Portfolio

Below are some examples of my editing, writing, and informational materials work. For an external list of some academic publications I have edited and coauthored, please see my ORCID record, and note that some of my work was produced prior to taking my current surname. ORCID scholar numbers are a consistent identifier for authorship when a researcher’s legal name changes.

Academic Editing

I have many years of formal academic editing experience:

  • Edited over 1,000 scientific academic journal articles for American Journal Experts (f.k.a. Research Square) from 2022–2024
  • Served as the English language editor of Ancient Chinese Gold Techniques II for the Chinese University of Hong Kong Art Museum (2022; I am listed as the English language author on the copyright pages of both the Chinese and English versions of this book)
  • Served as a volunteer contributor to the fifth edition of Garner’s Modern English Usage (2022; I carried out research and editing for the “Timeline of Books on Usage” and “Glossary of Grammatical, Rhetorical, and Other Language-Related Terms” sections of the book and am mentioned in the acknowledgments section of the book)

I served as an editor for the following articles and am listed as a coauthor or in the article acknowledgments sections for my editing role:

Academic, Technical & Professional Writing

Prior to beginning my graduate program, I was the lab technician, data collector, and primary author for the following seed germination testing project and report, with two faculty supervisors as my coauthors and mentors. This was the first scientific report (with accompanying conference research poster) I had ever prepared, and I structured and formatted it according to my supervisors’ guidelines: An assessment of seed production and viability of putative Castilleja levisecta × C. hispida hybrids, 2015

I was the author, designer, and formatter of the following:

I was one of two primary authors, designers, and researchers, as well as the primary formatter for the following:

I was the author, designer, formatter, and primary researcher for the following:

Informational Poster Design

Botanical Expertise & Curation

From 2020 to 2021 I identified, catalogued, and mapped over 300 arboretum living collection specimens for Green Valley Gardens Nursery & Arboretum in Walla Walla, Washington. I used PowerPoint to build a poster-sized digital arboretum map that can be easily edited as plants are added or removed to the collection. Here is a PDF version of the map I created, along with a specimens list.

Training Manuals

In many of the jobs and internships I have had, I have been the employee who writes the employee/intern training manual for my team, department, or company. In 2015, I wrote a training manual for ACLU of Washington interns on how to conduct case docket research using Washington state’s Judicial Information System. (My supervisor for this project was Staff Attorney Vanessa Hernandez.) In 2017, I collaborated with Dr. Anne Maxham of the Antioch University Writer’s Exchange program to draft a dissertation formatting handbook for Antioch University PsyD candidates. Below is a training manual and employee handbook that I drafted for Green Valley Gardens Nursery & Arboretum during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the goal of providing a hybrid written and online employee training curriculum that new seasonal employees could complete at home during pandemic lockdowns:

Green Valley Gardens Employee Handbook and Training Manual

Creative Writing & Blogs