George De Stefano Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Expert word mechanic who can make any piece of writing flow better. Copy, line, and substantive editing of nonfiction academic and trade books, essays and articles, reports, educational materials, and other publications of public and private agencies. Authors I have worked with have sold their manuscripts to publishers after I edited them.I offer a.

Long Island City, NY

• Author:"An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America" (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus, Giroux)Contributing author:
• Re-Thinking the Godfather 50 Years Later (2024)
• The Routledge History of the Italian Americans (2018)
• Our Naked Lives (2013) Bordighera Press
• The Essential Sopranos Reader (2011) University of Kentucky Presses
• Mafia Movies: A Reader (2011) University of Toronto Press

New York, NY

• Planned, edited, and wrote agency publications for healthcare professionals and the public: progress reports, epidemiological and other scientific reports, policy papers, brochures, newsletters, and fact sheets..
• Produced 25-30 new print and digital publications per quarter, in multiple languages, providing important health information to millions of New Yorkers. Publications also distributed to public health organizations in.
• Wrote and edited reports on various public health and mental health issues, including New York’s successful efforts to prevent non-communicable diseases, which the City of New York and the director of the World Health.
• Provided agency-wide leadership and support on language access services (translation and interpretation) for New Yorkers with limited English proficiency.

New York, NY

• Director, Media and Special Projects, 1999-2010
• Wrote and edited materials to support the mission of the Department's HIV/AIDS Bureau: requests for proposals, policy analyses, position papers, brochures, fact sheets and reports
• Developed social marketing campaigns that informed the public about HIV/AIDS and available prevention and treatment resources
• Wrote grant proposals and funding reports to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), resulting in enhanced grant funding for agency and community-based initiatives
• Chaired agency panel that approved Department-funded literature produced by New York health and medical organizations; reviewed and edited materials to ensure scientific accuracy and appropriateness for target.