Hi. I'm Megan Branch.
I live in New York City. I like sunshine.
My interests are broad. They include: social media, publicity, books, publishing, parties, music, community-building festivals, events, gatherings, and introducing you to the things and people that you'll love.
Latest checkin
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@StyleCaster Media Group LLC (49 W 27th St.)13 hours ago in New York, NY
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@StyleCaster Media Group LLC (49 W 27th St.)13 hours ago
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@Pecan (387 Amsterdam Avenue)38 hours ago
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@Good Enough To Eat (483 Amsterdam Ave)4 days ago
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@Best Cellars (2246 Broadway)5 days ago
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@Luke's Lobster (426 Amsterdam Ave)6 days ago
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@Sprinkles Cupcakes (780 Lexington Ave.)2 weeks ago
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@NYU Medical Center Emergency Department (580 First Avenue)2 weeks ago
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@Once Upon a Tart (135 Sullivan St)3 weeks ago
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@Fordham University - Rose Hill (441 E Fordham Rd)3 weeks ago
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@Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) (10 Toler Pl.)3 weeks ago
Posts
Someone just LEFT this on the giveaway table at work. Joan’s coming home with me tonight. (Taken with instagram)
Start watching Grey’s, end up in an ambulance a day later. What is my life? (Taken with instagram)
My grandma’s going to be too busy to text me happy birthday tomorrow. Lol. What? (Taken with instagram)
Audio
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jakefogelnest: Whitney Houston’s isolated vocal track on “How Will I Know.”314420 plays
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thirdworldmelodies: internetvirus: naturalprairie: “Chicago” by Sufjan Stevens and “Clocks” by Coldplay played over each other. Jesus Christ. I’m going to cry. How even is this so beautiful. Too many feelings.246390 plays
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jordancardinale: vondell-swain: Ke$ha ft. Nigel Thornberry | Blarghgh Blarghgh Blarghgh this is how I spent my evening download link132451 plays
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theimpactreport: The Impact Report: Andre Banks Andre Banks is the co-founder of AllOut.Org, a group fighting for global equality for the LGBT community. It’s a young group, but with more than a half million members around the world they already count the shelving of the so-called “kill the gay” bill in Uganda last month as their first victory. With a possible vote in Albany this week on gay marriage, who better than Andre to talk about what’s it like to argue with people who know they have God on their side? Talk about making an impact…..that’s this week’s Impact Report with Katherine Lanpher. Take a listen and then check out the group at www.allout.org.120 plays
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I always need this Belgian girls’ choir. coketalk: Use Somebody - Scala & Kolacny Brothers You know what this rainy day needs? A Belgian girls choir.5581 plays
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thelaurenproject: bestrooftalkever: Jonathan Richman - “Springtime In New York” /oblig. SO SO NECESSARY331 plays
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The Luckiest | Ben Folds I don’t get many things right the first time In fact, I am told that a lot Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls Brought me here380 plays
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fullfledgedpatronus: Just press play.10 plays
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coketalk: Introducing the Business, Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. I like to envision Kanye West sitting in a wingback chair in front of a speaker blasting this track, weeping into a hankerchief like Salieri listening to Mozart.3285 plays
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I’m in love. shiningstar: channel-z:badpop: Miley Cyrus - “Party in the U.S.A.” The tires of the landing gear hit tarmac with a jolt and squeal. The girl wakes up from a fitful sleep. This is it: LAX. Stepping out of the airplane into the open smog, the sunny air beating down on her, the girl wonders if she is still dreaming. She’s not that far from everyone she left behind in Nahsville, but feels further than she ever thought she could possibly ever be. In a cab: driving past the Hollywood sign, the capitol records building, Mann’s Chinese. The beauty of the rich and powerful, the pathos of the lost and destitute present themselves across her eyes like a macabre film strip as the taxi continues it’s journey. The girl’s pulse quickens. She feels incredibly trapped and overpowered. Will this work out? Has she done the right thing by making this move? There is nothing but potential success and failure and it all starts right here. She could cut her losses and buy a plane ticket back to Nashville tomorrow. No harm done. She’d just have to go home and tell everyone that she couldn’t hack it, the pressure was too much for her. Her thoughts become cyclical and she can’t deal. She needs to get out of the cab, run away, but to where? Why did she leave her old life behind? How could she be such a stupid idiot to think she could deal with an entirely new way to exist in the world? There is a click from the front seat and the cab’s radio starts playing. Jay-Z. The girl is no longer in the cab but above it. She speeds across the sky an infinite number of miles-per-hour. In her mind, or maybe in reality (who knows and is it important?) she sees the entire city sprawled out in front of her. Butterflies fly away. She’s back in the cab. She’s nodding her head. Her hips jiggle slightly in her seat. For three and a half minutes, she is everywhere and nowhere. She thinks to herself that whatever the outcome of this new journey, she will be OK. Later. A Club. A Party. Her first one in this new city. All eyes on the girl. Judgment everywhere. The girl feels ashamed of everything that makes her comfortable, her loose jeans, the chuck taylors she wears with the laces too long. She once again misses her friends, her family, her boyfriend. She remembers Nashville house parties that seem so long ago, before she tried to transform herself into a brand that can be sold, a product that no household can be without. Will anyone ever think that she is the person that she sees herself to be in her mind? Then the DJ slides the fader on his turntable. The beats start matching to Britney. The girl is 12 again, in her room with her best friend making up a dance routine and lip syncing. She jumps up and down on her bed and uses a hairbrush for a microphone. All at once she is twelve and she is eighteen. She puts her hands up, nods her head, moves her hips. She dances like she’s not being stared at by everyone and with reckless abandon. She is in her bedroom, she is in the club. She closes her eyes and sees bright colors. She brings her tongue to her lips and tastes her peach-flavored lip gloss. Her arms wrap around her body, hugging herself. She knows she’ll survive this change in her life. She will be strong. She will carry herself through three-and-a-half minutes at a time, with her strength, her memories, her music. She’ll deal. It’s a party in the U.S.A. Amazing.3160 plays
Updates
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@patooties @monasterOH YES P TOO!
