Professional Experience
From Watsu to weaning, Le Corbusier to Le Cordon Bleu, public journalism to public radio, my beat is broad. I specialize in design and architecture; health and spa coverage; parenting and child development; food and travel; and all things under the rubric of public journalism. A prolific writer and editor, I have published more than 100 articles in national and local magazines, co-written a play, edited books, and created an innovative magazine about public radio for KJZZ and KBAQ, the NPR affiliates in Phoenix, Arizona. I currently teach magazine writing at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at ASU and manage digital communication and social media for the Musical Instrument Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate museum in Phoenix. Whether you're looking for a full-length feature, pithy Web copy or an entire book, I'm available for all your editorial needs.
Expertise
Editor
18 Years
Writer
18 Years
Social Media
4 Years
Specialty
Arts & Humanities
8 Years
Home & Garden
12 Years
Lifestyle
14 Years
Industries
Academia Teaching
4 Years
Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
15 Years
Magazine - Local/Regional magazines
13 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
18 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Self Magazine (1-2), Mental Floss magazine (1-2), Healing Lifestyles and Spas (6-10), Arizona Highways (3-5), Parents Magazine (1-2), Saturday Evening Post (1-2), Go magazine (10+), Design & Architecture (10+), Public Radio Wave quarterly (10+), Successful Living (1-2), LINKS magazine (1-2), Wavelength magazine (10+), LUXE magazine (1-2), Great American Kitchens (1-2), ReZoom.com (1-2), Sunset magazine (3-5)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Modern Industries (1-2), Musical Instrument Museum (10+), Sally Cooper & Company Public Relations (10+), Arizona Office of Tourism (3-5), BrandWithin (1-2), City of Glendale, Arizona (1-2), Friends of Public Radio Arizona (10+)
Other Work History
Adjunct professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University
Communications consultant at the Musical Instrument Museum
Creator and editor in chief of Wavelength, a magazine by, for and about the fans of public radio
Managing editor of Design & Architecture (Arizona), founding editor of Design & Architecture (Chicago)
Executive editor of Arizona Foothills Magazine
Executive editor of Custom Homes
Founding editor of the in-house publication for The Boulders Resort & Golden Door Spa
Editorial assistant/fact-checker at Parents Magazine
Intern at The New Yorker
Research coordinator, Project on Public Life and the Press
BOOK PUBLISHING
Editor and co-author of "Musical Instrument Museum: Highlights of the Collection"
Editor and co-author of the history book, "Glendale: Our Past, Our Progress, Our People"
Editor of "The Creative Community: Designing for Life" by architect and Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice Vernon Swaback
Technical Skills
Copy editing, social media
Computer Skills
OpenOffice, Acrobat, Skype, Office, etc.
Equipment
Laptop and desktop computers, digital audio recorder, digital cameras, digital videocamera, transcriber, scanner, Web conferencing gear
References
Numerous, available on request
Awards
Silver medal, Worldfest international Film Festival for a documentary about cabbies; 2006 APEX Award of Excellence for Wavelength magazine
