Client List

Writing/Communication

• American Economics Association: member profiles
• Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program (Washington): Substantive editing of reports on metropolitan policy
• Campaign for Sensible Growth (Chicago): reports from taskforce on urban development
• Carsey Institute (New Hampshire): substantive editing of policy briefs and reports
• Center for Family and Demographic Research (Bowling Green): Issue briefs/bulletin
• Harris School of Public Policy, Univ of Chicago: research report, briefs, newsletter
• Illinois Department of Corrections: Condensing seven committees' findings into a new prisoner reentry strategy
• Illinois Department of Employment Security: reports (including annual report to legislator on Women and Minorities in the Illinois Workforce); various marketing publications
• Illinois Governor's Office: report on Latino workforce injuries
• Institute for Juvenile Research (Chicago): annual report; research-to-practice newsletter
• International Society for Child Indicators: newsletter
• Juvenile Justice Network: Issue briefs on juvenile justice
• MacArthur Foundation (Chicago): public relations material; copywriting
• MacArthur Network on Transitions to Adulthood (Penn): Helping cross-disciplinary group of researchers change the national conversation on why young 20-somethings are moving back home (website development, media relations, issue briefs, etc.)
• MDRC (New York): Helping researchers synthesize interview data into a report on community college programs
• Rural Poverty Research Center (Corvallis, Ore): quarterly research-based newsletter
• Rural Sociological Society (Missouri): policy briefing series on rural economic development, Rural Realities
• UCLA California Center for Population Research: Issue and policy briefs

Editing

• Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children
  Greg J. Duncan, Aletha C. Huston, & Thomas Weisner
  Russell Sage, publisher (2006)
  Substantive/conceptual editing
• Twenty-First Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America
  Audrey Singer, Caroline Brettell and Susan Hardwick, eds.
  (in progress)
• Illinois Welfare Reform (working title)
  Dan Lewis (in progress)
• Social Work and Social Welfare Responses to African American Males
  Waldo Johnson, editor
  Oxford University Press, forthcoming
  Project management, substantive editing (edited volume)
• Handbook of Measurement in Family Research
  Sandra Hofferth, volume editor. Lawrence Erlbaum, publisher
  Project management and substantive editing: 30 chapters
  L. Earlbaum (2005)
• Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being
  Suzanne Bianchi, Lynne Casper, Rosalind King, editors
  Substantive edit: 30 chapters, conference volume
  L. Earlbaum (2005)
• Families' Investments in Children's Potential
  Ariel Kalil and Thomas DeLeire, editors
  Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004
• The Decline in Employment of People with Disabilities
  David Stapleton and Richard Burkhauser, editors
  W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003
• Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform
  Bruce Weber, Greg Duncan, and Leslie Whitener, editors
  W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2002
• For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families
  Greg Duncan and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
  Russell Sage, 2001

Other

• Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program: edited various reports: tax policy, transportation policy, and other areas
• Frank Furstenberg, MacArthur Network, Transitions to Adulthood: edited proposals, chapters in book, and a journal article: sociology
• Patrick Tolan, Director, Institute for Juvenile Research, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC): edited numerous book chapters and journal articles, juvenile mental health
• Dan Lewis, Illinois Families Study, Northwestern University: copyedit the annual report to IL legislators on welfare reform in Illinois
• Chapin Hall Center for Children: edit various reports and manuscripts in preparation for publication
• Chedgzsy Smith-McKeever, University of Illinois, Chicago: edit journal articles, rework dissertation for journal articles
• Badhia Ahad, Loyola University: journal article submission: English literature