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Thank God for free sunglasses.
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@monasterOH OBVIOUSLY! When is that? <3
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#storyofadulthood RT @suchadilemma: 20% of my paycheck for taxes??? I feel like this is a bad dream.
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@HunterWriteConf I LOVE DESSERTS! There's also a boozy bun place right next to Puddin (Jane's, possibly?) that I haven't tried yet.
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@HunterWriteConf @MissManhattanNY LOVE THAT PLACE!
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@HunterWriteConf Yes, I've only been once but I am OBSESSED.
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I would love some pudding.
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Why do $300 + tshirts even exist?
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@patooties You can have some of mine. LITERALLY UP TO MY EARS.
Profile
Summary
I see the big picture and connect the dots.
Specialties: Writing, editing, event planning and coordination, social media, public relations, community management, arts, sales, stage management, non-profits, digital media, Tumblr, Twitter, Wordpress, Blogger
Experience
- Aug 2011 - PresentExperience Producer / StyleCaster+PR/Events Support including: Party Planning + Event Management (from RSVP to day-of); Social Media + PR Contact idea pitching +Runway Styling + Backstage (Raise Cache with Chloe + Isabel) +Recruiting/Hiring Interns; Managing and developing the intern program semester-by-semester including drafting a long-term on-campus recruiting events plan (beginning March 2012) +Contributing writer: Pitching, editing, and writing stories for StyleCaster.com +Assist the CEO and President: calendar and meeting management, travel arrangements (including overseas and West Coast coordination); point of contact for all incoming communication
- Oct 2011 - PresentFreelance Community Manager / Studio Spirito
- Oct 2011 - PresentSocial Media Consultant / Bowery Poetry Club
- Jun 2010 - PresentCommunications Specialist / Bernard Nickels & AssociatesFirst point of contact for fast-paced incoming inquiries, provided training for incoming Social Media Manager on Twitter and Facebook; Twitter account management (@bernardnickels), preparation of outgoing mailings and deposits.
- Mar 2011 - PresentAudience Development Intern / Time Out New YorkConducted research on web-based magazine subscription banners and developed an online subscription banner plan that was presented at departmental meetings; brainstormed social media suggestions with department members; worked on hotel subscriptions--sending out contracts, inputting circulation data into Excel, and making follow-up phone calls for Time Out NY and Time Out Kids.
- Aug 2010 - PresentFreelance Publicist / Runaway DorothyAlt-country band from North Carolina, currently based in NYC. Their most recent appearance was on Barnes & Noble's Upstairs at the Square series alongside Per Petterson. See what Runaway Dorothy is up to at www.runawaydorothy.com or twitter.com/runawaydorothy.
- Jul 2010 - PresentWorkshop Assistant / Girls Write NowLed small groups of high school girls in essay writing, reading, and revision as part of GWN's summer college readiness workshop program.
- Jun 2009 - PresentEvent Manager/Publicity & Marketing Intern / Happy Ending Music & Reading SeriesManaged talent backstage at Joe's Pub, ensured a smooth run-of-show, acted as liaison between front-of-house + talent + tech + waitstaff, offered fundraising and events consultation, promoted the series through online publicity (social media) and blog posts.
- Apr 2009 - PresentAssistant Producer / Literary Death Match
- Jan 2009 - PresentPublicity/Social Media Intern / Oxford University PressWrote regular posts for blog.oup.com, wrote galley letters and press releases, prepared mailings, created and managed lists on Publicity Assistant using Bacon's, sat in on publicity and editorial department meetings, and managed OUP Children's Classics publicity campaign. http://blog.oup.com/index.php?s=megan+branch
- Oct 2008 - PresentPublicist / 19th Annual International Conference on Virginia WoolfManaged social media for the conference, including blogger outreach, blog posts on the Oxford University Press blog and Blogging Woolf, and creating a Twitter hashtag; Promoted Conference guest musician, Princeton; Led tours to the Berg Collection at the NYPL; Interviewed Conference panelist, Dr. Ruth Gruber; Presented a paper as part of Fordham's undergraduate panel; Named panels and organized timeslots as well as ensuring the Conference ran smoothly for over 350 attendees.
- Jan 2008 - Present5th Grade Teacher / Peace Games
- Jan 2008 - PresentReading Tutor--2nd Grade (Gifted/Talented) / America Reads
- Jan 2005 - PresentAssistant Stage Manager / Theatre Jacksonville
Education
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2007 - 2011Fordham UniversityB.A. in EnglishActivities: 19th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf (June 2009), Stage Manager for The Vagina Monologues (2008), Writing Tutor (Summer 2010)
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2003 - 2007Douglas Anderson School of the ArtsTechnical Theatre, Performance TheatreActivities: Performance Theatre, Technical Theatre, National Society of High School Scholars, Costume Design, Scenic Painting
Additional Information
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Interests:
Events coordination and management, non-profits, fundraising, development, publicity, advertising, social media, publishing, music, writing, editing, ballet flats, hustling, literature, startups