Marketing Communications Copy Editor

CORINNA FALES

*******.*****@*****.*** Chapel Hill, NC C: 646-***-****

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Profile

Writer/editor with demonstrated success in collaborating internationally and with diverse and non-native English speakers to deliver clear, concise, accurate reports. Equally proficient working independently or with a team; strong work and social ethics, integrity, discretion. Selected Positions

Accelerating Support to Advanced Local Partners (ASAP), IntraHealth Int’l. 2022 – November 2024

Communications Consultant, Editor/Writer for Development Comms Collaborate with ASAP’s central team and local advisors at healthcare organizations in

(currently) 11 African countries to sharpen and elevate their English-language progress reports to USAID (including monthly, quarterly, annual, conference, trip, meeting, and final reports, as well as manuals, success stories, PowerPoints, and comprehensive capacity assessments). The Comms team received special acclaim from USAID.

Drossman Center for the Education and Practice of Biopsychosocial Care 2020

Writer/Editor

Collaborated with a renowned gastroenterologist and a patient advocate to produce Gut Feelings—Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction and the Patient-Doctor Relationship, a 232-page plain-language guide for patients and physicians, now widely available. New York City Department of Social Services – HR Customer Care Solutions 2015 – 2018

Senior Writer/Editor for Procedures and Communications Applied plain English and house style to edit/update/clarify policies, procedures, manuals, bulletins, and guidelines for the agency’s 16,000 employees from 80+ countries, some of whom were non-native English speakers; and produced agencywide health newsletter and campaign. Columbia University

2012-2015

Assistant to the Editor, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering (JMSE) Managed journal submissions; raised JMSE’s impact factor by 1/3; reduced processing time by

. Liaised with content editor (a Columbia University engineering professor), 20 associate editors, guest editors, authors from 180+ countries, international peer reviewers, and production personnel; wrote tributes, extracted information for annual report. CORINNA FALES

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Virtual Clinical Research Center, University of Arizona College of Medicine 2013

Writer/Editor: Teacher Handbook for Science Curriculum Wrote/edited a two-part plain-English handbook for high-school teachers to pilot a cutting- edge, NIH-funded science curriculum in low-income schools: (1) how to ask good questions for research, (2) what translational research is.

Forensic Psychiatrists at Universität Bern, Switzerland (Michael Liebrenz, Prof. Dr. med., et al.) 2013

Editor

Re-worded submissions of Swiss psychiatrists to English-language medical journals that had been rejected for unsatisfactory writing; they were then accepted for publication. Education & Training

o MA, Social Policy; SUNY; BS, Social Theory, Social Structure & Change, SUNY o Audio description (certificate), American Association of the Blind, Audio Description Workshop o Lenox Hill Hospital Psychotherapy Program, NYC (satisfactory completion of 4-year course) Selected Additional Experience

o TEDx speaker (TEDxWoodinville): “Rethinking Political Correctness,” 2024 https://youtu.be/r6aZqbV82fQ

o Keynote: “Difference & Belonging,” Duke University, Patient Revenue Management Organization; MLK Day 2019

o Special guest speaker: Different: Our Universal Longing for Community; Lincoln University Convocation, January 2018

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