ILLUSTRATION AND DESIGN EXPERIENCE

Annual Reviews. Illustration editor. Palo Alto, CA. 2005-present.
• Create publication-ready digital illustrations from author-submitted figures, maximizing clarity, consistency, and quality.
• Manage illustration production cycle for a diverse array of scientific review volumes, collaborating with scientists and hiring/overseeing freelance illustrators as needed to meet project deadlines.

Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University. Freelance graphic designer. 2005–present.
• Art direct, design, project manage, and edit the 32-page full-color JRBP Annual Report (2005, 2006, and 2007 editions).

University of California, Santa Cruz. Freelance illustrator. 2005-7.
• Rendered over 100 figures, including diagrams, maps, and illustrations of plants, animals, fungi, and lichens for The Natural History of the UC Santa Cruz Campus (2nd edition).

Educational Publishing Services, Inc. Freelance illustrator and art developer. 2005
• Digitally rendered illustrations in Photoshop for an introductory biology textbook.
• Analyzed and critiqued existing figures, provided conceptual sketches for new illustrations, and collaborated with the author and art director as a Lead Illustrator for the art development of a major college biology textbook.

Bishop Museum. Biological illustration intern. Honolulu, HI. October-December 2004.
• Designed and created digital illustrations of taro plant life cycle and anatomy for computerized key.
• Rendered numerous plant species in pen and ink for a book on common wetland plants of Oahu.
• Illustrated 12 arthropods and mollusks in pen and ink for use in an educational key.

Scientific American magazine. Art/design intern. New York, NY. June-September 2004.
• Art directed and designed two full-length articles and several short departments.
• Created numerous digital illustrations, graphs, and diagrams for publication in four issues.

Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Freelance illustrator. Palo Alto, CA. June 2004.
• Painted a commissioned series of six paintings of local birds in their habitats.

Harvard University Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. Freelance illustrator. Palo Alto, CA. January-May 2004.
• Illustrated life cycles, habits, and range maps of several plant species for scientific publication.

Island Press. Art Director of educational CD-ROM: Conserving Earth’s Biodiversity with E.O. Wilson. Boston, MA, and La Honda, CA. 1996-1999.
• Designed graphics and typography of entire program; completed all page layout using PageMaker.
• Generated line art, maps, and other graphics by hand or by using Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Selected and corrected all photographs. Codesigned interactive models and activities.
• Wrote and edited audio and video scripts and portions of the program’s text.

SKILLS

Computer:
• Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Pagemaker, Acrobat, Premiere.
• Quark XPress; Macromedia Dreamweaver; Corel Painter.
• Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.
• Experienced with Macintosh or Windows operating systems; flatbed scanning; photo correcting; fiery printing; research, permissions, and copyrights for illustrations/photos.

Traditional media:
• Watercolor, pen and ink, acrylic, gouache, graphite, scratchboard.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Freelance proofreader and copyeditor. Boston, MA and Palo Alto, CA. 1994-present.
• Familiar with Chicago Manual of Style and Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual.
• Proofread and copyedit book manuscripts, pre-submission scientific papers, master's and college theses, grant applications, and other academic papers.
• Edited companion web site and teaching guide for PBS science/ethics documentary (Bloodlines: Technology Hits Home, written and directed by Noel Schwerin). 2003.
• Edited manuscript of Hawaiian natural history text (By Wind, By Wave. D. Eyre. Honolulu, Hawaii: Bess Press). Rewrote several sections on evolutionary biology. 1998.

Senior copywriter. Beeline Group, Newark, CA. 2000-2003.
• Wrote and reviewed text for retail displays and in-store merchandising, from ad-style signage to technical product brochures. Worked with graphic designers and art directors to develop concepts and implement creative themes for product launches, brand identities, and interactive demos.
• Proofread documents and graphic layouts for spelling, grammar, usage, formatting, and consistency. Ensured accuracy of content and adherence to client-specific style rules.

Biology research assistant. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, fall 1999-spring 2000; Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, CO, summers 1995, 1996, 1999; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1992-6.
• Conducted plant ecology, physiology, and evolution research in the field and in greenhouses.
• Managed experiments, harvested plants, collected and entered data, provided advice on experimental design and practice, and attended lab meetings.

EDUCATION

University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. Graduate Certificate in Science Illustration, 2004.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. B.A. in biology, cum laude, 1996.

AFFILIATIONS

Guild of Natural Science Illustrators.
American Society of Botanical Artists.
California Native Plant Society.

EXHIBITS

Alumnae Art Show. Group show. Anita Seipp Gallery of Castilleja School, Palo Alto CA. April–May 2008.

Filoli Ninth Annual Botanical Art Exhibition. Juried group show. Filoli, Woodside CA. June–July 2007.

GNSI-California. Group show. AWE Gallery, San Francisco CA. January 2007.

Bidwell Park and Beyond: Scientific Illustrators Explore the Meaning of Parks and Public Green Space. Group show. Chico Creek Nature Center, Chico CA. October 2006–May 2007.

Filoli Eighth Annual Botanical Art Exhibition. Juried group show. Filoli, Woodside CA. June–July 2006.

Filoli Seventh Annual Botanical Art Exhibition. Juried group show. Filoli, Woodside CA. July–August 2005.

Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Exhibition. Juried group show. The Art Institute of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ. November 2004–January 2005.

Illustrating Nature. Group show. Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, Santa Cruz CA. April–June 2004.