Leah Goodwin Email and Phone Number

One of my retired military book-publishing clients once remarked to me that he appreciated my ability to "accept, assess, and adapt." I was flattered. Now I take it as my mantra, in my professional as well as my personal life.With 23 years of experience as a professional editor, proofreader, and copywriter in the digital and print realms, my experience is both broad and deep. I have a demonstrated history of fluency in the editing and writing styles, structures, and conventions of the social sciences and the humanities, as well as in the fields of environmental activism, birth choice & women's advocacy, animal-companion/pet care, clinical & research pharmaceuticals, medicine, B2B, B2C, fin-tech, logistics, religion and religious studies, spirituality, fiction, poetry, holistic wellness, lifestyle, law, and regulatory policy. I am a Harvard Divinity School and University of Chicago graduate with skills including, but not limited to, the following realms: - Nonprofit organizational work (focused in administration, public speaking & presentation, volunteer engagement & management, fundraising & donor retention, visioning, branding, social media marketing, website creation & management, and COVID/emergency pivot response- Pastoral ministry & chaplaincy- Microsoft Office, Adobe Suite, QuickBooks, GoogleDocs, Java, and so on- Profitable business ownership- Volunteer management - Public speaking & presentations, as well as instruction thereinWhether it be genre or environment, you name it, I've worked with it. My work has included communities sizable and small, strait-laced and slapstick; my clients and supervisors have ranged from politically neutral NGOs to small-town congregations rejuvenating their parish life and social-media presence, from politically conservative religio-philosophical periodicals to liberal activist organizations, from ESOL students working toward their master's degrees to tenured professors, from well-known, published authors to offbeat poets. My greatest assets, aside from quantifiable skills, are my engagement, my swift learning curve, my empathy, my adaptability, and my curiosity. I bring to my work a respect for and understanding of the human spirit that suits me well for senior leadership roles and project management positions--and I'm more than happy to think outside the box (or the dodecahedron, for that matter).