Where I've Been

Experience

Freelance Writer/Editor

• Write and edit for Pilates Style magazine, Alternative Medicine magazine, Healing Lifestyles and Spas magazine, Natural Foods Merchandiser, Revolution Health and others
• Produce monthly e-newsletter for Pilates Style and serve as the magazine's senior editor
• Develop, plan, and create content as Mindful Mama's editor-in-chief

InnerDoorway, Boulder, Colo.
Managing Editor, Alternative Medicine magazine 9/05-1/07

• Coordinated daily operations for monthly newsstand wellness magazine, collaborating with editorial team, designers, and production department
• Managed copy flow, editorial calendar, and freelancers
• Copyedited and proofread all content
• Wrote news, features, headlines, captions, and cover copy

Managing Editor, Custom Publishing 12/03-9/05

• Managed, from concept to design, the production of HealthSmart Today (a custom, 116-page, quarterly magazine about health and nutrition)
• Launched and managed Perfect Health (a custom, monthly newsletter on mind-body wellness for Deepak Chopra and the Chopra Center)
• Worked with clients and potential clients to design custom publications

AORN, Association of OR Nurses, Denver, Colo.
Associate Editor 9/00-12/03

• Collaborated with clients to publish newsletters, marketing materials, and other publications
• Translated and proofread Spanish-language publications
• Created educational content for medical consumers

The Eden Communications Group, Maplewood, NJ
Editor/Writer/Researcher 2/97-7/02

• Researched, edited, and wrote marketing materials that paired nonprofit organizations with industry sponsors
• Designed, implemented, and analyzed methods of evaluating efficacy of education programs

BPA International, Denver, CO
Circulation Consultant 12/99-6/00

• Consulted clients on publishing industry procedures including acceptable reporting of circulation data
• Provided assistance in the design and implementation of media used for the purposes of increasing subscriptions and gathering demographic information from subscribers

Skills

• Publication management
• Story concepting
• Magazine planning
• Editing
• Proofreading
• Copywriting
• Desktop publishing

Education

• BS in Linguistics from Georgetown University with minors in Italian and Fine Arts
• Art history, Italian language, and culinary arts at University of Florence, Italy
• Certificate in Spanish from University of Denver

Achievements

• Manage editorial functions for major newsstand consumer magazine
• Managed custom consumer magazine with 800,000 readers
• Launched custom publication for Deepak Chopra and the Chopra Center

Languages

• Spanish
• Italian
• French
• Latin
• Sanskrit