Who Am I? My Resume

• Freelance writer and editor specializing in aging and boomers, health, work/life, education, family and pets. Venues range from national magazines and newspapers, to custom publications, books, the Internet, brochures, white papers and other corporate communications.

EXPERIENCE

• Contributor to AARP The Magazine and AARP/Workforce.
• Contributor to Time Magazine's boomer and over 50 section (now defunct), 2004-2007
• New York Times Foundation Fellow: November, 2003
• Stringer for Newsweek, 2001-2004.
• Freelance writer in Time Magazine, The New York Times, Parade, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, The Atlanta Constitution, The New York Daily News, Newsday, The Hartford Courant, The Congressional Record, AARP The Magazine, New York Magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, Family Circle, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Child, Working Woman, Working Mother (former monthly columnist),  Parents, Seventeen, Us, and Boston Magazine (former contributing editor).
• Corporate clients have included Columbia Pictures, MetLife Mature Market Institute, the AARP Foundation, Transamerica, Civic Ventures, Yale School of Medicine, Duke Medical School, Tufts School of Medicine, Citibank, JPMorganChase, Harvard University, BBN Learning Systems & Technologies, and Harvard University.
• Celebrity interviews: Muhammad Ali; Tom Brokaw; Tom Peters, Michael Crichton, Geena Davis, Deborah Norville, Lance Armstrong, Mia Hamm, Alma Powell, Robin Cook, Michael J. Fox, Richard Carlson, and Tom Peters.
• Internet work includes msnbc.com, aarp.org, whatsnext.com, grandparents.com, securepathbytransamerica.com, women.com, oxygen.com, and jugglezine.com.
• Co-author of What Every Woman Should Know About Divorce and Custody: How to Keep the Kids, the Cash, and Your Sanity (Perigee, 1998).
• Author of Children In the Crossfire (Atheneum, 1983, hardcover and paperback); national promotional tour with book reviewed in The New York Times.
• For seven years, wrote a weekly Sunday section for The Boston Globe covering municipal news in the town of Brookline, Massachusetts. Have also contributed to The Boston Globe's “Living,” “Learning,” and “At Home” sections and written more than 400 articles for this periodical.
• Co-producer of a 20/20 segment on parental kidnapping that was nominated for an Emmy Award.
• Former editor at Seventeen and US magazines.

EDUCATION

• M.S., Public Communications, The Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University.
• B.A., Connecticut College, with distinction in English.

Member: American Society of Journalists and Authors