about
JOHN CURRIE
Los Angeles, CA
SPECIALTIES
Full-Stack Social Content Production
Social & Brand Strategy
Platform-Native Campaign Design
UGC + Influencer Management
Community Development
I build systems that tell stories - and stories that build systems.
From long-distance cycling routes to shortform video series, my work lives at the intersection of endurance, narrative design, and community. Years spent pushing into the outer edges of “Type 2 fun” - trail running, bikepacking, and thru-hiking - have shaped how I approach content: methodical, adaptive, and rooted in experience. Not spectacle for its own sake, but signal through the noise.
As a full-stack social strategist and content creator, I’ve launched digital ecosystems that span editorial, influencer, and brand verticals - but I’m most interested in where niche becomes necessary. Where obscure passions unlock shared language. Where weird is valuable.
My work spans both self-directed field projects and collaborations with established brands and organizations, operating at scales where narrative decisions materially shape audience trust, platform growth, and long-term cultural signal.
I see storytelling not just as performance, but as a form of mapping: through terrain, through memory, through systems that hold meaning.
selected work history
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Visual storytelling through endurance, terrain, and memory - a self-produced, self-propelled narrative practice.
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Directed cross-platform brand storytelling and UGC strategy for a legacy utility brand, building repeatable influencer systems that balanced reach, trust, and long-term brand signal.
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Built and operated a high-volume social storytelling engine in the self-defense and EDC space, where clarity, timing, and audience literacy were as critical as reach.
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Advised on community engagement and digital strategy for a highly scrutinized scientific research organization, leading a communications overhaul designed to reestablish legitimacy, coordinate interdisciplinary stakeholders, and responsibly scale public-facing visibility.
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Designed and sustained immersive narrative systems for live, terrain-based simulation events, shaping both in-field experience and long-tail digital storytelling for a highly committed community over more than a decade.
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Independent project and advisory work supporting advocacy, cultural, and research-oriented organizations. Scope typically spans narrative framing, campaign architecture, and execution across editorial and social channels for initiatives that resist simple or commercial storytelling.