Rachel Adams

Washington, DC USA

Professional Experience

I've worked as a writer and editor for more than ten years, focusing on issues involving education, foreign affairs, art and architecture, design, the environment, and history, among other subjects. I am currently the editor of a bimonthly academic journal and quarterly magazine at an advocacy nonprofit in Washington, DC. I also edit a quarterly literary journal and run a small press. You can find out more about me at www.rachelcloudadams.com.

Expertise

Copy Editor
10 Years
Editor
10 Years
Writer
10 Years

Specialty

Arts & Humanities
9 Years
Education
3 Years
Books & Literature
9 Years

Industries


Academia Teaching
4 Years
Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
4 Years
Nonprofit
10 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

9 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Preservation Magazine (3-5), Urbanite Baltimore (1-2), Lady Charlotte Magazine (1-2), Current History (journal) (1-2)

Other Work History

Editor, The Child Welfare League of America Managing Editor, Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization Managing Editor, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning Assistant Editor, Preservation Magazine

Computer Skills

InDesign, Word, Excel, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, HTML, Windows XP

References

Mindy Kay Bricker, Senior Editor, Foreign Policy: mbricker@gmail.com Linda Spears, Vice President, Policy & Public Affairs, CWLA: lspears@cwla.org Margaret Foster, Associate Editor, The American Scholar: mfoster@theamericanscholar.org

Associations

Society of Professional Journalists

Showcase

General

Stolen Antiquities: Should Museums Return Relics to Their Countries of Origin
(CQ Researcher 4/13/2007)
This article deals with the moral and geopolitical questions raised when art objects are removed from their original homes in order to be displayed in foreign museums.
Saved on Film: Society's Competition Focuses on Places
(Preservation Magazine 6/29/2009)
The Society for Moving Images About the Built Environment (SMIBE), based in California, hosts an annual short-film contest. The 2009 competition, "Story About a Place," involved constructed space and the way that we interact with it.
Renoir -- Lost and Found
(Lady Charlotte Magazine 2/15/2014)
In 1951, a tiny Renoir painting disappeared from the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 2010, it resurfaced at a West Virginia flea market. Upon its rediscovery, the painting became the focal point of an intensive -- and often confounding -- ownership dispute.
A New Brew
(Urbanite Baltimore 2/1/2006)
In the Brewer's Hill area of Baltimore, an architecture firm transformed a vast historic brewery into its modern, dynamic office space.