Katherine Stanford

Email address: 
katherine@katherinestanford.com
Location:
Tallahassee, FL

Website:
www.katherinestanford.com
LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/authorkatherinebell/

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Relevant Work Experience

Education

08/2023 – 12/2025
Tallahassee | Florida
Specialist of Information
(Specialist of Library & Information Science)
Certificates in User Services & Information Architecture

Florida State University
GPA: 4.00
Coursework: International & Comparative Librarianship, Introduction to Reference Services, Introduction to Information Architecture, Digital Media: Concepts and Production

08/2020 – 12/2022
Tallahassee | Florida

Master of Science, Information
(Master of Library & Information Science)

Florida State University
GPA: 3.98
Coursework: Digital Libraries, Introduction to Information Technology, Information Organization, Government Information, Research in Information Studies, Usability Analysis, Storytelling for Information Professionals, Introduction to Information Policy, Cataloging & Classification, Collection Development & Management, Museum Informatics.

01/2009 – 04/2011
Tallahassee | Florida

Graduate Certificate, Editing & Publishing

Florida State University
Coursework: Line-Editing, Copy Editing, Electronic Editing, Editing & Designing Newsletters, Magazine Culture.

08/1998 – 05/2002
Americus | Georgia

Bachelor of Arts in English
Minor, Sociology

Georgia Southwestern State University

GPA: 3.14

Selected Coursework: Advanced Grammar, Professional Writing, Creative Writing, Technical Writing, Advanced Composition.

Publications

Journal Publications

Books

Skills

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams)
Canva
Social Media Management (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, etc.)
Google Drive
DocuSign
Remote Work Tools (Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Discord, etc.)
WordPress
Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, Premiere)
MailChimp
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
NotebookLM
Notion

Professional Training

LinkedIn Learning

  • A Content Marketer’s Guide to ChatGPT (November 2025)
    How to use ChatGPT to generate and refine content topics and ideas, outline content more efficiently, and identify coverage gaps.
  • Creating a Communications Strategy (September 2025)
    How to provide a focus, with a clear goal and roadmap for how to best get your message to your target audience and ensure that your messages are memorable and move people to action.
  • Google Analytics 4 (GA4) Essential Training (July 2023)
    How to use Google Analytics to measure traffic, conversions, ad performance and ROI, and to identify how people use your website. 
  • Crisis Communication (May 2023)
    How to prepare an organization for crisis communication response.
  • Marketing Tools: Social Media (May 2023)
    Learning new tools for social media automation & analysis.
  • SEO Foundations (April 2023)
    Implementing optimation strategies & techniques to increase search engine optimization & keyword research. How to plan for a long-term SEO strategy, e-commerce, mobile audience, & local search.
  • Learning DocuSign (December 2017)
    Creating, distributing, & managing documents requiring electronic signatures. Monitoring documents in pending status, storing & managing fully executed files, & declining inappropriate documents. Used as launching platform to learn how to make templates & teach others the platform.

Florida State University Training

  • FERPA Family Education Rights (Renewed November 2025)
    Gaining and renewing an understanding of the Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act
  • Active Threat Response (August 2025)
    Understanding and applying the Run, Hide, Fight strategy to be used in active threats on campus. (Post-2nd FSU Shooting.)
  • Excel Basic and Intermediate (Renewed August 2023)
    Basic and intermediate uses of Excel, including XLookup, Pivot tables, and more.
  • Bridging Cultures I-IV (February – April 2023)
    Learning different styles of conflict communication and resolution within a global context. 
  • PowerBI (September 2022)
    Learning to develop new pages & applying filters to limit between pages in the dashboard, including how to make calculations using visualizations & how to sort axes & legends using menus.
  • Purchasing Card (P-Card), April 2020 (Renewed March 2023)
    Proper use & allowable purchase of company purchasing card. Learning how to use in-house purchasing software.
  • Travel Card (T-Card), October 2020
    Proper use and allowable purchases on company travel card. Processing company travel in Concur system.

Languages

Languages spoken, either through classroom learning or Duolingo. 

English
Native Speaker
French
CEFR B1
Swedish
Dutch

Professional Organizations

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2023-present
Management and Marketing user group
American Library Association (ALA), 2022-present
Government Document Roundtable (GODORT) group member

Special Library Association (SLA)/Association For Information Science And Technology (Asis&T), 2022-present
Florida Library Association (FLA), 2022-present

Interests

Writing
Photography
Reading
Music
Hiking
Travel
My cats
Fountain pens