Professional Experience
FROM INSPIRATION TO EXECUTION -- Versatile, well-published freelance writer and editor. Travel writing, personalities, home and garden, lifestyles, and health: life in Mexico, fine architecture, food and wine, antiques, acupuncture and celebrities. Editing from concept to final proof, factchecking and copyediting.
Expertise
Copy Editor
10 Years
Editor
8 Years
Writer
15 Years
Specialty
Lifestyle
15 Years
Home & Garden
15 Years
Travel
15 Years
Industries
Magazine - Local/Regional magazines
5 Years
Newspaper - Local/Regional
10 Years
PR (in-house) - Small to mid-sized corp. clients
14 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
19 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Palm Springs Life Magazine (10+), The Oregonian daily newspaper (10+), The Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper (6-10), Thrive Magazine, Palm Springs, CA (6-10), DK Eyewitness Travel Guides (6-10)
Other Work History
Palm Springs Life Magazine/Senior Editor
Marylhurst University, Adjunct Prof. in online PR certificate program
City of Palm Springs, Tourism PR Director
Ritz-Carlton, Rancho Mirage, PR Director
Foreign Language Skills
Spanish
Computer Skills
Office Suite applications, OS 10.9.5
Equipment
Macbook laptop, Canon digital camera, audio recorder
Awards
Mazatlan Hotel Association Golden Deer for best international travel feature
