About Me

Professional Experience

Consulting editor and writer based in Montreal since 1982

Previous in-house and consulting positions:

Publications Coordinator and Staff Officer, Board on Science and Technology for International Development, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

Production Manager, Publications, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

Managing Editor and Staff Officer, Board on Science and Technology for International Development, National Academy of Sciences

Consulting Editor, New York City and Charlottesville, Virginia; Associate Editor, Connecticut Health Services Research Series, a university-based monograph series published in New Haven, Connecticut

Assistant Production Manager, Dodd, Mead & Co. (trade publisher), New York City

Editorial Associate, Inquiry--a professional, quarterly journal of medical care organization, provision, and financing, published by the Blue Cross Association, Chicago--and Connecticut Health Services Research Series, New Haven

Production Assistant, Houghton Mifflin Company (trade division), Boston, Massachusetts

Education

Various intensive French language courses, Montreal

Graduate-level courses in printing, production, and typography, New York University

Radcliffe College Publishing Procedures Course, a postgraduate publishing program

B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman's College (now Randolph College), Lynchburg, Virginia 

Community Service

In recent years I have served on the following boards:

American Women’s Club, Montreal (president and chair)
Cedar Park United Church, Pointe-Claire, Quebec (chair)
Mountain Lake Public Broadcasting, Plattsburgh, New York (member)
Public Advisory Board, Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Public Library (chair)