Writing credentials and clips

Freelance assignment
covering music, spirituality, travel, food, wellness and health, relationships, commentary

2004-2005
Rochester insider, freelancer - newsweekly published by Gannett, Inc.

• home: Holiday decor — less is more - Nov. 26, 2004
• travel: A big trip to the Big Apple - Nov. 19, 2004
• nightlife: Chicks dig guys in lab coast and thick glasses, profile on The Isotopes - Nov. 5, 2004
• tastes: It's time for martinis - Oct. 29, 2004
• nightlife: Buckle up for 'Bee-Eater music' - Oct. 8, 2004
• nightlife: A poet's grace, a singer's voice, profile on singer/songwriter JoAnn Vaccaro

2001-2005
RIT University Magazine, contributing writer - glossy alumni magazine published 3x per year, circulation 100,000

• Feature - On the run
• Feature - Lines of defense
• Feature - RIT builds Field House and Activities Center (writer and multimedia designer)
• On Campus - Ritskeller transformed into interactive ESPN Zone
• Singled Out profile - Mary-Beth Cooper: studying students

1999-2000
Crossroads Chronicle, Cashiers, N.C., staff writer and columnist - weekly newspaper

• News and feature stories:
  • Foggy streak - a news story on a local flasher. This won second place in the 1999 NCPA Journalism Contest for general news reporting
  • Watching fires, years roll by from Hogback - profile of a Forest Service fire tower attendant
  • Jackson County's best friends - a feature story profiling the community's oddest pets
  • Disaster team ready to help at any moment - feature/news story on group of young adults volunteering in Oklahoma after extensive tornado damage to the area
• Columns:
• Freeze friends are warmest
• Cancelling valentine's day
• A white, sandy Christmas
• Best place to greet millennium
• More than one holiday season
• Millennium dilemma
• Creeping crud
• I have a novel addition

Newsletters

2001-2005
RIT News & Events, staff writer, contributing photographer, Web master - biweekly newsletter for Rochester Institute of Technology faculty, staff, students, trustees and local community

• RIT student takes to the ice in skeleton competition
• Wallace Library debuts digital media site
• A healthy challenge to students
• Fullbright winner to study in Germany
• RIT living areas to go smoke free in 2004
• Student Health mixes fundraising with delicious cuisine
• Students say "show me the money" in new recycling program
• Student Government heads into new year with fresh ideas
• CIMS focuses on reusing wiper cartridge blades
• "Pottermania" hits RIT's Athenaeum

2004-2005
The Spiritualist, columnist - monthly newsletter published by Plymouth Spiritualist Church

• Natural Law - April 2004
• The Declaration of Principles - March 2004
• The Fox Sisters - February 2004
• Andrew Jackson Davis - January 2004

2004
RMC Music Scene, editor - monthly newsletter of the Rochester Music Coaltion

• March 2004
• February 2004
• January 2004

2002-2003
GLT, writer, contributing photographer, web designer- newsletter of the Genesee Land Trust

Press releases

2001-2005
University News, Rochester Insitute of Technology - news and Web specialist
Produce constant flow of news releases covering student activities, profiles, events and programs, resulting in placement in local, regional and national publications

2001-2005
Plymouth Spiritualist Church, Rochester, N.Y., - Public relations and advertising co-chair.
Develop and send out news and calendar releases about church events, speakers and classes, resulting in large increase in attendance and church membership with frequent placements in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester insider, Freetime, City Newspaper and Nature's Wisdom Magazine.

Personal writing
2002-2005
Silandara's blog - musings about trying to make it playing chick-folk-rock, living in Rochester, N.Y., freelance writing and having a baby

1998
Travel journal from a trip to France (a touring family reunion) in October-November 1998.