Writing, Editing, & Proofreading
Editor, TLC News, newsletter of Triangle Land Conservancy, May 2004 to October 2005
Wrote articles for Carolina Sun, newsletter of the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association (see Summer 2004 and
Winter 2004 issues)
Edited e-book Whatever It Takes: How Granville County Fought and Defeated the Hazardous Waste Incinerator, by Michael Arnold, 2004
Proofreader, National Public Radio transcripts, freelance, 1999-2002
Freelance editing assignments, 1999 to present, including eight papers for the World Bank’s Social Safety Nets Primer
and numerous dissertations and academic papers in a variety of fields
Proofreader, Source, journal of the American Translators Association's literary division, 2000-present
Wrote theater reviews and feature articles for Arlington Courier, Intermission,
Journal Newspapers, 1996-99
Editor, Capital Translator, newsletter of National Capital Area Chapter of the American Translators Association, 1987-92
Newsletter editor for Northern Virginia Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, 1985-88
Research, writing, production on newsletter Urban Innovation Abroad, Council for International Urban Liaison, Washington, D.C., 1981-85
Website Design & Graphic Design
Designed this website as well as websites for the New Hope Creek Corridor Advisory Committee, Selfprotectiontaishe, Inc., and
Envision Plastics
Helped to update and maintain the website of WCOM 103.5 FM
Designed screensaver for North Carolina Conservation Network
Photography
Freelance assignments for WUNC radio, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2003
Freelance assignments for Connection newspapers (Northern Virginia), 1998-99
Samples of nature photography available in my online gallery
Classes in black-and-white and color slide photography
Member/volunteer, Washington Center for Photography, 1998-99
Cataloging/Archiving
National Public Radio broadcast library, 2000-2002. Helped maintain archive of NPR shows, helped reporters locate
material in the archive, and cataloged current programming for future retrieval
Translation
Freelance German translator, 1985-2002, projects included:
- Food & Drug Administration submissions for German pharmaceutical firm Boehringer Mannheim
- The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, a two-volume collection of scholarly papers
published by the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. (I coordinated a team of 20 translators)
- McGraw-Hill's 1990 translation of Bernhard Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- background information for a National Geographic feature on Steller’s sea eagles (March 1999)
- two books on the early German aviator Otto Lilienthal for a project of the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
- a debate on the significance of religion to Bach’s musical compositions
- a book on Schwalm whitework, a kind of German embroidery
- numerous drug studies, pharmaceutical standard operating procedures, and medical journal articles
Translators and Interpreters Guild (co-founder, president, treasurer); certified by the Guild for translation from
German into English
Fulbright Commission English teaching assistant at two secondary schools in Eisenstadt, Austria, 1980-81
B.A. cum laude in German, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1979
Junior year in Freiburg, Germany, 1977-78
Professional Memberships
Co-op America Business Network since 2004
NCPlenty, Inc. (businesses accepting local currency) since 2003
Translators & Interpreters Guild, 1991-2006
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