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I'm a writer and editor who has written for high-profile people and organizations including Dr. Jane Goodall and the National Science Foundation. I provide copyediting services for a variety of clients--nonprofits, academics, publishers, authors (fiction and nonfiction), and more.

As a writer, I strive to make complex subjects understandable, using a lively, reader-friendly style. I offer creative development of story lines and fruitful collaboration.

Contact me if you're looking for someone who will help get your manuscript in excellent shape, tell your story in compelling fashion, and harness the power of words to help you grow your audience and achieve your goals.

Editing

Do you need a keen editorial eye to ensure clarity, coherence, consistency, and factual accuracy? Are you "done" with your work, not because it's truly complete, but because you can’t go further without a fresh perspective on readability, logical flow, or engagement?


I edit copy in a wide range of formats, including:
 - books
- journal articles
– theses
– memoirs
– e-books (how-to books, self-help, and more)

Specialties include nonfiction--reference books, academic (humanities, popular science, and more), life stories, scripts both fiction and nonfiction.

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Writing

I am available for assignments: feature and news articles, blog posts, book catalog and other copywriting, nonfiction for young readers, popular science writing. 

If your topics are specialized and you aim to connect with a broader or lay-sophisticated audience, I can assist in bridging that gap.

Reach out if you need someone to help you capture audiences and convey your excellence.

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My Articles

Longevity Global Substack •

Are Jellyfish Immortal?

It makes sense that scientists would turn to other species to deepen and expand our knowledge about longevity, for many species have exceptional life spans that make our own seem suboptimal. Among the longest-living animals on Earth is the ocean quahog (Arctica islandica), which can live 500 years. (To help that hit home: The record-breaking quahog studied by scientists in 2007, “Ming,” was born in 1499.) Similarly, the Arctic-dwelling bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) can live 200 years, possi
African Wildlife Foundation •

Engaging in global leadership

Since the start, when four men met in a judge’s chambers to discuss the need for African conservation ownership and leadership, AWF’s agenda has been fueled and advanced by conversations, debates, planning sessions, education, and awareness-building around conservation visions and realities.

Our formal policy involvement dates back at least to the 1960s, when the African Wildlife Foundation submitted a resolution to the IUCN for creation of a French-speaking school modeled on College of African
African Wildlife Foundation •

Hippos, zebras return to Tanzania’s giraffe stronghold as poaching abates

The newcomer to Manyara Ranch was not hard to flush out. Two rangers crept around a bend toward its hiding spot — a thicket at the edge of a large pond. With a sudden rush from the foliage, the hippo flew out and into the water with a decisive splash. It is not advisable to approach hippos, but Manyara’s caretakers must monitor their resident wildlife’s numbers and be aware of potentially dangerous animals’ presence and movements. The two men were elated to see the new arrival, who appeared to b
African Wildlife Foundation •

Understanding and safeguarding Africa’s most iconic species – the elephant

Much of what we know of elephants today — behaviors that suggest a rich emotional life, lifelong ties among family members, sophisticated communications, high intelligence, and so much more — is due to the groundbreaking field research of Cynthia Moss and the Amboseli Elephant Research Project she founded.

AWF supported Moss’s Amboseli project from its beginning in the 1970s. The New York-raised Moss had about a year’s worth of experience studying elephants — she’d been an assistant to zoologis
African Wildlife Foundation •

A life devoted to safeguarding the African lion

To protect that most iconic African wildlife species, the lion, conservationists rely on an array of solutions, mitigating threats including habitat loss, the illegal wildlife trade, and, most significantly, human-lion conflict — the leading cause of lion decline in numerous places. Confronting these challenges is the work of Dr. Bernard Kissui, a leading lion researcher whom African Wildlife Foundation has supported throughout his academic and conservation career.

Kissui has been working on li
African Wildlife Foundation •

Geladas: the extraordinary monkeys bringing tourists to Ethiopia

When it comes to primate species with fascinating idiosyncrasies, geladas do not disappoint. These highland monkeys, also known as gelada baboons and bleeding-heart baboons, are highly social, occupying herds that are several hundred or even 1,000 strong. Found only in Ethiopia, this iconic species is a big tourism draw for Simien Mountains National Park, along with other endemic but threatened wildlife like the Ethiopian wolf and the Walia ibex. Geladas are unique in the monkey world. Their diet is almost entirely grass, but they have impressive canine teeth — especially the males, who rely on their fearsome fangs not to eat but to signal dominance or to fight. They are terrestrial, or ground dwellers rather than tree dwellers. When feeding, they use a "shuffle gait," meaning they move along seated, without lifting their feet. To keep safe at night, they sleep on cliffside ledges where hyenas and leopards will not be able to get them.
African Wildlife Foundation •

Conservation sniffer dogs: How a unique human-canine bond leads to wildlife detection

With their powerful senses of smell, these working dogs detect everything from full tusks to ivory jewelry and rhino horn dust — even when items are concealed in coffee or powdered milk. When the dog detects a stash, it signals his or her handler by sitting or freezing at that spot.

