Copyediting (hardcopy and on-screen)

Project management (books)

Proofreading, freelance

and in-house

Translation, German into English

Copyeditor, Proofreader, Translator

Institute for Applied Socio-Economics GmbH, Berlin

Secretariat for the European Commission’s European Employment Observatory

Teaching Assistant

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Prepared and facilitated discussion sections for social and cultural anthropology and

women’s studies courses.

News Editor

Business Wire, San Francisco

Proofread and formatted business press releases for domestic and international news

distribution. Took dictation for live copy.

(For freelance projects, please see List of Recent Projects.)

Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York

MA in Anthropology with a Minor in Women’s Studies

University of California at Berkeley

Course work in social anthropology

Institute of European Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität,

Freiburg, Germany

Course work in German studies (including translation)

San Francisco State University

BA summa cum laude with departmental honors

Double major: English Literature and German Studies

Sicca Grant from the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University

DAAD Scholarship for the Summer Language Course at the University of Leipzig,

Sage Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University

Honorary Student of the Department of Foreign Languages, San Francisco State

Phi Beta Kappa

Advanced Member (since 2002), Society for Editors and Proofreaders, London

Born 8 October 1968 in Long Beach, California, USA; U.S. citizen with a permanent residence and work permit in Germany