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Freelance publications include:
--Ag Alert (California Farm Bureau)
--Beliefnet.com
--The Christian Century
--Comstock’s
--East Bay Business Times
--Faith & Form
--The Houston Chronicle
--The Huffington Post
--Leader-Post (Regina, Saskatchewan)
--Los Angeles Times
--Modern Bride
--Nirvana Woman
--The Oklahoman
--Our Sunday Visitor
--Our Wedding
--Publishers Weekly (“Religion Update” section and Religion BookLine)
--Religion News Service
--Sacramento magazine
--Sacramento Business Journal
--Sactown
--The Salt Lake Tribune
--The San Diego Union-Tribune
--Science & Spirit
--(Minneapolis-St. Paul) Star Tribune
--Sunset
--(Albany) Times Union
--VIA
--Wild Blue Yonder magazine
Hospitals:
--Shriners Hospitals for Children -- Northern California
Universities/
Colleges:
--McGeorge School of Law
--Mills College
--Sacramento State
--San Francisco Theological Seminary
--UC Davis Graduate School of Management
--UC Davis
--University of the Pacific
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Education
Certificate of Theological Studies, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA, May 2005
MA in journalism, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, June 1999
BA in history and French minor, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, May 1995
Journalism Experience
Freelance journalist, October 2005-present. Stories have appeared in local, regional and national print and electronic publications, including Religion News Service, Beliefnet, The Christian Century, Publishers Weekly, Science & Spirit, Faith & Form, Our Sunday Visitor, Sactown, Sunset, VIA, Sacramento, East Bay Business Times, Our Wedding, Comstock's, Sacramento Business Journal and Modern Bride.
Senior Writer, UC Davis Graduate School of Management, August 2010 - present.
Write and edit marketing materials for nonprofit organizations, including colleges and universities.
Wrote and edited development stories for Sacramento State, May-August 2010.
North County Times, Temecula, CA, Education Reporter, July 2003 – July 2004
Inland Valley section of Los Angeles Times, Ontario, CA, City Hall and Religion Reporter, July 2000 – June 2003
Lodi News-Sentinel, Lodi, CA, City Hall Reporter, June 1999 – June 2000
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Fellowships/Awards
•Maggie, Western Publishing Association, best series of articles/consumer, for Comstock's state water crisis series, co-written with Rich Ehisen, 2010
•Silver, Azbee, American Society of Business Publication Editors, national best feature series, magazines with a circulation under 80,000, for a three-part series on immigration I co-wrote for Comstock’s, 2009
• Maggie, Western Publishing Association, best series of articles/consumer, for Comstock's immigration series, co-written with Rich Ehisen, 2009
• Religion Newswriters Association Fellowship, “Writing with Amazing Grace,” Salt Lake City, September 2006
• Gralla Fellows Program for Religion Journalists, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, August 2002
• Third place, best education story, Society of Professional Journalists, Inland Empire chapter, 2004
• Honorable mention, best feature story, Society of Professional Journalists, Inland Empire chapter, 2004
• Third place, best Sept. 11 news story, Society of Professional Journalists, Inland Empire chapter, 2002
• Second place, California Newspaper Publishers Association, public service category. Team coverage of train deaths, 2001
• Second place, California Newspaper Publishers Association, agriculture/environment category. Team coverage of underground water pollution in Lodi, 2001
• First place, California Newspaper Publishers Association Summer Internship Program, 1999
• Reported and wrote news and feature articles for The ASNE Reporter, a daily newspaper at the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention in San Francisco while a master’s student, 1999
Volunteer work
• Children's Bereavement Art Group, Sutter Cancer Center, Sacramento. Assist art therapist in running 10-week art therapy groups for grieving children and teenagers. May 2010 - present.
• Seminars planning committee, Sacramento Press Club, 2007 - April 2011
• Catholic Press Association's annual contest, volunteer judge, 2008-2010.
Memberships
• Religion Newswriters Association
• Sacramento Press Club
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