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Current and Ongoing

Irish America
Contributor (from 2007)

Conscience (Catholics for Choice quarterly journal)
Arts Columnist (2002-2004); Contributor and Researcher (ongoing from 1987)

2005-2007

Face of the Fallen, America’s Artists Honor America’s Fallen:  Executive Director (close of exhibit and distribution of portraits to next-of-kin; selection on permanent view at the Pentagon) (www.facesofthefallen.org)

2004

Catholics for Choice, Eection Outreach Communications Officer (2004) (www.catholicsforchoice.org)

2002

Defense Employee Work Safety Demonstration Program
Manager, Communications, Army Implementation Team

Design and implementation of integrated Communications Program disseminating information at participating installations, throughout the command structure, to Hill press and the general public, about U.S. Army implementation of this one-year Department of Defense-wide congressional initiative: program design and development; identification of target markets; preparation and placement of written materials in targeted newspapers, periodicals, on websites and television; preparation of marketing materials; hosting of media and congressional briefings; liaison with, and associated travel to, program supervisors, colleague contractors, Army and Department of Defense personnel, garrison command and local public affairs offices; monitor of program achievements and production of regular status reports; participation in planning and review meetings; budget development and management; program administration.

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2000-2002

Designed marketing materials and implemented media strategies for a range of non-profits and social movements through M&R Strategic Services, Washington, DC

2001

Successfully coordinated major press exposure for Georgetown University's inaugural Workplace Safety Summit; keynote address by Paul O'Neill, Secretary of the Treasury

September 1997 to April 2000:

Mainebiz
Reporter for bi-weekly statewide business newspaper in Maine (click here for sample)
See also Mainebiz archive for samples of published articles including front-page stories

Winter 1999

Conscience
Reporter for periodic national and international newsjournal, published in Washington DC. Researched and wrote A Revolution in the Making, where international activists from Canada to South Africa and Israel discuss the Cairo Program of Action. Flagged on front cover.

January 1998

Casco Bay Weekly
Essayist for alternative weekly publication in Portland, Maine
Participant in ongoing controversy regarding multi-lingual schooling
comparing education system in the US with Ireland (click here for sample)

Irish Times through 1980s
National Newspaper of Record

Columnist

previewing films on television weekly 1986-1988
Under editoriship of Howard Kinlay (deceased)

Feature Reporter
Under editorship of Patsey Murphy
Including full-page review of consignment shopping in Dublin

Feature Writer
Under editorship of Caroline Walsh
Including tribute to Lillian Hellman at the time of her death

also:
Frequent Guest Op Ed writer on women's politics

U Magazine through 1980s
Reporter
on a variety of subjects from additives in the water supply to
Alzheimer's for health supplement to glossy women's monthly
Under editorship of Ronit Lentin, novelist

Hibernia 1975
Wrote polemical essay to mark the opening of the UN Decade for Women

Lilith, 1973
Founder and chief writer of monthly feminist magazine

Fownes Street Journal, 1972
Member of Editorial Board and writer for monthly feminist magazine

also:
several other assignments for numerous news and general interest titles