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I'm a writer, web publisher and senior lecturer in the Journalism Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
My latest project is a website called fiftyshift.com, an online community for women over age 40.
I write for the Boston Globe Magazine, and I occasionally write public policy stories for CommonWealth, a quarterly magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, a Boston-based thinktank. And I write about social media marketing and other topics for the web portal of a major technology company.
At UMass, I’m teaching the next generation of critical thinkers how to report and write with courage and clarity, and, increasingly, across platforms, using text, digital images and sound to tell their stories. My courses include Entrepreneurial Journalism: How to Create Your Own Job in Journalism; Multimedia Reporting About Public Issues; Magazine Writing; the First-Year Student Seminar for first year students and
transfers; and the Journalism Launchpad Seminar, which I developed for upper level students, to help with career exploration.
I also serve as internship coordinator and as an informal career counselor for journalism students.
 And did I mention the fact that my family keeps a remarkably entertaining flock of chickens? The longer I live with chickens, the more I think everyone should have a few around.
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