Linda Leeb Duper

Communications Consultant at LLD Communications

ab9mzp@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Let me know how I can use my excellent writing, editing, and strategic skills to devise creative, compelling

communications plans and materials to promote organizational effectiveness, growth, image, and morale. I am

especially good at “translating” technical or specialized information into clear, friendly language with any

desired spin or tone. I have a sharp design eye and I am great at synthesizing information from a wide variety of

sources into a seamless, compelling piece.

As Project Director for Infoco, I find the right people for focus groups and other research formats, working with

clients to identify branding, target audiences, and messaging strategies for consumer and B2B projects.

As Associate Director of Communications for a prominent international drug prevention organization, I worked

with volunteers, vendors, and PR and advertising agencies to ensure a regular flow of actionable,

audience-appropriate information to a variety of stakeholders grassroots, media, donors, scholars, officials,

board of directors, etc. I developed the organizational style guide, produced the annual report, wrote and

produced the newsletter, spearheaded direct-mail campaigns, collected and communicated data for reports,

wrote grants, and designed and maintained media and grantwriting databases.

I have translated a brilliant novel, "Que viva la musica," by Colombian author Andres Caicedo, now available

on Amazon.com as an ebook. Long Live Music!

I am also an award-winning published author and writer of wide experience, creating materials for many

different audiences, media, and audiences. I've done everything from a marketing CD-ROM for a petrochemical

pipeline company to drug-prevention newsletters to butterfly-watching PSAs for a city government. You name

it, I can write it.

I recently completed the excellent mediation training course at the esteemed Fanning Institute at the University

of Georgia and have registered as a certified mediator with the state of Georgia.

Experience

Partner/Project Director at Infoco, Inc

March 2007 - Present (6 years 5 months)

Since 1992, Infoco has been providing highest quality market research recruiting and field management to

hundreds of clients nationwide.

1 recommendation available upon request

Communications Consultant at LLD Communications

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1994 - 2013 (19 years)

- Write, edit, and translate web pages, manuals, brochures, handbooks, scripts, articles, and other materials for

a variety of corporate, education, and nonprofit clients on a wide range of topics.

- Develop and implement communications, marketing, promotional and educational campaigns.

- Clients include Charles Schwab, Safeway, Kaiser Permanente, South Tahoe Public Utility District, URS.

2 recommendations available upon request

Writing Consultant, Editor at Strategic Arts

January 2009 - 2011 (2 years)

Strategic Arts is a boutique consulting firm that empowers creative professionals with knowledge, clarity and

an effective plan of action; so they can answer their creative call and realize their artistic vision. It is headed

by Kamal Sinclair, whose latest project is the brilliant QuestionBridge.com curriculum and exploration of

core identity and perception.

Associate Director of Communications at Just Say No International

1990 - 1994 (4 years)

- Compose and coordinate marketing, external-relations, direct-marketing, and program communications

projects of all kinds

- Write, edit, and produce quarterly newsletter, copy, manuals, news releases, public-service announcements,

reports

- Coordinate publications production; devise organizational style guide and standards

- Grantwriting.

Courses

Postgraduate, English and Secondary Education

University of California, Berkeley

Bay Area Writing Project

Independent Coursework

Mediation

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Projects

Long Live Music

January 2011 to December 2012

Members:Linda Leeb Duper

‘Long Live Music’ is a novel by Colombian writer Andrés Caicedo. ‘Long Live Music’ (Qué viva la música)

was his first and only full-length novel, published in 1977 shortly before his death by suicide at age 25. To

my knowledge, this is the first time any of his work has been translated into English, so he is virtually

unknown in the English-speaking world.

This novel chronicles the social and moral decline of a 17-year-old girl. From her upper-class origins, she

sinks through the strata of Colombian society to settle eventually at the lowest possible level in the red-light

district of Cali, her native city. As the novel opens, she has just begun to savor the high-life of her class,

which centers on drugs, American fashions, sex, and rock and roll. The whole scene inevitably collapses,

being little more than an imitation of an alien and already degenerate culture. Determined to continue the

party no matter what, the protagonist (whose name we do not discover until the last page) ventures outside

her social sphere to find a new dance craze: salsa. Unlike rock and roll, salsa has roots in her own culture, a

stamina and vitality to equal her own, and a rhythmic velocity to which she gravitates naturally. She learns

the ways of her new surroundings through a series of men, preying on their knowledge and their secrets and

then discarding them. As she immerses herself more deeply in the frantic world of hardcore salsa, she refines

and distills her pleasures until she arrives at a situation she knows she will never leave because it suits her so

perfectly.

