Starting new position as a writer and communications professional supporting the Communications team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in October 2024.Experienced writer and editor who enjoys researching and writing feature articles, white papers, opinion pieces, newsletters, and speeches. Started career as a writer and editor for Nashville Magazine, then worked for 20 years as a corporate writer for clients in the health care, insurance, financial services, architectural, and engineering industries, and other corporate clients before working as communications and publications director for Vanderbilt Law School from 2004 through the end of 2023.Specialize in writing projects that involve making extremely technical information and complex concepts accessible and comprehensible to the average reader. Experienced speech and feature writer who has developed targeted communications, campaigns and presentations designed to reach the right audiences in the right ways for clients in the legal, health care, insurance, employee benefits, and financial services industries, and for architectural, engineering and scientific firms, for whom I wrote sales and trade show presentations, responses to Requests for Proposals (RFPs), articles for trade publications, and white papers.During 19 years at Vanderbilt Law School, worked with deans & academic, admissions and alumni relations department heads to build and maintain a comprehensive communications program that reached the law school's important external audiences - faculty peers at other institutions, alumni, prospective students and the media. Major accomplishments include redesigns of the Law School's alumni magazine, which I wrote, edited & worked with a design firm to manage production of for 19 years; its admissions collaterals, which I wrote and produced for 18 years; and its website, to ensure the law school's communications program showcased a top-tier institution with an accomplished faculty, smart and delightful students, a loyal alumni community, and colleagues who were a pleasure to work with.
Listed skills include Newsletters, Corporate Communications, Press Releases, Feature Articles, and 17 others.
