: About Me

Stephanie Harwood is a professional communicator who has enjoyed working with non-profits, corporations and agencies. Her work has included communications management; corporate, marketing, and crisis communications; media relations, professional development, writing and editing. She has been a consultant and freelance writer since 2003.

She was formerly VP, Communications for the March of Dimes Foundation, furthering national public health education and supporting field communications and government affairs. While there she served as Co-Chair of the Media Working Group, National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit and as a member of the National Coalition for Folic Acid Communications Committee.

She has also been VP, Corporate Communications at Porter Novelli, an Omnicom Group company, handling internal and external communications for Porter Novelli operations. This included a re-branding in 40 countries and the company's first Web site and Intranet.

Other posts include A.B. Isacson Associates, working with Fortune companies such as Georgia-Pacific, BOC and Sonoco Products, and The Manion Firm, which specialized in professional services, real estate, financial services and health care.

She's an accredited (APR) member of the Public Relations Society of America, a member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and the National Public Health Information Coalition, and serves on the Professional Advisory Board, Mass Communications, for Iona College.

She majored in English Literature at U.S. International University (minor Philosophy) and is completing an MS in Communications Management from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University.

My passion is ...

Learning, reading and writing!

My parents always told me ...

"Go look it up!"

Why I write ...

because I can't imagine what it would be like not to.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

NPR, Lehrer News Hour, Headhunting in the Solomon Islands, by Caroline Mytinger, The Silk Road Ensemble

My first job ...

Working on a cattle ranch in Arizona

Entertainment > Movie Genres Top ten food movies

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The film Julie & Julia, which grew out of Julie Powell's memoir about her attempts to prepare every recipe in Julia Childs's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, has joined the memorable list of "food movies." In these films it's all about food: its preparation, its consumption, its effects on the characters. (And on the viewer; one film critic has written: "Warning: Do not see J&J on an empty stomach.") But food movies are not cooking shows. As in good food writing, it's the narrative around the food that captivates, and in the end, of course, it's about us. And there are some goo...

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