Office Quality

Objective

Work involving writing and communications for a general audience on behalf of a cause or

institution that I can passionately support and advocate for.

Experience

Senior Features Editor, then Contributing Editor / Film Critic, ELLE 2000-2018

■Assigned or wrote and edited movie and book reviews in INTEL, ELLE’s pop-culture short-feature section

■Assigned and wrote features essays, profiles, Q&As, reported pieces (politics, psychology, current affairs)

■From 2015 through 2017, wrote ELLE’s movie reviews and related features and interviews, and additionally wrote and edited features on other topics (books, politics, psychology, health, profiles of interesting thought leaders)

Education

Brandeis University, graduate program in Politics, ABD

Completed coursework, field examinations, and orals in political philosophy, international political economy, and comparative politics; did extensive research on early Soviet education reform and related historical material

Stanford University: B.A. with distinction in Political Science; B.A. with distinction in

Slavic Languages and Literatures

With Honors in the Program in Social Thought and Institutions; Phi Beta Kappa

Skills

■Familiarity with the standard suite of office computer software

■Strong facility and extensive experience in research, reporting, writing, and editing

■Ability to quickly compose and edit grammatically/typographically meticulous copy-edited-quality content

Writing clips and reference contacts available upon request or view at

https://www.elle.com/author/4931/ben-dickinson/ and at my LinkedIn profile

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