Freelance Work & Portfolio

I am currently available for a wide range of freelance project management, copyediting, and proofreading work. As a freelance copyeditor for nearly fifteen years, I’ve worked on a variety of materials. In my position as Managing Editor at a research lab, where I run the lab’s blog and newsletter and manage all publications, I have copyedited, project-managed, and produced numerous publications, including:

Select Authored Articles & Blogs

Igniting Student Potential: CLL Symposium Unites Researchers, Industry Leaders, and Educators Over AI’s Capacity for Self-Discovery and Empowered Learning

Second Annual Accessing STEM in Higher Education Event Helps Prepare Blind and Low Vision Students for College STEM

Associate Professor of Informatics Recognized with NSF CAREER Award

Perseverance and Community Are Keys to Success For Punit Shah

2025 Aspirations in Computing Event Honors Local Student Innovation and Success

ICS Professor Among Three UC Irvine Researchers Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Youth-Powered Wellbeing in a Digitally-Connected World: Highlights from the Connected Wellbeing Symposium

Select Authored Case Studies

YR Media: Elevating Youth Voice to Foster: School Engagement

This Teenage Life: Building Youth Connection, Community, and Sense of Belonging

Novelly: Youth-Authored Literature for Connection, Affirmation, and Healing

Games for Change Learn: Using Games for Learning and Positive Social Impact

Give Us The Floor: Supporting LGBTQIA+ Youth with Online Group Chats

ExperienceCraft: Meeting Grieving Kids Where They Are

Select Managed Editorial and Production Projects

Youth Wellbeing by Design: Integrating Research, Critical Perspectives, and Innovation (Multi-contributor essay collection - MIT Press, In Press (published on MIT Press’s Works in Progress platform in 2024)

Transformative Outcomes Through Community Engagement: How Public Library Leaders Foster Connected Learning Teen Services (Report - Connected Learning Alliance, 2024)

Making Connections to Support STEM Transitions (Managed production of new project page, new web content, and 8 affiliated case studies)

Algorithmic Rights and Protections for Children (Multi-author essay collection - MIT Press, 2023)

Asset and Action-Based Approaches to Civic Learning: A Review of Frameworks, Evidence and Approaches (Report - Connected Learning Alliance, 2022)

Social Media and Youth Wellbeing: What We Know and Where We Could Go (Report - Connected Learning Alliance, 2020)

The Connected Learning Research Network: Reflections on a Decade of Engaged Scholarship (Report - Connected Learning Alliance, 2020)

Other Experience

Instructor in Creative Writing and Composition - University of California, Irvine (2016-2019)