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Washington, DC, US

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington, District Of Columbia

• Perform structural editing, copyediting, and fact checking on reports, papers, articles, and blog posts (more than 40 publications and over 300,000 words per year). Cover a wide array of topics, including the foreign.
• Coordinate with in-house and commissioned Carnegie authors to ensure that publication deadlines are met and that program funders are appropriately acknowledged.
• Copyedit and proofread Carnegie’s web-only content, including Carnegie’s “Return of Global Russia” multimedia web interactive feature as well as 5,000-word blogposts for Michael Pettis’s China Financial Markets.

Beijing, China

• Commissioned, copyedited, and proofread papers, articles, and op-eds (roughly 30-40 publications each year and a total of roughly 60,000 words per year) on U.S.-China relations; Chinese national security policy.
• Compiled annual research program plans in conjunction with CTC scholars for review by Carnegie’s president and CEO.
• Translated Understanding China’s Nuclear Thinking, a 90,000-word Carnegie report, from Chinese to English.
• Managed CTC’s English website using HTML.
• Managed small annual translation budget, liaising with external vendors to ensure quality, allocate resources efficiently, and ensure timely process of payments.
• Drafted and edited event invitations and summaries, conference agendas, grant reports, and monthly email newsletter.

Taiwan

One of 33 grantees selected from among 186 applicants to teach Taiwanese students conversational English and U.S. cultural lessonsSelected among first year grantees to launch a new English co-teaching initiative in Taipei. The government expanded the program by 66% the following year based on our successCreated conversational English and U.S. culture.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Supported logistics for Acton University, a three-day academic conference with 800+ participants, by preparing conference materials for participants, moderating lectures, and assisting guests with questions about their schedules Compiled database inventory for 10,000+ volume privately-donated addition to the institute's library, and cataloged these books.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, International Relations And Affairs

Activities and Societies: Phi Sigma Alpha

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