Experience

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  Sierra Club

  • United States
  • Political Organizations
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Senior Editor

    • Jul 1994 - Present

    Conceptualizes, assigns, reports, writes, and/or edits features, departments, online news stories, and essays on environmental politics, adventure travel, technology, literature, and food. Contributes equally to print and digital editions.Conceives, plans, and executes special issues, including strategic planning, story selection, manuscript review, and line and content editing. Leading role in reaching out to writers from under-represented communities. Works with teams--including external stakeholders--to plan special issues and public events. Conceives novel frames for conveying information, e.g. departments like "Up to Speed" (pithy news digest with humorous illustrations), "Survive" (graphic-novel-style outdoor advice), and "Decoder" (annotated documents).

  • Associate Editor

    • Dec 1990 - Jun 1994

    Wrote features and short news stories.Organized Sierra Club's first ever roundtable on environmental justice, "A Place at the Table"Edited executive director Carl Pope's "Ways & Means" column

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  East Bay Express

  • Berkeley, California, United States

  • Contributing Writer and Columnist

    • Oct 1981 - Dec 1999
    • Berkeley, California, United States

    Two decades of community journalism for Berkeley, Oakland, and the greater East Bay. Wrote scores of major features and explainers on East Bay politics and institutions, including the birth of commercial rent control in Elmwood, the Berkeley Co-op, graffiti and murals, Berkeley Citizens Action, O...