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Wrote feature-length articles about economics, policy, and science.

Lead discussion sections for Public Policy 210, Economics of Public Policy Analysis (graduate-level) and Economics 100A, Microeconomic Analysis (undergraduate-level)

Wrote cost estimates projecting the fiscal effects of federal legislation relating to natural resource management, financial regulation, and homeland security.Built a ten-year forecast of renewable energy rental revenue on federal land.

San Francisco Bay Area

Published in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco magazine, Bicycling magazine, Alternet.org, TheTyee.ca, SFWeekly.com, California magazine, EarthWeek, the Potrero View, and Megaphone magazine.

Wrote copy, performed basic copy editing, and conducted research for upcoming stories. This was a temporary job.

San Francisco

Split time between fact-checking, providing research assistance, writing copy for the magazine, helping to manage, format, write, and copy-edit content for the magazine’s website, and helping to supervise the magazine's editorial interns.

San Francisco Bay Area

Chief responsibility included fact-checking stories for the magazine. I also provided research assistance, wrote copy for the magazine, and wrote for and helped upload print content to the magazine’s website. Once this internship position came to an end, I continued on at the magazine as an editorial fellow.

Vancouver, British Columbia

Assisted with the writing, programing, editing, and presentation of polls andpolling data for a public opinion research company.

Vancouver, British Columbia

Wrote feature stories covering a range of subjects including economics and labor issues, local, municipal, and federal politics, arts and local media stories, and food science. Also wrote regular short-length news stories.

Master'S Degree, Public Policy Analysis

Activities and Societies: Policy Matters Journal

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics, History