Writing
Ivan Young has written professionally for over 20 years and has published web content, blogs, academic material, essays, fiction, and poetry. Click the images to read full text.
Sixpence Nebraska Blog Post
Here’s a sentence you wouldn’t expect to hear in an early childhood setting: “The kids’ favorite thing is kohlrabi. ‘The weird potatoes,’ they call them.” It is, nonetheless, what The Valley Child Development Center’s Executive Director Beth Fischer says of the children who attend the program. She goes on to add, “It’s nothing to see these kids walking with a green pepper while picking tomatoes, and they just eat it raw. They’ll eat raw green beans, cucumbers. They love it!”
Writing and Editing
As well as writing, Ivan Young has worked as an editor in various capacities from Senior Production Editor for a 67-journal team at Haworth press to freelance editor for University of South Carolina Press and the Naval Institute Press. Click the images to read full text.
Sixpence Biennial Report
Rewrote and edited a 26-page biennial report for the Nebraska State Legislature down to 14 pages. Click on the image to see the full report.
My Projects
Artimus Robotics Blog Post
Yes, it sounds like something from Back to the Future or an episode of Star Trek, and it may not be too far off. Imagine a home where the windows sense the ambient temperature and humidity and open or close automatically based on your desired comfort levels. This, however, is not the stuff of science fiction, but technology that exists today thanks to a device called a linear actuator.
Academic Writing Sample
Essay entitled "Walking Tall or Walking Dead?: The American Cowboy in the Zombie Apocalypse" published in Dawn Keetley's collection We're All Infected: The Walking Dead and the Fate of the Human. Click image to read the essay.
The Agency Blog Post
If you’ve ever had a friend promise you an outing where you’d catch a ton of fish, you probably wrote it off as an old-fashioned fish tale. But when it comes to the waters of Los Cabos you shouldn’t make that assumption. Just ask angler Richard Biehl who came close to the mark in 2011 fishing off the shores of Cabo San Lucas when he caught a 1,213-pound blue marlin. That’s right, nearly two-thirds of a ton off of one fish!
Enewsletter Sample
Web Design
Ivan Young has designed or rebuilt websites for Nebraska Children and Families Foundation initiatives to drive higher traffic, more engagement, and longer time spent on site. Click on images to visit the sites.
Nebraska Growing Readers
Nebraska Growing Readers began in October of 2023, and in March of 2024 Ivan Young built the initiative's website. In less than a year, the site garnered over 10,000 page views and was leveraged to build an enewsletter base of over 800 constituents.
Sixpence Early Learning Fund
In 2023, Ivan Young was asked to overhaul the Sixpence website. In the year following the significant rebuild, site visitors increased by 32% and content views increased by 35%.
Promotional Materials
Ivan Young has produced fliers, power points, brochures, reports, social media, and more. He is comfortable working with Adobe Suites (InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere Rush), Microsoft Office, Canva, Sprout Social, Wordpress, Firespring, Bloomerang, Bitly, and other production programs. Click on sample documents below to enlarge.
Digital Library Flier
Writers Workshop Ad
Kindergarten Promotional
