Shannon Geis is a freelance multimedia producer and oral historian. She was born and raised in rural Nebraska and moved to New York City to attend New York University where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in journalism and politics in May 2010. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado, where she loves taking day trips to the mountains and enjoying craft beer.
Shannon has a wide range of journalism experience, including experience in public radio, local news, magazine feature writing, and copy editing. She has been published in a number of local New York City publications, including The Local-Fort Greene, The Brooklyn Paper, The West Side Spirit, and Our Town.
Shannon got her first taste of radio reporting at NET Radio, the NPR affiliate station covering most of Nebraska. As a student at NYU, she hosted a weekly news show called Earshot on WNYU, the college radio station. She finished a semester at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in December 2012, where she studied documentary radio and multimedia storytelling. She spent time working at WNYC’s Studio 360, a weekly radio show focused on creativity.
Shannon worked for Corner Media Group as the editor of several hyperlocal news sites focused on Brooklyn neighborhoods. As editor, Shannon was in charge of maintaining all aspects of editorial content. She wrote and reported on news in the area, assigned and edited freelance work, and maintained the social media presence for the news sites.
Shannon worked for the Medical Group Management Association, a national organization based in Denver that provides knowledge and tools for practice administrators and executives in the evolving healthcare environment. As a staff writer and editor, Shannon researched, wrote, and edited content for the Association’s monthly magazine, MGMA Connection, and created content for the MGMA website. She also conceived and developed MGMA Small Talk, a bi-weekly podcast featuring interviews with industry experts.
Shannon currently works for Emily Griffith Technical College, a public technical school located in Downtown Denver that focuses on Career and Technical Education. She is a content developer in the Marketing and Communications Department, where she develops robust marketing campaigns, maintains the College website, and designs flyers, brochures and other marketing collateral to promote the wide variety of programs offered at Emily Griffith.
When she’s not writing, recording, editing, or exploring, Shannon is cheering on her Nebraska Cornhuskers, immersing herself in early 20th century fiction, taste-testing whiskey cocktails or plotting her next foreign excursion.
For more information, please contact Shannon directly at shannon.geis@gmail.com.
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