I am an editor with experience in academia and the nonprofit sector. I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology in 2009 from the University of Mississippi, and returned to Ole Miss in 2013 to earn a Master of Arts degree, again in Sociology. My scholarly work in the latter program was diverse and straddled primary sociological themes, including race, class, social theory, gender and culture. Often, I would apply these traditional frameworks and problems to normative assumptions regarding mental health functionality and care. My final project was a thesis-internship hybrid in which I created a comprehensive report on the management of campus addiction services from a sociological perspective.      

    In the time between completing these degrees, I worked with multiple nonprofit organizations in Washington, DC, composing original promotional materials and drafting and editing a nationally recognized nonprofit newsletter with a circulation of over 30,000 readers.

     Given my interest in mental health scholarship and after finishing my M.A. in Sociology, I applied and was accepted into a graduate program in Social Work at the University of Michigan. Not long after beginning this program, I was offered a permanent position, as a Research Technician Associate at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, noted in the Los Angeles Times to be “the premier center for survey research methodology in the world.”  My work at ISR included reviewing and editing copy for grant submissions, conducting quality control on survey instruments, and managing research operations in SPSS, among many other responsibilities. I found that the opportunity at ISR to edit original material gave me a passion in working with the written word. To begin my own venture quickly became my direction and led to my career as a freelance editor.

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