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• Handle on average 28 book projects (7,500 print pages) per year, from manuscript evaluation to editorial budgeting, all editing stages, and text and cover finalization. Through the process, partner with authors, designers, freelancers, and typesetters. • Assess and vet work of new freelance copyeditors and proofreaders. • Lead a mentorship program designed to introduce scholarly editing to new editors.• Initiate efforts with other departments to create workflow efficiencies and improve processes.• Complete 98 percent of projects on or ahead of schedule. • Overhauled freelance budgeting process.

• Met targeted schedule or completed issues early 100 percent of the time. • Supervised, trained, and mentored a senior editorial assistant.• Edited all text, updated the style guide, managed the peer review process, and oversaw the editorial calendar. • Reconfigured workflow and processes to be more efficient and effective. • Developed the journal’s presence on Twitter from around ten followers to hundreds.• Facilitated an in-house user group for peer review managers.

• Performed copyediting, proofreading, developmental editing, and project management for clients such as the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, Chronicle Books, Cultural Anthropology, David Bull Publishing, Duke University Press, Mother Jones, Penguin Group, Princeton University Press, Stanford University Press, and many individual scholars.

• Supervised seven in-house managing editors, including all training, advising, and assessment. • Managed budget and vendor relationship for online peer review system. • Worked closely with journals director on relationship management, including drafting and distribution of annual financial reports. • Launched a task force to improve and streamline rights and permissions practices in journals and books. • Collaborated with the design team on all SAQ covers and a redesign of the journal. • Updated and maintained the style guide for SAQ.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Anthropology

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English Language And Literature, General