About Emma Paidra
Work
Experience
June 2024-Present
Content and Editorial Intern, Slightly Smarter
Interned for Slightly Smarter, a startup focussed on sharing essential ideas from top books.
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Edited email newsletters detailing key insights from thought-provoking books.
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Maintained the Slightly Smarter brand voice.
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Contributed to the process of selecting high-quality books that would benefit from a newsletter feature.
October 2020-August 2023
Contributing Writer, Shameless Magazine, Broken Pencil Magazine and Hey Alma
Wrote several feature stories for Shameless, a feminist magazine based in Toronto, and Hey
Alma, an online publication on Jewish and feminist issues.
• Stories for Shameless include “How Moose Hide Campaign Founder Raven Lacerte is
Spreading Medicine Across Canada,” a profile of Canadian activist Raven Lacerte,
who works to spread awareness of issues faced by Indigenous women in Canada.
• Stories for Hey Alma include “The Mitzvah of Fostering a Dog,” which ties the act of
dog fostering to the Jewish value of “welcoming the stranger.”
• Wrote reviews of Canadian books for Broken Pencil Magazine.
March 2021-January 2023
News Writer, Beyond Women’s Sports and The Next Hoops, remote
Covered WNBA team the New York Liberty for online women’s sports publications BWS.
For TNH, wrote stories off press WNBA press-release statements.
Education
September 2023-May 2024
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Graduated May 2024.
M.S. Journalism, with training in audio and video reporting.
Highlights include:
• Reported the divisive impact of book bans throughout the US for a 900-word capstone
story. Featured a quote from acclaimed author Judy Blume.
• Developed shooting and editing skills for short videos with Adobe Premiere.
• Co-produced a short documentary about pigeon rescuers in New York City.
• Masters project: produced 4500-word story about community-based approaches to
treating chronic mental illness under the supervision of Paula Span.
September 2018-June 2022
University of Toronto
Graduated June 2022.
Bachelor of Arts in English Literature,
2021 and 2022 Robert Brandeis Award for high standing in the Humanities.
Skills
& Expertise
- Strong Writing & Editing
- Videography
- Multimedia Storytelling
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Interviewing & Research