Lauren Neefe, Phd Email & Phone Number

Durham, NC, US

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Co-creator and producer, Inhabit, Perkins&Will podcast
• Curator and producer, Design Leadership Council's learning and development initiatives: Inhabit podcast, Inside Design, Technically Speaking, Designer Spotlight
• Editorial director, with Kate Nation, of Don't Call It a Museum, collaborative forum on equity in museum design
• Write and edit thought leadership content for firm's editorial website Insights
• Writer and art director, "Design and Our City" sponsored column, Saporta Report

Atlanta

• Co-managed launch of nonprofit college-education program at GDC site in southeast Atlanta
• Designed 10-week literature course, “Powerful Sounds, The Sounds of Power”
• Recruited, screened, scheduled, and trained tutors for biweekly Writing Studio with Common Good students
• Advised program founders on best practices for website and social media presence

Atlanta, Georgia

• Designed and taught courses in literature and first-year composition: Architectures of Sound; Siri's Progeny; Romanticism's Social Media; Letters to the World
• Secured fellowship funding to assemble team of 12 and stage campus-wide event “Talking Race@Tech.” Oversaw production and distribution of promotional materials
• Edited suite of teaching tools for use by faculty teaching equity and soundscapes
• Founded initiative to foster instruction based on sound theory and podcasting.
• Created, produced, and hosted two podcasts

New York, NY

• Created and implemented editorial and promotional style guides for clients including: Princeton Architectural Press, Visionaire, Time, DailyCandy, New York, Time Out New York, CondéNet
• Copy Editor, Roads & Kingdoms/CNN: Created style guide, copyedited, and line-edited features for Explore Parts Unknown, multimedia supplement to Anthony Bourdain’s award-winning television show
• Manuscript Editor, Great Leap Forward (Rem Koolhass; Taschen): one of two editors who line-edited manuscript for book about Dutch architect's urbanism project in China's Pearl River Delta

New York, NY

• Solicited and assessed projects for coverage in magazine
• Wrote feature profile, “Com Artists,” and monthly column on design history

New York, NY

• Organized conferences and seminars, including promotion and resources for attendees
• Edited professional standards handbook on font use in collaboration with preeminent typographers Matthew Carter, Zuzana Licko, and Jonathan Hoefler. Managed production timelines and deadlines

• Ran annual design competition that awarded in 8 categories. Solicited entries and received 1,000 worthy of judging. Liaison to writers reporting on the competition. Managed staff of 4. Composed Editor’s Note for.

New York, NY

• Screened solicited and unsolicited manuscripts
• Researched and selected letters from George Plimpton’s archives for publication in 40th-anniversary issue

Ph.D, English Literature

Activities and Societies: MLA, NASSR, C19, INCSMorton E. Kahn and David Erdman Award, Best Dissertation: "Romantic Relays: The Epistolary.

Master Of Arts, Poetry

Completed original thesis, a manuscript of poems titled Rooms in the House of Mirrors. Directed by Mark Strand and Cynthia Zarin. Also.

Bachelor Of Arts, English Literature; Creative Writing (Poetry)

Phi Beta Kappa. Honors and Distinction for thesis, Pell-Mell Design: The Confluence of Vorticist Poetics and Remembrance in Pound's.