My Background

I am a Boston-based corporate communications writer and editor as well as a freelance writer who has published in the country's top newspapers and magazines and on the Internet. I have also written two books. My work for corporations, organizations, and small businesses includes brochures, newsletters, custom publications, white papers, executive profiles, features, Q & A's, op-eds, ghostwritten articles and web content.

My strength lies in my ability to take complicated material and concepts and transform them into crisp, simple, and insightful layman language. While I specialize in aging and boomers, medicine and healthcare, worklife, workplace, business, health, and education, it's not exclusively what I cover. I can take any topic and make it interesting. I have proven this from the wide-ranging assignments I have received: recruting and retaining older workers in the healthcare industry for AARP/Workforce; the law for Columbia Pictures; science and medicine for Harvard University; engineering, terrorism, business, and health for Newsweek; change management for Citibank; educational technology and trends for BBN; grant monies and fundraising for the AARP Foundation; and interior design when I was on the set of Trading Spaces for a custom publication.

I have had to read and report on complex medical and scientific studies for an op-ed piece I ghostwrote for a noted AIDS activist, explain business strategies for print and online periodicals, and learn and then write about robotic surgery and nanotechnology for a fundraising brochure at Harvard University. I've covered budget meetings and political elections for The Boston Globe, incest for The Los Angeles Times, and the Catholic Church for The New York Times and Newsweek. My articles on business have appeared in print and online.

Besides examining a variety of subjects, my venues range from newspapers and magazines to books, the Internet, and television. A “20/20” segment on parental kidnapping I helped produce was nominated for an Emmy Award.

I have extensive experience interviewing well-known people, including Tom Brokaw, Muhammad Ali, Curt Schilling, Tom Peters, Alma Powell, Michael Crichton, Lance Armstrong, Mia Hamm, Michael J. Fox, and Geena Davis. On a New York Times Foundation fellowship, I discussed the issues of aging with Walter Cronkite.

I am highly adaptive and productive, and turn assignments around quickly. In more than twenty-five years of writing for the country's premiere newspapers, magazines, and corporations, I have never missed a deadline.