Professional Experience
I am a freelance writer specializing in education writing. I have completed features for the Hechinger Report, which also appeared in the Nation, Christian Science Monitor and PBS News Hour online. From 2011 until it closed last summer, I was a regular writer for Scholastic Administrator and I have written regularly for Teachers College’s alumni magazine TC Today since 2006. My education writing has also appeared in Harvard's Ed Magazine.
I have more than 30 years of experience as a reporter and writer with journalistic credits ranging from The New Yorker's Goings on About Town section to stringing for U.S. News & World Report to Family Fun and the New York Law Journal. I have published personal essays in Newsday, Family Fun and Smithsonian as well as more than a dozen short stories.
For more than twenty years, I have also been a regular writer for inhouse publications at corporate clients including Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer, American Express, Deloitte and Clairol.
Total Media Industry Experience
30 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Hechinger Report (1-2), Scholastic Administrator (1-2), Scholastic Administrator (10+), Teacher's College Alumni Magazine (10+), CM (3-5), Columbia Dental Magazine (1-2), Harvard's Ed Magazine (1-2)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Bristol-Myers Squibb (10+), XMA Program, Teachers College (3-5)
Other Work History
I'm trained as a journalist and after spending two years as a reporter in Anniston, Alabama, and receiving a masters degree from Columbia School of Journalism, I freelanced in New York City from 1991 to 1997 for a wide variety of publications including the New Yorker, the New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Family Fun, Family.Com, the New York Law Journal, Entrepreneur, Black Enterprise, Working Woman and Women's Wire. My essays appeared in Newsday, Family Fun and Smithsonian.
Foreign Language Skills
Serviceable (conversational) french.
Computer Skills
Word, Excel.
Equipment
Have laptop, recording devices, notepads, sharpened pencils, pens. Ready to go.
References
On request.
Awards
In 1984, while working as a beat reporter at the Anniston Star in Anniston, Alabama, I shared an Associated Press First Place award in the category of news features. Scholastic nominated two of my 2012 stories for Neal and Folio Awards. My short story, "The Last Highway" made the list of notable stories for 2013 compiled by the storySouth Million Writers Award Committee.
Associations
I am a member of the Education Writer's Association.
