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MAIA HIRSCHLER

****.*********@*****.*** 917-***-**** Pronouns: She/her/hers

Summary Proofreader and bibliophile motivated to apply education, research and copy-editing abilities to projects in social justice, publishing, and sports media. Eager to learn new skills and advance knowledge with hands-on experience. Bilingual in French and proficient in Adobe InCopy with advanced interpersonal abilities.

Skills • Copy-editing and proofreading

• Research

• Translation (French-English, English-French)

• AP Style Guide

• MS Office

• Leadership

• Adobe InCopy

Experience Translator 11/2020 - Current

Rosenberg and Co. Gallery New York, NY

• Translate artist biographies, art essays, historical documents and interviews from French to English and English to French for a full-length book for the exhibition Dina Vierny — A Life of Art and Resistance, at Rosenberg and Co. in collaboration with the Musée Maillol in Paris. Model Analyst, French 10/2020 - Current

Welocalize New York, NY

• Drive Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technologies to enable intent-driven user experiences.

• Check machine-generated English-French translations, enhance training data with new translations to expand chatbot vocabulary and improve user experience, collaborate day-to-day with product managers and analysts to provide error analysis and improve the quality of models. Development Intern 06/2019 - 08/2019

EcoHealth Alliance New York, NY

• Assisted with creation of the organization's Annual Report, including writing copy and reimagining formatting, and wrote blogposts summarizing EcoHealth Alliance's research and impacts. Freelance Editor 03/2019 - 05/2019

The Atlantic Charter New York, NY

• Provided feedback, copy-edited, formatted and fact-checked a 200-page manuscript about Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill's meeting about the Atlantic Charter. Editorial and Digital Production Intern 01/2017 - 04/2017 Yale University Press New Haven, CT

• Assisted with creation of a unique e-portal for art and architectural history books, for which the Press received an $840,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, proofed uploaded manuscripts, edited back-end code to fix footnotes and typographical errors, and provided feedback on user interface and experience.

Tent Counselor 06/2011 - 08/2017

Aloha Foundation Fairlee, VT

• Used tenets of experiential education at seven-week outdoor camp to teach 250 girls, ages 12-16, leadership, self-reliance and teamwork; as Department Head, managed a staff of 10, planned and led trips, and organized schedule and activities for roughly 100 campers a day. Education and

Training

Bachelor of Arts: Literature 05/2017

Yale University

• GPA: 3.91, Magna Cum Laude, with distinction in the major, Alvin B. Kernan Prize for best thesis in the major, ORLO creative writing award

• Education Studies Scholar

Languages French (native speaker), Italian (basic), Latin (advanced)

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