EXPERIENCE

Shanyce Lora

Brand & Content Strategy · Social Strategy · Digital Experiences

New York, NY · heyshanyce@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/shanyce-lora · shanycelora.com

Summary

Brand and content strategist with 10+ years across comics, conventions, and scripted TV. Built the campaigns first, including New York Comic Con's always-on fandom account and a Shorty-winning Dexter campaign. Then built the systems that got campaigns shipped: an editorial engine behind a 40% engagement lift, an Airtable intranet at 90% adoption across 40 employees in three months. Designs and codes her own digital experiences. 18 convention panels, two podcasts hosted, and a decade of being in the fandoms she markets to.

Selected Work

shanycelora.com · a personal site built as a working Mac OS X desktop. Projects open as windows, the trash talks back

Blame Nostalgia Cinemas · cinemaprnt.shanycelora.com · a customizable movie ticket maker inspired by my ticket for The Dark Knight Rises. Downloads as a PNG

The Artist's Way Companion · artistsway.shanycelora.com · a 12-week local-first companion for morning pages and artist dates. No login, nothing leaves the device

calico · the design system behind the above. Documented component library, built from scratch

Experience

Independent Consultant — Brand, Content & Systems Consulting, New York, NY Jan 2026–Present
  • Assist in documenting Airtable systems for agency and enterprise clients that standardize client delivery and team workflows
  • Co-wrote 8+ guides and reference pages so teams could adopt new systems and self-serve from day one
  • Advise founders on process design, tooling decisions, and how to structure a business through growth
  • Personal Projects: Designed and built Anois, a wellness web app, end to end: product decisions, brand, copy, design, and code
NationSwell May 2022–Dec 2025

Director, Operations Enablement (Jan 2025–Dec 2025) · Chief of Staff (Mar 2023–Jan 2025) · Senior Special Projects Manager (May 2022–Mar 2023)

  • Designed the multi-channel editorial planning system behind campaigns that lifted LinkedIn and email engagement 40% in six months
  • Ran digital communications strategy across social, email, and web, including LinkedIn brand positioning, internal messaging frameworks, and editorial direction
  • Built relationships with influencers, podcast hosts, and digital creators that expanded brand reach
  • Promoted twice in under three years, from project coordination to directing organization-wide operations and communications strategy
  • Built a marketing operations dashboard combining the content pipeline, editorial calendar, approval workflows, and a date-synced publishing schedule, which let the team condense the planning calendar
  • Designed and launched NationSwell Pier, an Airtable intranet that pulled scattered PDFs, Google Drive folders, the JustWorks portal, and pinned Slack threads into a live staff directory, benefits library, document hub, and meeting archive. Reached 90% adoption across 40 employees in three months, measured by staff sign-ups, profile completion, and training attendance
  • Owned campaign and project management across marketing, communications, and operations teams, from kickoff through delivery
Showtime Inc. — Manager, Brand + Scripted, New York, NY Dec 2021–May 2022
  • Coordinated campaign execution across PR, marketing, and creative teams for 15+ talent-led activations
  • Oversaw real-time social execution for Dexter: New Blood, a campaign whose social reached 384M impressions and 15.6M engagements across Dexter handles
  • Directed in-person events and activations, converting offline audiences into online engagement
  • Developed messaging and creative assets for premiere activations, keeping brand consistent across channels and partners
Glow Social + Digital Agency — Senior Social Media Manager, New York, NY Jul 2021–Dec 2021
  • Set social strategy for the Shorty Award-winning Dexter: New Blood campaign using social listening, research, and live engagement, and helped shape the social voice
  • Managed a copywriter, ran fan giveaways and engagement, and produced weekly social reports the team used to adjust the plan
  • Led digital strategy for Showtime, WarnerMedia, YouTube, and Apple TV accounts
  • Managed campaign coordination across 5+ media and tech accounts
Independent — Social Media & Content Consultant, Twitch Creators, New York, NY Aug 2020–Jul 2021
  • Consulted with six Twitch streamers on social media strategy and channel presence
  • Designed stream assets including overlays, panels, and social graphics
  • Built and streamed my own Twitch channel, growing it from zero while consulting
Mischief Management — Senior Marketing Manager, New York, NY Mar 2019–Aug 2020
  • Owned end-to-end campaign execution for six national fan events and a podcast network
  • Wrote social copy and made creative for Con of Thrones, LeakyCon, and BroadwayCon, separate convention brands with their own fandoms
  • Led the launch of the Mischief Media podcast network and the Mischief Merch rebrand
  • Pitched a merch store when COVID hit, worked with our designer on apparel, built the store in Shopify, and started the brand's Instagram
  • Coordinated creator and influencer partnerships for the events
ReedPop — Brand Marketing Manager, New York Comic Con, New York, NY Mar 2018–Mar 2019
  • Ran NYCC's always-on fandom account, writing real-time copy, replies, and Stories with little oversight
  • Ran NYCC Updates on Facebook, some of the first NYCC videos with staff on camera, covering show-floor news
  • Created sponsored Story adventures where fans voted on my day, and showed up at midnight releases, trivia nights, and fandom meetups year-round
  • Worked with influencers and managed paid social alongside organic
Valiant Entertainment — Senior Marketing & Digital Media Manager, New York, NY Jul 2016–Mar 2018
  • Led campaign execution across five social platforms
  • Built paid social campaigns end to end and produced 20+ marketing videos

Hosting & Production

Panels: 18 convention panels, 4 as moderator, on fandom, community building, and marketing to fandoms. New York Comic Con, Mischief Management events, KCON 2018

Podcasts: hosted Jump Scare (horror) and Blame Nostalgia (film). Outlining, scripting, ad reads, and episode production

On camera: events, activations, and social

Independent content: research, scripting, shooting, and video editing for my own channels

Education

B.A., Communications and Media Studies

CUNY School of Professional Studies, 2021

Skills & Tools

Brand & Content: Brand positioning, content strategy, editorial planning, messaging architecture, social strategy, digital strategy, campaign strategy, influencer and creator partnerships, internal communications

Systems & Operations: Airtable system design, workflow design, marketing operations, content operations, end-to-end campaign management, cross-functional coordination, process improvement

Building: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, design systems, AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Cursor)

Production: Video editing, content research, scripting, podcast production, panel moderation, on-camera presenting

Platforms: Airtable, Notion, Asana, Monday.com, Jira, Google Workspace, Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Mailchimp, Canva, Adobe Creative Suite