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As a journalist and copy editor with a background in community-based advocacy work, I enjoy perpetuating language that stirs informed thought and action.

 
EDITING — Copy editing, developmental editing and fact-checking

  • Mechanical, language and content editing for book, magazine and newspaper publications — online and in print — following Associated Press and Chicago styles
  • Copy editing and substantive editing for scholarly essays and book reviews in the social sciences and arts
  • Fact-checking and editing for bibliographic endnotes and copy editing for essays in a scholarly anthology, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan
  • Substantive and developmental editing for a 50-page instructional e-book

                                                    
WRITING

  • News and feature writing for the Boston Banner, a weekly newspaper
  • Feature writing for Peacework Magazine, a national publication
  • Headline and caption writing

 
SELECTED CLIENTS AND EMPLOYERS

  • Abrams Books
  • Boston Banner newspaper
  • Brandeis University, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
  • Monitor, the journal of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court
  • Parsons The New School for Design
  • Peacework Magazine

 
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

EDUCATION

  • B.S. in urban and regional studies, Cornell University

 

OnPoint Editing is a minority-owned, woman-owned business

 

 

 
 

 

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