Bachelor's degree from Yale College. Master's degree from School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Professional fluency in Spanish, good French, fair Italian.

More than two decades of experience as newspaper reporter, editor. My editing experience extends to work in communications in international agencies and the private sector. Recent experience:

• Editing copy for DHL through Complan-Medien, German communications consultancy.
• Copy editor, proofreader for Professor Jonathan Shannon’s book, Performing al-Andalus: Music and Nostalgia Across the Mediterranean (U. of Indiana Press, Bloomington, October 2015). Prepared index, corrected Spanish.
• Copy editor, proofreader for Because Tomorrow Needs Her, essays on women’s health issues by Doctors Without Borders workers, 2015 (digital and print). Edited contributors’ essays and picture captions for both versions.
• Copy editor, proofreader for photographer Robert Nickelsberg’s book, Afghanistan, A Distant War (Prestel, Munich 2013), winner of Overseas Press Club Olivier Rebbot Award, 4/2014. Edited contributors’ essays and author’s captions.

Academic proofreading using style guide of author's choice; general rewriting, editing, proofreading for publication, presentations, academic distribution.

My decades of professional experience have given me critical perspective in working with an author to improve his or her work. I know that a good editor is invisible by subtly removing what is bad in the copy and strengthening what is good.

I can turn around a one-page job on 24 hours notice. For larger projects I require more time. This includes a detailed discussion with the author, including his or her requirements and aims.