About Me

Photo by Brian Adams Photographics - http://brianadamsphoto.com/I am the Instructional Technology Librarian at the Georgetown University Law Center.  I received my M.L.S. with a concentration in law libraries and leadership from the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. I have a J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law and a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University.  Prior to joining Georgetown, I was the Instructional Technology Librarian at The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in Baltimore.

In my past career, I spent about a dozen years working in and around the capital markets, both as an investor relations professional and as a relationship manager for the Nasdaq Stock Market.   I have been commended for my ability to pull together diverse groups inside and outside organizations, facilitate collaborative work and communication, and devise and execute business strategy.

As a writer and editor I worked on diverse projects such as: annual reports, advertising copy, press releases, internal newsletters, major award submissions, white papers, and marketing collateral.  Along the way I also became an accidental PowerPoint guru.  This site previously housed some of my thoughts on writing, branding, and communication. Those can still be found in the “communications” category. I was the editor of the Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, DC’s quarterly newsletter, Law Library Lights for the 2011-2012 editorial year, winning the American Association of Law Libraries’ “Best Newsletter” award for issue 55.3.

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