Freelance Work & Portfolio

I am available for a 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 such as reports, dissertations, articles, memoirs, and more. In my former position as Managing Editor at a research lab, where I ran a blog and newsletter and managed all publications, I authored, copyedited, and project-managed many products, including:

Select Authored Articles, Edited Interviews, & Blogs

CLS2025 Keynote Speaker Danaé Metaxa on How Algorithmic Audits can Empower Students to Build More Informed Relationships with Technology

CLS2025 Keynote Speaker Meryl Alper On Why We Need Connected Learning Now More Than Ever

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

Translating Literacy Research to Edtech: What We Have Learned to Support Product Development (Copyeditor on report, published by Joan Ganz Cooney Center, June 2026)

The Family Tech Cycle: Navigating Screens, Devices, and Social Media (Copyeditor on report, published by Joan Ganz Cooney Center, March 2026)

Youth Wellbeing by Design: Integrating Research, Critical Perspectives, and Innovation (Multi-contributor essay collection - MIT Press, 2026 (Managed CFP and production on multi-author essay collection)

Transformative Outcomes Through Community Engagement: How Public Library Leaders Foster Connected Learning Teen Services (Managed production of 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 (Managed CFP and production on multi-author essay collection - MIT Press, 2023)

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

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

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

Other Experience

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