Senior Editor & Writer

Highly knowledgeable and skilled professional with over 25 years of experience directing, editing, and delivering content for a variety of mass-market and prestigious publications, including Newsweek, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Food & Wine, and Woman's Day. Noted for creative storytelling that sparks reader interest and loyalty, and for finding original approaches to previously covered material. Strong writing abilities, with a background that includes investigative reporting, as well as interviews with leading experts, celebrities, and newsmakers. Exceptionally conversant with a broad range of topics, from politics, the arts and science, to the environment, food, and wine. Confident public and media speaker.

Professional History

FREELANCE WRITER & EDITOR, New York · 1996-Present
Delivers engaging and well-crafted stories for a variety of publications, including Town & Country, American Health, and Prevention. Currently writing the Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center's annual fundraising magazine, Kaleidoscope.

Selected Highlights

• Served as first-draft editor of “A Community Organizer's Tale: People and Power in San Francisco,” by Mike Miller (Heyday Books; Sept. 1, 2009).
• In addition to writing, appeared on radio shows in April 2010 to discuss gender discrimination: “To the Contrary” (NPR, Bonnie Erbe) and “The Joan Hamburg Show” (WOR News).
• Writing a novel about the magazine business.
• Authored many feature and cover stories.

LONGEVITY, New York · 1989-1996
Monthly health-oriented lifestyle magazine for women.

Executive Editor
In position directly under Editor-in-Chief played lead role in driving editorial content to capture and hold reader interest. Generated story ideas, selected writers, and hired full-time staff members. Directed ongoing projects and promoted the magazine through appearances on radio and television programs.

Selected Highlights

• Recognized for consistently delivering fresh and interesting ideas.
• Steered magazine from celebrity-based stories to more science-based articles. Led development of a major 10-page report on sex among baby boomers – penned the lead story with Pulitzer Prize-winning medical scientist Robert Butler, M.D., as well as an amusing interview with actress Zsa Zsa Gabor about her extensive experience with love and sex.
• Interviewed Dr. Jack Kevorkian about taking ultimate control of one’s longevity by choosing the moment of one's death.
• Authored major Q&A articles with a broad range of personalities and leaders in their fields, including radiation scientist John Gofman, M.D., Ph.D., feminist leaders Betty Freidan and Gloria Steinem, mid-life expert and author Gail Sheehy, and actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
• Created greater interest in food stories by switching focus from the conventional “food-as-medicine” approach to healthy food as pleasure.

FREELANCE CONSULTANT, New York · 1988-1992
Delivered expert consulting services to a range of non-profit organizations including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Ford Foundation, Environmental Defense Fund, Narcotics and Drug Rehabilitation, Inc., Consumer Reports Book Division, and The Funding Exchange.

Selected Highlights

• Traveled to St. Louis to investigate the state of school integration, then wrote a report for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund that was used to decide funding priorities.
• Researched and wrote a report for the Ford Foundation on the Middle East Conflict as it played out at the United Nations.
• For Funding Exchange, edited first draft of a book on affordable housing for the poor in Philadelphia.
• For Narcotics and Drug Rehabilitation, Inc., researched and penned report on the treatment of prisoners in New York State.

FREELANCE WRITER & EDITOR, New York · 1982-1992
Played a key role on a variety of magazines, including Contributing Editor and Writer for New York Woman, Editor and Writer for Longevity, and Assignment and Text Editor for On The Issues, a feminist quarterly.

Selected Highlights

• Wrote major stories for New York Woman: article on Bella Abzug and why she lost her Senate Race; Cops' Wives – when their greatest fears are realized and their husbands are killed or disabled in the line of duty; an autobiographical piece about growing up in the far left during the McCarthy era.
• Introduced a professional tone to On The Issues – improved magazine by hiring professional writers, requiring rewrites for inadequate copy, and commissioning articles pegged to current events.

Additional History

Connoisseur, New York

Senior Editor

• Served as assignment and text editor for periodical focused on “the best of everything” – arts, food, wine, fashion, books, and travel.
• Ensured strong content and reader interest by bringing on board top contributors and continuously sourcing new talent.
• Optimized success of writers by supplying them with well-formulated instructions to ensure assignment focus and relevance for readers.  Known for having very few kill fees.

Newsweek, New York

Correspondent, New York Bureau; Researcher

• Achieved proficiency in the craft of journalism at the highest level in an intensely pressured and competitive environment.
• Was one of very few women to receive promotion from researcher to correspondent. 
• Wrote first free-lance articles, both cover stories, for The Atlantic Monthly (Gypsies in America),         and The New York Times Magazine (day care).

Viva Magazine, New York

• Articles Editor

Politicks & Other Human Interests, New York

• Senior Associate Editor

Additional Publications

Articles have also appeared in: Allure; Prevention; New Age Journal; Martha Stewart Living; New Woman; Today’s Woman; Woman's Day; Savvy; Dial; Ms.; Personal Investor; AdWeek; Woman's World; Viva; Cue; The New Leader; New Choices. Online stories on: HealthSCOUT.com; ParentTime.com; Women.com.

Teaching

• How to focus an idea
• How to write a lead paragraph
• How to decide what points to make in alloted space
• How to make a story interesting
• How to tell the story effectively in many or few words
  (short or long form)
• Developing reporting and interviewing skills

   Guest lecturer for various college-level magazine writing courses

Television, Radio And Public Speaking

Television “America’s Talking”, November 1994; “Joan Rivers: Can We Shop”, July 1994; “Good Day, New York”, July 1993; “9 Broadcast Plaza”, April 1990; Panelist on show to commemorate “National Women’s Day,” Oakland, California, local program, August 1972.

Radio 1967 - present: Numerous broadcast discussions of articles and issues covered in Longevity; and, earlier, many appearances generated by articles written for New York Woman, Newsweek and other publications.

Public Speaking New York Society of Journalists and Authors; National Writers Union; Manhattan-Marymount Writers Conference, and others.

Education

• University of California, Berkeley. B.A. Degree.
• San Francisco Art Institute, Fine Arts student.