Experience

• 

  Bellows Group

  • Florence

  • Writer, editor, and communications specialist

    • Feb 2010 - Present
    • Florence

    At the Bellows Group we help progressive organizations broaden their audiences and donor lists by identifying and telling the strongest, most compelling aspects of their stories.

• 

  Rotary International

  • Evanston, Illinois, United States

  • Senior Editor

    • Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
    • Evanston, Illinois, United States

    On a short-term contract, helped to resupply nine departments and the feature well with stories that have brought positive responses from readers. When I arrived there was almost no inventory; when I left five months later we had about four months of inventory built up, including some very creative and crowd-pleasing features.

• 

  Pace Communications

  • remote

  • Features Editor

    • Feb 2008 - Sep 2010
    • remote

    —Conceived, assigned, and edited 1 or 2 features per month. —Top-edited about 45 pages of editorial copy per month. —Sometimes served as manager for an editorial staff of six. —Contributed cover-art ideas and headlines that the Creative Director described as “brilliant.”—Co-conceived and edited a feature package that won a gold medal at the Pearl Awards sponsored by the Custom Content Council in the “Best Feature Article” category. —Top-edited a feature that won a silver in the same category and a Gold award from Folio.

• 

  Disney Publishing Worldwide

  • Northampton, MA

  • Senior Editor

    • May 2005 - Jan 2008
    • Northampton, MA

    —Part of the start-up team that used focus groups and polling to define the magazine’s audience and tailor written material to suit them, increasing readership from 400,000 to 750,000 in two years and annual ad sales to over $6 million.—Recruited and managed about 30 writers, including 60 percent of the magazine’s writers of color. —Assigned and edited about six stories per issue, and created headlines and captions. My stories consistently polled among the highest in reader surveys. —Co-conceived, assigned, and edited the feature story that won the magazine an ASME nomination for best service writing and most of the feature stories in the issues that won it an ASME nomination for general excellence.—worked with an outside PR firm, editing press releases and story ideas, and giving one or two radio interviews per issue. —Mentored and/or managed three interns and one editorial associate.

• 

  ReadeCom Universal

  • Writer

    • Jan 1995 - Apr 2005

    Writing, editing, marketing, and communications —Conceived, pitched, and sold hundreds of articles, long and short, on a wide range of subjects, to editors at such magazines as Outside, Men’s Journal, Yankee, Playboy, GQ, The Atlantic, and This Old House. —Wrote and edited articles, scripts, brochures, book proposals, speeches, marketing material, blogs, social-media entries, and website copy. —Have also written brochures, web copy, and press releases, including a communications plan for a language institute that increased their fundraising by over 25 percent.

• 

  Brown University

  • Providence, RI

  • News Writer

    • 1958 - 1958
    • Providence, RI

    —Identified, developed, pitched, and placed about 30 editorial stories per year to regional and national newspapers, magazines, and television, which attracted an annual audience of about 14 million. —Handled about 40 media inquiries per year, connecting reporters with expert sources on campus, and assembled the University’s first Expert’s List.—Created the University’s first op-ed service, soliciting essays from faculty and staff, editing them, and placing them in national newspapers such as the New York Times or The Atlanta Constitution. This service reached about 4.5 million readers per year and won an award from CASE. —Assisted with research, scripting, and production of slide shows and video presentations.

• 

  New England Monthly

  • Haydenville, MA

  • Contributing Editor

    • Jan 1933 - Jan 1944
    • Haydenville, MA

    This magazine twice won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence.