I am a freelance writer who has also been on staff as a reporter, managing editor, and in book acquisitions at McGraw-Hill, Excerpta Medica, and Simon & Schuster. The first article I published was in Ophthalmology Times about a physician working for the Helen Keller Institute in Africa. As a freelance writer I have published in Transitions Abroad, the Asbury Park Press, Helium.com, AssociatedContent.com, DemandStudios.com, and InsightReuters.com. I have also published a poem in the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal and was a semi-finalist in the Nation magazine's Discovery poetry contest, 2001. I am a winner in the Pulitzer Center 2008 Global Issues contest. I have also taught World & American Literature.

My volunteer work includes: working in an Emergency Room, donating blood, raising funds for UNICEF, presenting seminars for the Red Cross, and mailing packages to soldiers.

I have a B.A. degree in English Education and graduate credits in law and psychology.

My passion is ...

writing

My childhood ambition ...

to write and to travel

My favorite memory ...

First trip to London.

My first job ...

First real job: Reporter

My inspiration ...

Helen Thomas

Politics, News & Issues > News (Other) Does government have a role in overseeing the release of results from federally funded science, or does the public have the right to view such information unfiltered

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The American public must have unfettered access to the results of federally funded science research. Why? Because the government is secretive, lies, and twists scientific statistics and data to support their political agenda.

America currently distrusts the President and his administration. He has been caught in many lies and many instances of providing misleading data to the American public, such as the claims about weapons of mass destruction that led to the start of the Iraq war.

Federally funded scientific research is crucial to the strength of our nation. Our scientists are har...

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