Katherine Lymn Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I apply writing abilities and attention to detail in writing and editing final reports, proposals, and newsletter articles. I also contribute to in-depth findings reports; executive summaries; journal articles; and case studies. I draw on my storytelling experience and synthesis skills from working as a journalist for several years before joining The.

Appleton, Wisconsin

• Wrote explanatory and human-centered stories about social issues like poverty, mental illness and racism
• Interviewed government agencies, nonprofits and people with lived experience about community problems and solutions
• Planned, marketed and hosted events for engagement or solutions in collaboration with community groups, including: a lunch for workplace leaders to learn trauma-informed practices; a "Question, Persuade, Refer" suicide.

Dickinson, North Dakota

• Wrote several general local government, crime and human interest stories per week
• Covered many stories on the Bakken oil boom, including the business, health and environmental effects
• Researched and wrote seven-day series on how the oil boom led to increase in sex trafficking in western North Dakota. The project (www.traffickedreport.com) ran in newspapers across the Midwest, including in Minnesota.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Oversaw the 20-reporter newsroom and three editors
• Led daily meetings to decide what stories made the front page
• Helped oversee larger investigative projects

Minneapolis, Minnesota

• Wrote 10 full articles and 13 briefs
• Work included two A1 stories; One, “In fatal traffic crashes, often just a ticket,” ran above-the-fold on Sunday.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

• Wrote creative features about life in Minneapolis
• Shot photographs with several stories

Master Of Public Health, Community Health Promotion

Bachelor'S Degree, Journalism, Sociology

Communications, Spanish