Theresa Meeker

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Theresa Meeker Pickett is an American content creator.

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Theresa Meeker Pickett
Born
Theresa Meeker
Education

Written Content Creation

In 2010, Theresa began writing for magazines and websites. In 2013, she started a mom blog that featured interviews with celebrities, including Jeff Kinney, Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina, Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, and Edward James Olmos. [1] In 2019, Febreze selected her as a brand ambassador.

In 2023, she became the Marketing Content & Communications Manager with Visit Howard County, Maryland. She manages the writing of the county's tourism blog and various advertising media buys.

Video Content Creation

In 2020, Theresa created the most popular and highly rated American Girl online camp for children during the pandemic using the Outschool platform. 645 elementary school students made original short films under her guidance and debuted them at a virtual red-carpet premiere celebration. As part of the curriculum that she created, she published My Doll Journal and Filmmaking Notebook, which guided children through the filmmaking process.

Since her daughters were homeschooling and virtual schooling during that time, they went through her curriculum multiple times. She received Thanks credits on the films that they wrote, directed, edited, and acted in because of her constructive feedback during classtime.

In 2009, Theresa acted in and produced the short film Look , which won awards in the Accolade Competition, Best Shorts Competition, California Film Awards, Honolulu Film Awards and two awards in the Los Angeles Movie Awards. Look received a 4-star review from Film Threat. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

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