Writing Portfolio

• Bachelor’s degree in English. Currently completing a Master’s degree in Social and Political Thought.
• Five years of professional writing and interviewing experience.
• As Carillon features editor, engaged in over 100 interviews with academics, activists, business owners, politicians, scientists, and social workers.
• Past work in technical, promotional, and web writing.
• Experience in writing on a broad variety of subjects, including climate science, human interest stories, popular culture, political and social issues, and general news.
• Strong research skills and careful attention to factual detail.
• Sharp eye for detail, structure, and presentation.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, Dreamweaver, and WordPress. Competent in Adobe Photoshop. Windows and Mac OS X.
• Familiar with AP and Chicago style guides.
• Accustomed to overseeing the completion of complex writing projects. Able to coordinate with other writers, editors, and photographers.

Features

• Breaking free: Regina program gives gang members a way out
• First Nations University: the winter of discontent
• Graffiti: supporting art, fighting vandalism
• Plagiarism: accelerating arms race of academic misconduct
• Radioactive Saskatchewan: nuclear power debate
• Regina’s downtown rebirth: new plan supports walking, biking, living downtown
• Saskatchewan budget breakdown: balanced, forward-looking, responsible?
• The coming storm: preparing Saskatchewan for climate change
• Vancouver 2010: attack of the five-ring circus
• World foods in the Queen City: Regina’s ethnic grocery stores

Academic Writing

• Marx and Hegel: the premise not taken
• Platonic and Hobbesian epistemologies and their political implications

 Arts & Entertainment

• Book review: Eoin Colfer’s And Another Thing
• Film review: Clash of the Titans
• Grave-robbing cinema: horror remakes rarely stack up
• Internet review: Adam Bertocci’s Two Gentlemen of Lebowski
• Lost World, new meanings: adventure story also a parable of imperialism
• Skapunksurfabilly: Regina trio throws caution to the wind with unusual instrument

Commentary

• I’m dead… now what? Organ donation and other afterlives
• It’s the drug economy, stupid: on marijuana legalization and regulation
• Napster apocalypse: the rise of BitTorrent and the end of old media

News

• Dig a hole, save the planet: summing up carbon capture and storage
• Hotels offer cash for stadiums: $10 million for proposed dome facility would be a start
• Iran’s dirty little secret: hidden nuclear site spurs fears
• Littlemore on climate deniers
• Obesity: fitness or failure
• Paper money obsolete by 2011
• “Redskins” offensive? Court refuses to hear case over team name
• Retractable-dome stadium carries $431 million price tag
• Saving Canada’s wasted votes: proportional representation
• “TV tax” rumble continues: CRTC battle spills onto the airwaves
• Urban survival map: guide released for Regina’s homeless