Experience

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  The MIT Press

  • remote

  • Copywriting Manager

    • Mar 2022 - Present
    • remote

    Responsible for the drafting, editing, and brand management of promotional and marketing copy of 300+ book titles in science, technology, engineering, art, architecture, and design, including trade, academic trade, and scholarly monographs; data and metadata management; and seasonal catalog production.Oversee annual marketing budget planning and expense tracking related to copywriting and catalog.Advise on title, positioning, and audience for books at precontract and book packaging meetings.

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  The College Board

  • United States
  • Education Administration Programs
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Director, English Language Arts

    • Apr 2014 - Feb 2021

    Provided strategic leadership for a major content workflow, ensuring that my team had access to all resources, process documentation, and schedules. Effectively coordinated all deliverables with other departmental teams and with external stakeholders/vendors. Oversaw a diverse advisory committee of post-secondary and secondary instructors for content and fairness reviews of SAT pre-tests. Founded the internal Diversity Task Force, which made editorial policy recommendations that align to current antibias discourse for test content. Directed preparations for Fall 2016 launch of Digital SAT, with special focus on alternative testing formats, to ensure that students with disabilities had the necessary testing accommodations. Redesigned the SAT essay task in 2016 with President & CEO David Coleman and key strategic partners to focus on analytical writing and command of evidence; drafted the task design, multidimensional scoring rubric, and prompt template language. Spearheaded the California Accuplacer (College Board’s community college placement exam) fairness & sensitivity review panel; drafted fairness guidelines, facilitated training, moderated committee meetings, designed review protocol, and reported out results to program.

  • Senior Assessment Specialist

    • Jan 2010 - Apr 2014

    Supervised, coordinated, and managed the SAT essay section, administered to 1.6+ million students each year.Developed 45 new prompts per academic year, created prompt assignment schedule, field-tested all prompts, created annotations for scoring, oversaw vendor scoring and external committees for fairness and sensitivity review, and analyzed statistical data.

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  New York Institute of Technology

  • New York, NY

  • Adjunct Instructor

    • Oct 2012 - Dec 2012
    • New York, NY

    Taught modern and contemporary literature.

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  independent writing and editing professional

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Writer

    • 2005 - Jan 2010
    • Greater New York City Area

    My writing has appeared in Time, Artforum, Art in America, Modern Painters, Paper Monument, and other publications. My third collection of poetry, Women on the Moon, was published by Word Works in Sept 2023. My second collection, Lunch Portraits, was published by Brooklyn Arts Press in 2016 and favorably reviewed in Publishers Weekly. My first collection of poetry, XING, was published by Saturnalia Books and distributed by the University Press of New England, in October 2011. My poems have appeared in The New Republic, American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, Fence, Indiana Review, New American Writing, The Iowa Review, and other magazines, and my work has been anthologized in the Brooklyn Poets Anthology and Bedford Macmillan's Advanced Language and Literature: For Advanced Honors and Pre-AP, 2nd edition. My fiction has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, The Iowa Review, The L Magazine, and other publications.

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  Educational Testing Service (ETS)

  • Princeton, NJ

  • Assessment Specialist II

    • 2006 - 2009
    • Princeton, NJ

    Created, developed, and reviewed items for TOEFL and TOEIC tests. Produced the audio component of TOEIC speaking measure, including direction of voice actors, studio-recording, and editing. Assembled paper-and-pencil TOEFL Reading forms according to test specifications.

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  The College of New Jersey

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor

    • 2005 - 2006

    Taught poetry and fiction writing for undergraduates. Responsible for three courses of creative writing, including syllabus design, lecturing, grading.