In addition to its considerable literary merit, the book is extremely entertaining. The protagonist is

manipulative, vain, corrupt, and hedonistic to the point of perversion and she is also intelligent, vivacious,

charming, and perceptive. Her story, which in less skilled hands would be craven or sordidly sensational, is

lively and engaging, imbued with spirit and significance.

The Elite Respondent

June 2009 to June 2009

Members:Linda Leeb Duper, Lauren Lundgren

Why Going to Focus Groups Is Good for You

160 Ways to Help the World

1997 to 1997

Members:Linda Leeb Duper

Community service projects for young people

Languages

Spanish

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Publications

160 Ways to Help the World

Facts on File 1997

Authors: Linda Leeb Duper

Do you want to make the world a better place but don't know where to start? Then it's time to 'think globally,

act locally.' 160 Ways To Help The World will help you make a positive impact on your community.

Long Live Music

E-book 2012

Authors: Linda Leeb Duper, Andres Caicedo

Brilliant novel by Colombian cult author Andres Caicedo, available now for the first time in English in this

excellent and unique translation. Welcome, North American readers, to this Latin American wunderkind.

Certifications

Mediator

State of Georgia

Skills & Expertise

Mediation

I recently completed the awesome mediation

training at the Fanning Institute at the University of

Georgia and registered with the State of Georgia as

a certified mediator.

Writing

English

Market Research

Spanish

Translation

Editing

Newsletters

Qualitative Research

Teaching

Public Relations

Report Writing

Focus Groups

Proposal Writing

Press Releases

Proofreading

Marketing Communications

Copywriting

Research

Nonprofits

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Public Speaking

Social Media

Grant Writing

Marketing Strategy

Grants

Community Development

Creative Writing

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Postgraduate, English and Secondary Education

Activities and Societies: Academic Honors, Stolz Memorial Fellowship

Interests

- Award-winning author of 160 Ways to Help the World: Community Service Projects for Young People,

selected by the New York Public Library for “Books for the Teen Age,” also chosen as an Honor Book by the

Society of School Librarians International.

- Translated novel from Spanish to English, Long Live Music, published as an ebook on Amazon.com

- Volunteer PIO for Baha’i Faith community

- Fluent Spanish

- ESL education

- Solid computer skills (Office, databases)

- Multi-cultural background, extensive worldwide travel

- Volunteer training and translation for Project Safe

- Volunteer grant application review for the Jeanette Rankin Foundation

- Volunteer work for Rose of Athens Theater, NE Georgia Food Bank

- Volunteer moderator, Dialog: Racism

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Linda Leeb Duper

Communications Consultant at LLD Communications

ab9mzp@r.postjobfree.com

3 people have recommended Linda

"Linda is a wonderful partner and totally admirable project director. She is very attentive to detail, highly

organized, and she works her tail off to assure that projects come in on time and under budget. I can't

recommend her highly enough."

Lauren Lundgren, President, Infoco, Inc., managed Linda at Infoco, Inc

"Linda is a great editor."

Michael Banister, was Linda's client

"Over a two year period, I had the wonderful opportunity to work under Linda Duper at the Regional Baha'i

Council of the Western States and to contract her services as a communication consultant for Universal Arts.

I was most impressed with her keen intelligence, strategic thinking, confident decision making, meticulous

organization, excellent communication ability, dedication to quality service, and kind heart. She is a great

editor with a poet's sensibility. Her creative writing is compelling, humorous, honest and intimate.

Additionally, she was a great manager! She knew just how to motivate me to do my best work. The

environment she created was a reflection of her character: peaceful, creative, honest, joyful, loyal, full of

laughs, disciplined, efficient, motivating, down to earth, service oriented and humble. Honestly, I can't say

enough about Linda. I highly recommend her as a manager, a communication consultant, an editor, a creative

writer and a friend."

Kamal Sinclair, Data Analyst, Regional Baha'i Council of Wester States, reported to Linda at

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