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I’m motivated by food.

I trained myself to love running by planning runs that ended at restaurants. (If I gave up early, I wouldn’t just be a failure, I’d be a hungry failure.)

I know four languages and often end up speaking two at the dinner table.

I discovered the true meaning of Thanksgiving after spending it in a Scottish pub with Germans and other American expats in Berlin.

But I would never, ever steal someone’s lunch from the agency refrigerator.

Don’t believe me? Put me up to the challenge by getting in touch at hi@amychar.com.

EXPERIENCE:
Returned to my indie shop roots as a senior copywriter at Duncan Channon
San Francisco, CA, May 2024 – present

Played video games during work for “research” as a copywriter at 215 McCann
San Francisco, CA, February 2022 – March 2024

Realized I could say “I speak Deutsch and I work at Deutsch” as a copywriter at Deutsch LA
Los Angeles, CA, February 2021 – February 2022

Got a taste of the in-house life as a freelance copywriter at LinkedIn Creative Studio
San Francisco, CA, January 2021 – February 2021

Proved that time zones are a social construct as a freelance copywriter at Havas Atlanta
Atlanta, GA (remote), October 2020 – January 2021

Recovered from vitamin D deficiency as a junior copywriter at The Many
Los Angeles, CA, June 2019 – March 2020

Traded Berlin in for a Brooklyn sublet as an intern at 360i
New York, NY,  January 2019 – March 2019

Lived and breathed journalism as an arts & entertainment intern at the San Francisco Bay Guardian
San Francisco, CA, June 2014 – August 2014

RECOGNITION:
2023/U.S. Cannes Young Lions – Silver
2022/Business Insider Rising Star of Madison Avenue
2021/ADCOLOR Future
2020/ADC, Craft in Video / Animation – Silver
2019/Clio Entertainment, Television/Streaming: Partnerships & Collaboration – Gold
2019/Clio Entertainment, Television/Streaming: Consumer Products – Gold
2019/Golden Award of Montreux: Talent – Finalist

EDUCATION:
Became a reformed study abroad cliché and learned copywriting at Miami Ad School Europe
Berlin, Germany

Got eaten alive by mosquitoes and earned a B.A. in government and German at Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.

Unwittingly set myself up to become the “study abroad changed my life” cliché at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany

ET CETERA:
Peaked in high school when my graduating senior class of 650+ nominated me for “Most Likely to Write the Next New York Times Bestseller”

Native (Californian) English speaker: additional languages include German (limited working proficiency), Mandarin Chinese (conversational), and Shanghainese Chinese (fluent yet illiterate)

Finalist in the 2015 D.C. Student Arts Journalism Challenge