Rachel K. Adelson

Live Wire Communications

16 Mayvern Crescent, Richmond Hill ON L4C5J4 Canada

(905) 787-9812 / radelson@livewirecom.com

www.livewirecom.com

 

Award-winning senior writer/editor with Fortune 100, top-tier nonprofit and academic experience.  Produce accurate, clear and conversational print and electronic materials focusing on brain and behaviour, aging, and health and wellness. 

 

professional consulting (1992-Present).  Major clients have included:

 

American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.  Since 2001, promote behavioural science, vetting peer-reviewed studies, interviewing scientists and writing media releases on findings in Behavioral Neuroscience, Neuropsychology and Journal of Experimental Psychology.  Pickup has included The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, CNN, BBC, Time, Newsweek.  Cover research trends and applications for Monitor on Psychology and PsychologyMatters.org; wrote National Science Foundation proposal and speeches for association executives.

 

National Multiple Sclerosis Society, New York, N.Y.  Wrote articles for Inside MS magazine, including how to buy adaptive technology/durable medical equipment, MS and pregnancy, home retrofitting, universal design.  Two articles won 2004 National Health Information Awards.

 

Discovery Communications Inc., Silver Spring, Md.  For global media company, from 1996-2004, wrote lively, informative media materials promoting high-profile programs about human health and natural history, including Discovery News, Emmy-winning weekly science news show co-produced with NBC. 

 

Live Wire: Computer Confidence for Women.  Created and wrote monthly humor/how-to column on human-computer interaction for Women Today, circulation 40,000+ in the Washington, D.C. area; column ran 1996-1998.

 

Benton Foundation, Washington, D.C.  As multimedia campaign coordinator of ConnectforKids.com, oversaw 1996 launch of multimedia hub of community advocacy campaign for children.  Managed $500,000 AT&T grant.

 

IBM Corporation, Armonk, N.Y.  Among other contracts, wrote Wellness:  A Personal Investment, 14-page employee booklet endorsing preventive care and explaining IBM’s wellness, work/life and workplace safety programs.

 

Other clients have included A&E Networks, AT&T, America Online, Duke University, Electronic Learning Facilitators, Entrepreneur Publishing, Georgetown U, IBM Corporate and IBM Intranet, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, NIST, NC State University, Price Waterhouse, The Schema Therapy Institute, The Wharton School, UNC Health Care, Watson Wyatt. 

 

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT (1977-1991)

 

Communications Specialist/Program Manager, IBM Corporation (1981-1991)

 

·          Managing Editor, IBM Horizons, Somers, N.Y.  Led six-person editorial team of top-rated bimonthly magazine for 120,000 readers worldwide who developed and built information-technology products. 

·          Editor, IBM Management Report, Armonk, N.Y.  Edited quarterly journal for 40,000 managers worldwide; produced reports on joint ventures, site restructurings, intellectual property, more; pioneered use of “info-graphics.”

·          Executive Speechwriter, IBM Network Systems, White Plains, N.Y.  Wrote scores of strategy, policy and product speeches and video scripts for IBM senior vice president of network systems.  Honored for 1988 keynote on NSFNet.

·          Communications Specialist, Research Triangle Park, N.C.  At 10,000-person site, created Vital Signs magazine promoting   technical/professional development.  Produced executive speeches; wrote SiteLine business articles; oversaw technical-reports program.  Managed daily multi-tier program of news bulletins, electronic and print, for more than 130 work sites.

 

Editorial Assistant, Department of Family Medicine, Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center, Stony Brook, N.Y.  (1978-1979)  Edited physicians’ exam prep book, explained complicated medical concepts in simple, understandable English. 

 

Publishing Copywriter, Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., Woodbury, N.Y.  (1977-1978)

 

Public Relations Intern, Austin Child Guidance Center, Austin, Texas (1980-1981).  Prepared press releases, PSAs; created newsletter to promote the capital city’s largest child and family services agency.  Supervised undergraduate intern.

 

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Publications Edited

 

Marriott International PR Strategies (2001-2005)

myBusiness magazine section on technology for small business owners (2001)

Channels, Information Technology Resellers Association fax newsletter (1997-1998)

IBM Latin America News, IBM Retiree, IBM Workforce Solutions, IBM Employee Solutions (1993-1995)

IBM Think magazine, Contributing Editor (1992-1993)

AT&T Epitome (1992-1993)

IBM Horizons  (1989-1991)

IBM Management Report  (1988-1989)

IBM Vital Signs (1985-1986)

Publications Director, United Way of Wake County, N.C. (volunteer, 1984-1986)

IBM Research Triangle Park bulletin-board news (1981-1984)

New student publications, Office of New Student Orientation, Stony Brook University (1977)

Soundings, literary journal, Stony Brook University (1975-1977)

 

ARTICLE REPRINTS

 

Hard-Hitting Hormones:  The Stress-Depression Link.  Reprinted from Monitor on Psychology, January 2005.

            Depression Sourcebook, 2nd Edition.  Omnigraphics Health Reference Series, April 2008.   

            Stress-Related Disorders Sourcebook, 2nd Edition.  Omnigraphics Health Reference Series, September 2007. 

 

Instruction versus exploration in science learning:  Recent psychological research calls "discovery learning" into question.   Direct Instruction News, Spring 2005, Volume 1, p. 31 (www. http://adihome.org).  Reprinted from Monitor on Psychology, June 2004.

 

Mending Memory.  Annual Editions:  Psychology, 2008/2009 and 2007/2008 Editions.   McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series.  Reprinted from Monitor on Psychology, September 2005.

 

The Power of Potent Steroids.  Annual Editions:  Drugs, Society and Behavior, 2007/2008 Edition.  McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series.  Reprinted from Monitor on Psychology, July/August 2005.

 

EDUCATION

 

Interdisciplinary Certificate in Aging, University of North Carolina.  Honors student in 15-credit graduate program.

 

Certificate in Core Public Health Concepts, University of North Carolina School of Public Health.  15 credits; all honors.

 

M.A. in Journalism, University of Texas at Austin.  Graduate Fellowships, Sigma Chi Delta (journalism honors).  Presented Magazine Coverage of Mental Illness at Association for Education in Journalism national conference. 

 

B.A. in Psychology, high honors, State University of New York at Stony Brook.  Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi.  Editor in Chief, Soundings literary journal; feature writer, Fortnight magazine.

 

AWARDS AND AFFILIATIONS

 

§          Member, Canadian Association of Science Writers

§          2004 National Health Information Awards, Solving Problems of the Toilet World, MS & Pregnancy

§          2004 Clarion Award, Association for Women in Communications, InsideMS,  “…Toilet World”

§          Association for Women in Computing, National Capital Chapter, publicity VP, 1997-1998.

§          1986 Clarion Award, Women in Communications, Best Magazine Article, Data Communications

§          Numerous IBM awards

 

PERSONAL

 

U.S. citizen and Permanent Resident of Canada                                                                                      02/08