I am available for short- and long-term work as a freelance writer and editor. My areas of special expertise include higher education, arts and culture, and international development, but I have undertaken work across a variety of fields and sectors.

I coordinated the development of CAUBO’s publications including the quarterly University Manager magazine, quarterly e-newsletter, website content (including text and instructional videos), member communications, and promotional materials for the annual conference and other professional development events. This included writing, editing, and proofreading. I managed and maintain ongoing relationships with suppliers such as printers, graphic designers, videographers, translators and publishers, and provided communications support and advice to management including the Associate Director and Executive Director. In addition, I provided on-site communications support at CAUBO’s annual conference including liaising with audio-visual staff, speakers, and award recipients.

My major tasks included writing and editing all articles for the Board's weekly membership newsletter, ghostwriting regular columns on behalf of the Board's President for local weekly and monthly publications, writing and coordinating distribution of the Board's monthly news release, writing and editing text for the Board's web site and social media outlets, acting as media liaison between reporters and the Board President, and liaising with various Board Committees to provide staff support, record minutes and write reports for the Board of Directors.In particular, I worked with the Government Relations Committee, which undertakes lobbying and relationship-building efforts with local municipal, provincial and federal politicians. I attended many political action conferences and lobby days at both Parliament Hill and Queen's Park, and am skilled in presenting industry issues to elected officials. Other responsibilities included writing communications plans for various projects, planning and executing local advertising campaigns to promote members and industry issues, and working with the multimedia team to create podcasts and instructional videos.

In this position I scheduled advertisements, edited and proofread advertising text, and created ad layouts in Quark Xpress for the Ottawa Real Estate Board's weekly advertising publication, the Guide. In addition I assisted with bookkeeping and front desk customer service.

As a contractor working for my former employers at the NAC, I edited and compiled biographical materials and coordinated translation for in-house and special events program booklets (such as the Albert Scene and the Canada Dance Festival.I also wrote profiles of restaurants and businesses for OttawaPlus.ca.

Major tasks in this position included editing text, sizing and cropping photographs and laying out program booklets for all of the NAC's in-house dance, theatre and orchestra productions. I also edited materials and coordinated production of the monthly calendar of events and the quarterly in-house magazine, Prélude. This was a bilingual position where I also coordinated translation and managed the production of all of the above-mentioned materials up to the printing and distribution stages. This job required a high level of proficiency with Quark Xpress (desktop publishing software) and MS Office products, as well as excellent time-management and interpersonal skills.