Professional Experience
An experienced journalist and researcher, I bring the skills of well-trained scholar to all my work and am able to engage with popular and specialized audiences. The primary focus of my work is music and other art forms. I am particularly interested in how artistic expressions (and artists) cross boundaries (nation, culture and genre) and how artists engage with issues of tradition, community and innovation.
Expertise
Copy Editor
15 Years
Editor
8 Years
Writer
10 Years
Specialty
Arts & Humanities
13 Years
Politics
13 Years
Music
13 Years
Industries
Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
3 Years
Newspaper - Local/Regional
1 Year
Online/new media
5 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
5 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Thomson Gale/Charles Scriber's Sons (10+), The Beat (6-10), Afropop.org (6-10), Continuum Publishing (3-5), East Bay Express (3-5), PopMatters (1-2), Routledge Publishing (1-2), Equinox Publishing (1-2), Ashgate Publishing (1-2), MTV IGGY (3-5), Greenwood Press (3-5), Indiana University Press (1-2), Oxford University Press (1-2)
Other Work History
Arts Consultant, Teaching Fellow (Ethnomusicology Dept., UCLA), Adjunct Faculty (various)
Foreign Language Skills
French, Arabic
Computer Skills
Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Finale, EndNote, Pages, the WordPress, Blogger, HTML, Notes, Windows XP, MAC OS 10
Mac 10, Windows XP.
Equipment
laptop, digital audio and video equipment, digital photography
References
Available on request
Awards
College of University Teaching Fellows, UCLA
Fulbright-Hayes fellowship (diss. research in Morocco)
AIMS Summer Research Grant (Morocco), Foreign Language & Area Studies Grant (2 yr's language study: Arabic)
Associations
MediaBistro
