Professional Experience
I am a nonfiction ghostwriter and journalist. My personality profiles and features for newspapers and university publications have won three Los Angeles Press Club awards. Ghostwriting specialties include memoirs, autobiographies, business stories.
Expertise
Editor
30 Years
Reporter
30 Years
Writer
30 Years
Specialty
Law
6 Years
Environment & Nature
9 Years
Books & Literature
28 Years
Industries
Newspaper - National
8 Years
Academia - all
10 Years
Book publishing - all
2 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
30 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
USC Law School (10+), Claremont McKenna College (10+)
Other Work History
For eight years, I was an on-staff reporter and editor for Die Presse in Vienna where I spent
four years with the weekly arts and features supplement, three of them as editor of the book reviews section;
one year on the foreign desk;
three years on the national desk, covering Austrian politics in general and women's affairs in particular.
Foreign Language Skills
Raised bilingually, I am fluent in English and German.
Equipment
Laptop, digital camera
Work Permits & Visas
Permanent U.S. resident; British citizenship and Austrian citizenship, i.e. free to travel and work in all countries of the European Union and the UK
References
Anne Bergman (USC Law School); Gilien Silsby (Claremont McKenna College); Kevin J. Moore (private law firm); Andrea J. Simpson (editing client)
Awards
Two second and one third-place award in the Los Angeles Press Club's journalism awards (2005, 2013, 2016)
Associations
ASJA, Los Angeles Press Club, Independent Writers of Southern California