Freelance
May 2004 to Present

You can see my list of clients in the sidebar. I have been a full-time freelancer since 2004 and a part-time freelancer since 2001. I am conversant in several styles, and edit books, journals, programs, abstracts, and more. Contact me for a bid with approximate size of manuscript and schedule expectations included.

American Psychological Association, Washington, DC
January 2003 to May 2004

Over the course of my employment with the American Psychological Association, I (1) edited a high profile bimonthly journal, Health Psychology; (2) edited a quarterly journal, Journal of Comparative Psychology; (3) was on the evaluation team to test a new editing tool; (4) developed a means of electronic review compatible with the then-current macro template to help the department move review from hard copy to electronic files; (5) was a productive member in editing, author incorporations, and proofing of overflow articles in our editing team; and (6) as a freelancer, was in the vanguard of a cost-effective process of scanning and e-mailing return proofs to eliminate mail costs and increase turnaround.

American Anthropological Association, Arlington, VA
April 2001 to January 2003

Over the course of my full-time employment with the American Anthropological Association, I (1) was production editor of three quarterly journals, American Ethnologist, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, and Ethos, and one biannual journal, Anthropology and Humanism; (2) reworked the AAA Style Guide to make it more user friendly, accessible in print or electronic form, and helped to institute an annual review process among field editors for the guide; (3) encouraged and helped develop a process of creating and delivering galleys to authors and field editors as .pdfs, counterbalancing mailing costs and mailing-cost increases and maximizing turnaround; (4) created macros to make Word more efficient and to help the transition away from Xywrite III; and (5) made the same Word template available to every production editor, creating parity across the workgroup in the use and updating of department macros.