Professional Experience
A mature, established freelance writer, I've covered food culture and food politics, home cooking and fine dining, mental health and illness, health and fitness, authors and books, crime and corrections, gardens and wildlife refuges, aging, parenting, education and the joys of being a lifelong learner. I'm a strong researcher with an ability to make complex issues reader-friendly. For ten years, I wrote an award-winning personal column on growing up while raising four children as a single working mom.
Expertise
Book Author
5 Years
Editor
15 Years
Writer
18 Years
Specialty
Arts & Humanities
10 Years
Books & Literature
14 Years
Food
10 Years
Industries
Academia Teaching
5 Years
Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
10 Years
Newspaper - Local/Regional
18 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
14 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
saveur (1-2), colorado springs independent (10+), texas highways magazine (1-2)
Other Work History
Editor, Colorado Springs Independent, 9 years. Contributing Editor, Colorado Springs Independent, 5 years. Adjunct instructor, community college, 3 years
Computer Skills
MS Word, OS 10
Equipment
iBook with iPhoto and many extras; digital camera; audio recorder
References
Diane Alters, Managing Editor, Colorado Independent, coloradoindependent.com; Eric Schlosser, ericschlosser@me.com;
Awards
• First Prize, Best Feature Writing, 2000 and 2001, National Education Writers Association
• PASS Award, 2001, from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency
• Colorado Society of Professional Journalists, 2000: First Place Awards for Best Feature Writing, Best Education Writing and Best Personal Column
• Colorado Society of Professional Journalists, 2001: Second Place Awards for Food Feature Writing and Feature Writing
• Colorado Society of Professional Journalists, 2003, First Place Award for Education Writing
• PASS Award 2005, National Council on Crime and Delinquency
• Colorado Society of Professional Journalists, 2005, First Place, Best Food Coverage
• 2001 Fellow, The Center for Child and Family Policy, University of Maryland School of Journalism
• The Dart Center, University of Washington, 2001 Dart Fellowship to reward and encourage responsible reporting on violent and traumatic events.
Associations
The Dart Society, ASJA, Authors Guild
