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Washington D.C. Metro Area

Writing and editing on cutting-edge science for award-winning international publication.-- Lead feature coverage on life science and earth science-- Supervise policy / politics coverage from Washington D.C. bureau-- Design strategy to improve digital journalism and increase traffic and engagement-- Develop information graphics for online and print-- Write news stories for daily web site, voice podcasts, shoot video

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Host and produce 2 news-driven podcasts, COVID Quickly and Your Health Quickly. Write scripts, find and interview expert quests, record and edit audio.

· The Ultimate Guide To Medical Schools (Sourcebooks Publishing).· Magazines and newspapers: Time, National Geographic, The Los Angeles Times, Health, Discover, Parents, The Scientist, Science World, and Family Circle.· Travel book chapters: Insight Guide to great North American dinosaur digs.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Supervise editorial operations at world's leading newsmagazine covering chemistry science, business, and policy:• Manage editorial staff of 30 reporters and editors based across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Publish weekly magazine and daily web site.• Develop performance, budget, staffing, and editorial coverage goals for $15-million editorial operation, working with editor-in-chief.• Lead plan that produced highest web traffic in C&EN history, using social media, and revamped mobile app focused on news. • Design new workflows and strategic plan for platform-neutral publishing, feeding print, web, and mobile products. Develop detailed reader surveys to inform coverage priorities.• Create staff training workshops on multimedia story presentation, including interactive graphics, video, and audio.• Produce special cover story packages on toxic risks, orphan drugs, and long-term effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.• Deliver top-level presentations of editorial plans to magazine governing boards and advertising staff.• Top edit feature and news stories. Plan all print covers. Write editorials.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Chief science writer for the newspaper and on the publication's web site. --Write stories on climate change, medical genetics and human evolution, bird flu, the aging brain, predicting criminal behavior in children, reinventing the Internet, and tablet computers in teaching.--Write for the "Percolator" ideas blog. (chronicle.com/percolator). --Edit the Chronicle's annual "Great Colleges to Work For" survey and special issue.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Edit technology coverage, and write science stories, for national newspaper and daily web site:• Direct technology coverage and and edit weekly print tech section, as well as special issues on technology and education.• Manage daily news blog, Wired Campus, on technology and innovation at universities. • Acquire and integrate Profhacker blog network, now the Chronicle's most popular web section.• Develop interactive graphics comparing gender bias in different science fields, and tracking the growth of global warming research.• Voice and produce podcasts, recording audio and editing versions played on Wired Campus web site.• Supervise reporters, manage budgets, and develop staffing plans for web and print publications.• Supervise Great Colleges to Work For national rankings project.

Write and edit for a national news weekly:· Write cover stories on the world’s first cancer vaccines, the science of brain repair, diabetes, new pain treatments, discovery of the first cities, and the evolution of beauty.· Develop health columns, disease information centers, and other content for usnews.com. · Edit cover stories, features, and news items on tight deadlines; develop photo and illustration ideas; work with designers and copy editors on layouts.· Plan and edit special issues on the best health web sites, on beating the five most deadly diseases, ways to avoid high drug prices and on non-doctors taking over health care.

Directed editorial operations of a bimonthly consumer science magazine:· Led a major redesign and the introduction of new reader-focused editorial departments, resulting in a twenty-five percent increase in direct mail payup.· Planned covers, special issues, and bonus posters to increase newsstand sales.· Managed annual editorial budget of approximately $600,000.· Performed top edits on all news and feature stories. · Hired, trained, and supervised editorial staff.· Recruited award-winning writers.· Developed new advertising and circulation strategies. · Supervised redesign of magazine web site and introduced on-line forums.

Edited and wrote news and feature stories for weekly science news section:· Performed primary and top edits on stories on subjects ranging from developmental biology and biomedicine to astronomy and science policy.· Supervised startup of on-line science news daily, sciencenow.org, sold to subscribers.· Wrote stories on topics ranging from dinosaur evolution to the use of computers in biology.· Planned and edited special issues on evolution, ecology, molecular infections, materials science, and science careers.· Supervised reporters and freelance writers, and managed Boston news bureau.

Wrote and edited news and feature stories for monthly popular science magazine:· Wrote stories on subjects such as neuroscience, earthquake prediction, new magnetic materials, and the search for human origins.· Edited stories on gene therapy, mathematics of traffic jams, evolution of vision, and a new tuberculosis epidemic.· Developed story ideas and commissioned articles from freelance writers.· Attended and reported on scientific meetings.· Originated diagram and illustration concepts for the art department.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Covered cognitive and health psychology. Won Blakeslee Award for medical reporting for cover story on evidence connecting Type A behavior to heart disease.

B.A. High Honors, Anthropology

High Honors in Anthropology

Course, "Leading Organizational Change"

Computer-Assisted Reporting

Course in database journalism: acquiring public data, database analysis, SQL programming, story development