Writing Vitae

Wrote script for Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal, a one-hour documentary film co-produced and co-directed by Lynn Woods and Stephen Blauweiss, completed October 2016
Co-author, Adirondack Style: Great Camps and Rustic Lodges, Universe Books, division of Rizzoli, 2011
Art critic and contributor to Luminary Publishing’s Chronogram, Upstate House and Upstater and Ulster Publishing’s Almanac Weekly, Kingston Times and Saugerties Times, 2009–present. Interviewed such high-profile artists as Milton Glaser, Joan Snyder and Yo Yo Ma and reviewed exhibitions at local galleries as well as MASS MoCA, Dia: Beacon and Jack Shainman’s The School

Travelmarket Report
Hudson Valley Business, staff reporter 2007–08
Corporate Legal Times
Expedia, travel columnist, 2000–02
Regular contributor to Global Business Journal, published by the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, 1997–2008; Business Travel News, contributing editor and reporter, 1995–2005; and Travel Professional, published by The Travel Institute
Observer-Dispatch, Utica, NY, travel columnist, 1986–87

Communications director for Kingston’s Main Street Manager, an initiative funded by the Business Alliance of Kingston to support local business, historic preservation and arts-related projects, 2008–10
Writer and/or publicist for the following organizations, among others: Kingston’s Midtown Arts District, kingstonhappenings.org, Andrade Architecture, Tech City, Orange County Business Accelerator, Ulster County Quadricentennial Arts Committee (wrote content for website, www.hudsonriver400.org, grant report, press releases and radio spots), Donskoj & Co. Gallery

Panelist for Q&A sessions following many of the Lost Rondout screenings, including these venues: Cooper Union, Columbia University’s Graduate Department of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Madison Theatre (sponsored by University of Albany), BronxArtSpace (sponsored by New York Preservation Archive), Rosendale Theatre, Downing Film Center (in Newburgh, NY), and Woodland Pond (senior citizen community in New Paltz, NY)
Presenter, Oral History & The City, 2017 conference at Columbia University sponsored by Oral History Mid-Atlantic Region
Participant, Chronogram Conversation panel, “New paradigms in Economic Development: How our past can inform our future,” held in Kingston, NY, Oct. 12, 2017
Participant, Art 21 panel at Kingston High School, Oct. 8, 2009
Lecturer on Prohibition in the 1920s at the Adirondack Museum, in Blue Mountain Lake, NY, Aug. 12, 2005
Taught a seminar on travel writing, Ulster County BOCES, June 2000

2017 Special Citation, Ulster County Executive’s Arts Awards for Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal
2015 Excellence in Historic Preservation Award from Friends of Historic Kingston for Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal
Bronze in public issues reporting from the International Regional Magazine Association for “It Takes a Village,” article in Adirondack Life, August 2000 issue
Silver in historical reporting category from the International Regional Magazine Association for “An Auto Biography,” article in Adirondack Life, May 1996 issue

Channel Five’s “Good Day New York,” interview with Stephen Blauweiss, Sept. 26, 2016
Featured on talk radio shows with host Shayne Gallo on WKNY, Doug Grunther on WDST and Chris Acosta and Gary Bishoff on WGHQ, 2016–17
North Country Public Radio, based in Canton, NY, “Kingston Artist Finds Beauty in the Ordinary,” interview about Old Forge Library art show, Aug. 28, 2006
Radio station WGNY, based in Newburgh, NY, discussing public art in the Hudson Valley, 2000
Cablevision’s “In the Money,” discussing travel deals, 1998
“Good Morning America,” discussing travel booking tips, 1993

Associate editor, Frequent Flyer magazine, 1991–93
Editor, monthly membership magazine for public radio and TV channel WNYC, 1990–91
Associate articles editor, Redbook, 1989–90
Copy editor, Diversion magazine, 1987–89
Associate editor at two travel magazines published for Amoco Oil company’s motor and travel clubs, 1983–85

Author of “Living History” chapter in “A Journey through Lower Esopus Creek,” published by Lower Esopus Watershed Project, 2009
Author of booklet on Dutch historic houses in Ulster County, published by Hudson Valley Heritage in conjunction with October 2009 house tour
Authored numerous white papers that were presented at the Association of Corporate Travel Executives’ international conferences (2005-08). Clients included MasterCard, Amadeus, a travel information technology company based in Madrid, Spain, and AirPlus, provider of flight credit cards to companies
Contributed to New York State and Fairfield County, Connecticut, tourism guides
Contributed to newsletters published by American Express, 1994–2000

B.A. from Barnard College in art history, 1978, graduated cum laude