The dogs are only half the equation. Each one is paired with a dedicated handler — generally rangers from wildlife authorities. During training, the focus is not just on refining sniffing skills, but on the relationship.

Will Powell, director of the Canines program, says, “The dogs and their handlers must be totally in love with each other. The first week of their training is simply about creating the bond that cements the partnership for the training to come, involving play and just hanging out. Once this bond is established, we can start work.”
African Wildlife Foundation •

How one prominent nature photographer found himself a wildlife conservationist

Nature photographer Billy Dodson, who has been donating images to African Wildlife Foundation for years, has compiled his stunning wildlife and landscape images into a new book. From Desert to Desert: A Journey Through the Heart of Southern Africa is a personal memoir and photographic study of six distinct countries and regions in sub-Saharan Africa: Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Zambezi River Valley, and Namibia. AWF sincerely appreciates that Billy is donat
yalebooks.com •

Artisanal Enlightenment

A groundbreaking work that places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment

What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes, the learned artisans with esprit, who presented themselves in contrast to philosophers, savants, and routine-bound craftsmen? Making a radical change of historical protagonists, Paola Bertucci places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment.
yalebooks.com •

Great Apes

A unique, beautifully illustrated exploration of our fascination with our closest primate relatives, and the development of primatology as a discipline


This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind’s relationship to the great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans), from antiquity to the present. Replete with fascinating historical details and anecdotes, it traces twists and turns in our construction of primate knowledge over five hundred years.
Yale University Press •

Listening In

A cybersecurity expert and former Google privacy analyst’s urgent call to protect devices and networks against malicious hackers and misinformed policymakers


New technologies have provided both incredible convenience and new threats. The same kinds of digital networks that allow you to hail a ride using your smartphone let power grid operators control a country’s electricity—and these personal, corporate, and government systems are all vulnerable.
Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines •

Seismic Risk? Research Addresses Dangers of Older Concrete Buildings in U.S.

In the heart of the worst U.S. earthquake zones, an alarming number of older, low-rise concrete buildings have not been retrofitted for earthquake safety. These two-story to five-story structures may meet the building-code standards of their day, but that day is long past. Today's building codes reflect later earthquake engineering research and incorporate structural elements that allow concrete buildings to bend and stretch a bit during an earthquake. Older designs lack those details.

"There are hundreds of thousands of buildings that have not been retrofitted that ... are very dangerous," said structural engineer Reginald DesRoches, chair and professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech.
Current.org •

If you love this show, you really love it

This American Life is unlike anything on public radio. But what would you expect from a man who once devoted an hour of Talk of the Nation to an imaginary presidential inaugural ball?

The iconoclastic weekly program, on the air nationally since June 1996, already is a success by several objective measures — most notably, a Peabody Award in its first year. ("Holy cow, I've never seen that before!," says an impressed producer.) Within 10 months, 111 stations picked up This American Life, includin
LiveScience.com •

Nature Aids Science to Take on Bed Bugs

Taking up the fight against bed bugs, research scientists have looked to old European folk practice — kidney bean leaves. First, they identified precisely how the leaves trap the bugs and then they created synthetic leaf traps, or biomimetic plastic surfaces. Traditionally in Bulgaria, Serbia and other southeast European countries, households with infestations of bed bugs have thwarted the evasive little bloodsuckers by strewing kidney bean leaves on the floor at night. In the morning, the bed-bug-studded leaves are swept up and burned in piles.
LiveScience.com •

Tuning In to Undersea Sounds

Marine biologist Erica Staaterman is tuned in to the sounds of the undersea world. She records and analyzes the noise of life underwater, and as a result can tell you what a lobster sounds like, or a mantis shrimp (it rumbles). "Most people don't really consider anything beyond whales and dolphins, maybe seals, as sound producers, but it turns out that a lot of things in the ocean make sound," she says. "Fish, crab, lobsters, shrimp — you name it."
LiveScience.com •

New Biofuel Possibility in Horse Gut Fungus

At a recent meeting of the American Chemical Society, scientists announced a potential new biofuels source — anaerobic gut fungus (yeast) found in horses' waste and digestive tracts. This news is exciting because the fungus makes enzymes that digest lignin — a protective barrier inside plant cell walls that is hard to separate from cellulose. In terms of biofuel production, cellulose is the good stuff — the raw materials enzymes break down into sugars for fermentation.
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