Agence France-Presse Correspondent,
August 2005 - December 2008, New Delhi, INDIA
~ Covered news stories that included the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, floods
in Bihar state the same year,
terror attacks in Delhi in 2005 and 2008, the progress of the India-US nuclear
deal and the end of the Hindu
monarchy in Nepal for a global wire service.
~ Pitched and wrote feature stories on a range of topics such as the development
of an eco-friendly cremation
system, all-women petrol pumps and the growth of shantytowns around India's
capital.
Agencia
EFE Reporting Intern, Fall 2001, New York, NY
~ Reported and wrote articles in Spanish for news wire service.
Newsweek
Magazine Researcher/Letters Correspondent, Spring/Summer 2000 and Spring/Summer
1999, New York, NY
~ Reported, wrote and fact-checked short items for the Periscope section.
~ Reported and wrote short pieces for the web on three-hour deadlines.
~ Edited and fact-checked letters and My Turn essay columns.
Manhattan
Media Copy Editor, March 1999 - March 2000, New York, NY
~ Copy-edited articles for the weeklies Our Town, the Chelsea Clinton News,
the
Westsider and the New York Amsterdam News.
Freelance
Writer
Have been published in The New York Times, The Christian Science
Monitor,
Viva New York (a publication of The New York Daily News), Newsweek.com,
The New York Amsterdam News, The New York Resident, El Diario/La
Prensa and
Earth Times.
ADDITIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Bantam
Dell Publishing Group Production Coordinator/Production Assistant, June 1997 - June 1998,
New York, NY
~ Worked with the art and production departments, and the print vendors,
to design, proof, print and ship audio book jackets and cassettes.
~ Promoted to Production Coordinator after six months.
