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              EXPERIENCE
                Freelance Writer, Blogger & Editor, 6/00-present 
                Clients include:  
                
                  
                         AARP.org 
                          AIDS
                          Walk San Francisco                           Alternative Medicine
                          Magazine                                                   APA Monitor on Psychology 
                          BabyCenter 
                          Bankrate.com                            BETA Magazine, the magazine
                          of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation                           Bitch Magazine: Feminist
                            Response to Pop Culture 
                          BlackEnterprise.com 
                          California Academy of Family
                          Physicians                            California Freemason Magazine                                                   Common Ground 
                          Common Sense Media 
                          Cyberhomes.com                            Diabetes Forecast, the magazine
                          of the American Diabetes Association                           East Bay Business Times 
                          Exquisite Weddings Magazine  
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                      HemAware, the Bleeding Disorders
                      Magazine 
  Ikana Media 
                                            LIME.com 
                         Lupus Now Magazine 
Momentum, the magazine of the National MS Society 
National Nurse Magazine 
NewsMax Magazine 
Oracle’s Profit Magazine  
Planned Parenthood 
Prevention 
San Francisco Chronicle 
San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine 
SFSU Magazine  
Teenwire.com 
TMG Custom Media 
T-Mobile International Echo Magazine 
Yahoo! Hot Jobs  
Yoga Journal  | 
                   
                 
                
                Associate Editor, Ikana Media, San Francisco,
                  CA, 8/05-3/06 
                
                   Generated story ideas, wrote news stories, features, polls, quizzes, headlines and kickers for this start-up health Web site spearheaded by Dr. Nancy Snyderman. 
                                 
                News Coverage Team Leader, Santa Cruz Sentinel,
                  Santa Cruz, CA 6/00-9/04 
                
                  Started and managed a team of five reporters covering real estate in this coastal
California community. Duties included generating, assigning and editing stories,
keeping organizational files and source lists, as well as writing a weekly column. 
                                 EDUCATION 
                Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Master’s of Science,  May 1997 
                University of California at Santa Cruz, Bachelor’s of Arts with honors,  June 1996 
                  Major in Women’s Studies, Minor in Journalism. 
                AWARDS 
                
                   Apex Award of Excellence, Financial
                    and Investment Writing, 2009 
                    California Fellow, Association
                    of Health Care Journalists, 2009 
                    Fellow, Western Knight Center
                    for Specialized Journalism, 2003 
                   
                     
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