2000-Present-- Journalism Adviser/English teacher
Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto High School, Calif.
 

• Advise Verde magazine, recognized in April 2001 as one of the top three high school magazines in the counry
• Teach Critical Thinking and Writing (9th grade honors) and American Literature (11th grade)
• Advised The Campanile, Paly's award-winning newspaper, during Spring 2001 semester
• Co-piloting new Web Journalism course beginning Fall 2002
• Serve as technology mentor to English department

1996-2000-- Journalism Adviser/English teacher
Lowell High School Journalism Program, San Francisco, Calif.

• Advised The Lowell on the Web, one of the nation's top high school journalism Web sites, and its accompanying newspaper
• Designed and taught one of the nation's only high school courses in Internet Journalism
• Co-wrote ground-breaking curriculum for new course, Ethnic Literature/Writing for Publication
• Taught World Literature and Advanced Composition

1992-1995 -- Stringer
Newsweek Magazine, San Francisco, Calif.
Covered news and features in six Western states for an internationally distributed weekly magazine; suggested and reported stories for Arts, Business, Lifestyle, Mind, Nation, Periscope and Science sections. (Limited work in 1999) 

1992-1995 -- Copy editor/Member services coordinator
PR Newswire, San Francisco, Calif.
Edited and proofread press releases under deadline for a national wire service. (three temporary positions totaling 13 months)

1990-1991 -- Reporter, assistant city editor 
The Columbia Missourian, Columbia, Mo.
Covered criminal justice and general assignment beats for a daily newspaper with a circulation of 6,000; some copy editing.

1990-1991 -- Teaching assistant
University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
Taught writing skills, reviewed lectures and graded research papers for undergraduate journalism courses

1991 -- Assistant city editor
Columbia Missourian, Columbia, Mo.
Maintained news budget; assigned and edited students' stories under deadline for a 6,000-circulation daily newspaper

1989 -- Assistant editor
Investigative Reporters & Editors, Columbia, Mo.
Wrote and edited abstracts of news articles for the IRE Journal Index, a reference book for the quarterly journal of IRE, a national center for investigative journalism.

HONORS AND AFFILIATIONS

Nominated for Adviser of the Year for 1997-98 by the California Newspaper Publishers Association

New Adviser of the Year for 1996, Journalism Education Association of Northern California

Advisory Board member for Campus Ad Network

Journalism Educators Association of Northern California, member

National Scholastic Press Association, member

EDUCATION

Course in Internet Journalism
City College of San Francisco
Topics covered included fundamentals of HTML, storytelling on the Internet, online advertising, and legal and ethical issues of internet journalism; course taught by editor-in-chief of wired.com. Fall 1998

Teaching credentials
San Francisco State University
Single subject secondary school credential in English, January 1996; Cross-Cultural, Language and Academic Development (CLAD) certification, January 1996

Master of Journalism<'I>
University of Missouri at Columbia
Concentration in International Journalism, May 1992

Bachelor of Arts
University of California at Berkeley
Major/Minor: Psychology/Creative Writing, May 1989