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
• Federal Reserve Board of Boston
• 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.)
• MacArthur Spotlight on Digital Media & Learning: executive editor of online blog & magazine.
• 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
• Voices for Illinois Children (Annie E. Casey Foundation): wrote and managed 2010 Kids Count.

Editing & Ghostwriting

• Social Work with African American Males
  

Waldo Johnson, editor
Oxford University Press, 2010
Project management, substantive editing (edited volume)

• Mother's Work and Children's Lives: Low-Income Families after Welfare Reform
  

Rucker Johnson, Ariel Kalil, Rachel Dunifon and Barbara Ray
W.E. Upjohn Press, publisher (2010)
Wrote opening chapter; substantive/conceptual editing

• Gaining Ground in Illinois: Welfare Reform and Person-Centered Policy
  

Dan Lewis
Northern Illinois Univ. Press, 2010

• 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.
Brookings Press, 2008

• Handbook of Measurement in Family Research
  

Sandra Hofferth, volume editor. Lawrence Erlbaum, publisher
Project management and substantive editing: 30 chapters
L. Earlbaum (2005)

• 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