has remained controversial.
Protesters at the 1972 Toy Fair
complained that Barbie and other
dolls encouraged girls to see
themselves solely as mannequins,
sex objects or housekeepers,
according to an account in The
New York Times.
When children reach preschool,
they begin to avidly collect
information about gender roles
what distinguishes girls from
boys, and what each gender is
supposed to say and do, says May
Ling Halim, an assistant professor
of psychology at California State
University, Long Beach, who
studies gender identity. Barbie
and other dolls are hardly the
only influences on this process,
but they may be a significant
source of gender information.
A 2006 study in the journal
Developmental Psychology
bluntly concluded that girls
exposed to Barbie reported lower
body esteem and greater desire
for a thinner body shape.

Barbie, what is your full name?

Appleman asked the doll as I

Above: Hello Barbie features microphone, speaker, and LED lights inside her
necklace. She also comes with a charger stand.
Opposite: Hello Barbie is now available in stores across the U.S.

watched. Oh, I thought you

knew, Barbie replied.
My full name is Barbara
Millicent Roberts.

PHOTO CREDIT: MATTEL

Ariana, the girl said.

PHOTO CREDIT: WWW.HAMLEYS.COM

t looked like a childs playroom: toys in cubbies, a little desk for doing
homework, a whimsical painting of a tree on the wall. A woman and
a girl entered and sat down in plump papasan chairs, facing a low
table that was partly covered by a pink tarp. The wall opposite them
was mirrored from floor to ceiling, and behind it, unseen in a darkened
room, a half-dozen employees of the toy company Mattel sat watching
through one-way glass. The girl, who looked about 7, wore a turquoise
sweatshirt and had her dark hair pulled back in a ponytail. The woman,
a Mattel child-testing specialist named Lindsey Lawson, had sleek dark
hair and the singsong voice of a kindergarten teacher. Microphones
hidden in the room transmitted what Lawson said next. You are going
to have a chance to play with a brand-new toy, she told the girl, who
leaned forward with her hands on her knees. Removing the pink tarp,
Lawson revealed Hello Barbie.
Yay, youre here! Barbie said eagerly. This is so exciting. Whats your
name?

The messages that

Hello Barbie will be released in November of 2016, ready to hit the shelves before the holiday season.

By James Vlahos

with the pizza, marshmallows

with the smores. Its really fun to
cook with you, Ariana said.

PHOTO CREDIT: MARK LENNIHAN / ASSOCIATED PRESS

PHOTO CREDIT: MARK LENNIHAN / ASSOCIATED PRESS

Barbie
Wants to
Get to Know
Your Child

well enough to fool a human

interlocutor was as good a
definition of intelligence as any.
But things
are different
with children,
because
children are
different.
Especially
with the very
young, it
is very hard
for them to distinguish what
is real from what is not real,
says Doris Bergen, a professor
of educational psychology at
Miami University in Ohio who
studies play. The penchant to
anthropomorphize to believe
that inanimate objects are to
some degree humanlike and alive
is in no way restricted to the
young, but children, who often
favor magical thinking over the
mundane rules of reality, have an
especially rich capacity to believe
in the unreal.

Ever since Barbie introduced

herself to the world, she has
stood at the uneasy center of
questions about the influence of
dolls on children. Unveiled at the
New York Toy Fair in 1959, she
quickly became both a cultural

flash point attacked by the

pioneering feminist Betty Friedan
and depicted by Andy Warhol
and one of the top-selling toys of
all time, with more than a billion
dolls purchased. Her stilt-like
legs, tiny waist and enormous
breasts set her apart from the
childish dolls that had reigned
until that time; in the 1950s,
before Barbie was even released,
a mother complained to Mattel
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Giving Barbie a voice only

increases her potential impact.
The messages that she says could
influence how kids define being
a girl, Halim says. An earlier
version of the doll with a much
more limited ability to speak
Teen Talk Barbie, released in
1992 enraged critics with the
utterance, Math class is tough.
The American Association of
University Women called on
Mattel to recall the doll, and the
company, apologizing, deleted
the offending line from the
computer chip.

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