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Business Communications

The shifting sands of business strategy and operations captivate me. In the early days of 'local food,' I founded a farm and grass-fed beef company, selling at first at farmers' market and in nine years expanding to market branded product throughout the Upper Midwest and nationwide under private labels.

From hiring to marketing, I love the challenge of figuring stuff out, and I can teach you to produce both internal and consumer communications that people actually read:

• Business Plans, Grant-Writing, and Brand Development
• E-mail Marketing: Set-up, Content, and Scheduling
• Print, Radio, and Social Media Content
• Website Set-Up and Maintenance
• Tech Sheets, Promotional Materials, Catalogs, Fliers
• Wearables, Sponsorships & Other Visibility
• Market Research, Strategy, and Networking
• Annual Reports, Internal Shareholder Communications
• Staffing Strategy, Company Culture, SOPs
• The Usual Templates: Letterhead, business cards, etc

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​​Adventure Travel & Business Service-Work
I grew up with pretty square Midwestern ideas about professional life, but thankfully, my mind wandered. When I can, I travel abroad, exploring the cultural complexities that allow people and business to flourish. I am a PADI-certified diver,  kiteboarder, and photojournalist.

Creative Nonfiction

Award-Winning Conservation | Luther College Alumni Magazine

​At her desk in blue scrubs, her curly hair escaping from a ponytail in humid wisps, Heidi Ross ’99 swipes a hand across her brow and sits up a little straighter as her FaceTime connectivity sticks.

A minute ago she was elbow-deep in an aquarium, working alongside fellow staff at the El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center (EVACC) to disinfect the tanks that hold eight of the most critically endangered species of frogs on the planet.

​In the background, a coworker flits back and forth, walking individual frogs across the lab to a scale, recording their weights in order to separate larger adult frogs from lighter specimens....

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Kristine Kopperud (formerly Jepsen) is a writer and editor in Northeast Iowa publishing creative nonfiction and essays. Her work has won the Diana Woods Memorial Award for Creative Nonfiction at Lunch Ticket; been published in Creative Nonfiction | Sunday Short Reads, River Teeth, Hippocampus, MUTHA magazine, Literary Mama, HuffPost, Parents.com, several anthologies and more. Her chapbook, Jaw Wiring: What You Need to Know, won the Flash Nonfiction Competition at Sweet: A Literary Confection and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She's a grateful alumna of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Writer-to-Writer mentorship program and is working on a memoir at the intersection of substance and abuse.