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For nearly eight years, led the most widely read publication in America. With more than 400 distributing newspapers, including the Washington Post, Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times, Parade circulated 32 million copies read by more than 75 million Americans each Sunday. Orchestrated a popular mix of health, food and entertainment features plus articles and essays by many of the nation's leading writers, thinkers and journalists, including David Halberstam, Gail Sheehy, Elie Wiesel, and Norman Mailer, and by numerous US and world leaders. Initiated cause-related campaigns with such organizations as the American Heart Association, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, HGTV, the Food Network, Research!America, The White House Project, Share Our Strength, ABC Entertainment, General Mills and The Nature Conservancy.

Launched and then led React, a pioneering interactive news magazine for teenagers that reached a weekly readership of 4.5 million through 265 newspapers before its close in June 2000. In the late 1990s, react.com, React's website, was among the most popular and critically acclaimed teen destinations on the Internet. With the non-profit New World Foundation, developed the React Take Action Awards to recognize the nation's leading teen activists. Worked closely with executives across the Parade and Conde Nast organizations to create innovative editorial and marketing programs through partnerships with Sony Music, the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the National Science Foundation.

Edited Update, company's flagship current-events magazine; oversaw Update, Choices, Science World, Search, and Junior Scholastic, classroom magazines with a total readership of 6 million students in grades 7-12; served as director of new media and special projects for the company's 37 classroom magazines, orchestrating high-profile, multi-platform initiatives with C-Span, NBC News, U.S. Army, Georgia Public Television, Elektra Records and many others. Directed company's award-winning coverage of the AIDS epidemic, Gulf War and fall of Communism as well as literacy, civic-engagement and human rights campaigns involving millions of young people in grades K-12.

Traveling to more than 30 countries, I have reported from Russia, Latvia, South Korea, Kenya, Thailand, Indonesia, Israel, Nicaragua and Cuba and from Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal and India, where I traveled overland for more than a year. Early in my career I was a photo and art critic for magazines in the United States and Europe and published major interviews with Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson and other master photographers.

B.A., English Literature

M.S., Journalism