Jan. 2000 - Present            NEWSDAY                                               Melville, NY

Senior Slot Editor for High School Sports

§      Four-time winner of Editor Prizes for headlines and deadline catches at eighth-largest newspaper in America.

§      Mentored young writers in style, grammar, news judgment, critical thinking.

§      Improved copy, as many as 200,000 words a night, on every sport from archery to wrestling.

Staff Sports Writer

§      Chronicled sudden death of an NFL prospect.

§      Wrote weekly column on college athletes, including one whose story of overcoming blindness earned special commendation for Publisher’s Award.

§      Interviewed and built working relationships with student-athletes at 150 high schools and 20 local colleges.

Business Desk Intern

§      Reported graduate students’ attempts to unionize, online magazines that crossed over to print, financial quarterlies and obituaries of area entrepreneurs.

July 2003 - present            STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY     Stony Brook, NY

M.A.T., English Education

§      Degree expected in May, 2005. Holding 3.93 GPA.

§      Tutored speakers of 67 languages in close reading, essay writing, grammar, note-taking and resume building at Writing Center.

§      Joined National Council of Teachers of English.

Sept. 1996 – May 2000     NEW YORK UNIVERSITY                New York, NY

B.A., Journalism with minors in Italian and English & American Literature

§      Won C.V. Starr and College of Arts & Science Trustees’ scholarships for excellence in social sciences. Named to Dean’s List and Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism Honor Society for 3.38 GPA and 3.80 in major.

§      Built online job bank for Italian environmental society in Florence.

§      Trained 12-person staff, revamped layout, and covered two national championship teams as sports editor of student-run Washington Square News.

§      Tutored at College of New Rochelle ­(Co-Op City Campus).

§      Proficient in spoken and written Italian.

§      Won New York State’s Gold Medal for poetry. Named finalist for the Kansas City Star Ernest Hemingway sports writing competition. Earned honorable mention at Bread Loaf Young Writer’s Conference.

§      Published in Albany Times-Union, Chicago Tribune, Queens Chronicle, Queens Courier, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Syracuse Post-Standard and Wichita Eagle.

§      Skilled with Internet research, Web site and page design.

July 2003 – present           STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY     Stony Brook, NY

§    Human Development, Renaissance Drama, Education Theory & Practice, 20^th Century British Literature, Methods of Instruction in Literature & Composition, History of the English Language, Problems in Teaching Writing, British Literature II, Shakespeare, Language & Literacy Development, Adolescent Literature, Performance & Technology in the Teaching of Literature & Composition.

Sept. 1996 – May 2000     NEW YORK UNIVERSITY                New York, NY

§    Western Conversations in Antiquity & the 19^th Century, Russian History & Culture, Hinduism, Buddhism & Taoism, Literary Interpretation, British Literature I, American Literature I, Words, Media in America, Economics & Polity, Modern Art, Film as Literature, History of the Media, Feature Article, Etymology, Online Magazine, Methods of Media Criticism.

Aug. 1999 – Dec. 1999     LA PIETRA                                            Florence, Italy

§    Intensive Intermediate Italian, History of Modern Italy since 1815.

Sept. 1992 – June 1996     JERICHO HIGH SCHOOL                   Jericho, NY

§    Advanced Placement European History, Advanced Placement Language & Composition, Advanced Placement U.S. History & Government, Advanced Placement Literature & Composition, Syracuse University Project Advance Economic Ideas & Issues, Syracuse University Project Advance Introduction to Analysis of Public Policy, Syracuse University Project Advance Foundations of Human Behavior, Syracuse University Project Advance Sociological Perspective on Human Behavior.