Education:
Columbia University, New York, NY, Master of Science, Journalism, May 1979
Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA, Bachelor of Arts, English, June 1974
Clark University Computer Career Institute, Braintree, MA, Sept.-Dec. 1999 Certificate in web design and computer graphics, 300-hour, intensive training program in graphic design for web and print applications.
Experience
Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston, 111 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, Senior Editor / Special Projects, 2001 to present. The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston is a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank System.
- Develop multimedia projects for the Bank's Web site (fhlbboston.com).
- Designed and built the multimedia Profiles section of the fhlbboston.com Web site.
- Designed and built the multimedia Solutions section of the Bank's Web site.
- Contribute documentary photography and writing to the Bank's Advisory Council Annual Report.
- Contribute writing and photography to the Bank's Results publication.
- Use writing, editing, photography (digital and film), video, audio, and Web-design skills to create Bank publications.
ScreamDesign.com, 29 Hudson Road, Sudbury, MA, Managing Editor and Creator of an online Internet magazine, April 2000 to Dec. 2000.
- Wrote feature stories on a broad range of Internet subjects.
- Recorded in-depth interviews with the creators and designers of the Internet.
- Created HTML pages and Photoshop graphics for the Web site. Took photographs to accompany stories.
- Edited a daily news wire highlighting stories on the development of the Internet worldwide. Updated the site daily.
- Created an in-depth web-building tutorial for the site's Learning Center
- Edited general content for the web site.
Sampan Newspaper and Online Magazine, 87 Tyler Street, Boston, MA, Managing Editor, Editor, Writer, Photographer, Graphic Designer, 1988 to 1989; 1992 to Sept. 1999.
- Produced the English version of New England's only biweekly, bilingual Chinese-English newspaper based in Boston's Chinatown. Created and designed the first online version of the newspaper.
- Produced photo-text documentaries on Asian ethnic communities (Vietnamese, Cambodian, Chinese, etc.) of Boston.
- Produced book reviews, film reviews, and profiles of film directors, writers, artists, political figures, etc.
- Regularly redesigned web and print publications.
Freelance Writer and Photographer, 1986 to Present.
- Boston Globe Correspondent (Focus, Home, City Weekly, and Learning sections).
- Christian Science Monitor
- Freelance photographs have appeared in the Boston Globe and in various newspapers as a stringer for United Press International.
Special Projects
- Dragon Bay (Long Wan): A book-length photo-text documentary on a village in southern China.
- Soul Journals
Exhibitions (Photographs and Text)
- Long Wan: A Portrait of a Chinese Village: Boston Public Library, Main Hall, Copley Square, April 1997; Chinese Culture Institute, Boston, Sept. 6-Oct. 31, 1996.
Newspapers
- Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, MA, Reporter/Photographer, 1981-82.
Covered the Town of Easthampton for the Gazette, a 20,000-circulation afternoon daily; provided up to four stories (photo-text) daily.
- Worcester News Recorder, Worcester MA, 1974-75, Writer and Photographer.
Other
- Lei Zhou Teacher's College, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China, English Teacher, 1989-1991.
- Providence College, Prov., RI, Taught Introduction to Journalism course to undergraduates, 1997-98.
Languages
- A working knowledge of Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.
