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Chicago, IL 60611
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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