My professional background includes three decades of work as a journalist, author, editor, and teacher. In print, my investigative features have appeared in The New Yorker and other national publications; in broadcast, I was a staff reporter and writer for the PBS series FRONTLINE. My reporting on the global traffic in stolen art was cited in a New York Times editorial. A four-time recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, I also received the Massachusetts Artist Foundation's fiction prize. As an editor, my experience has encompassed all aspects and phases of publishing and includes award-winning exhibition catalogues for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, academic and trade books on environmental justice, political science, and art history, as well as a stint as editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine, Common Ground. I was lead editor and writer for successful, multi-year federal and private foundation grants awarded to Bay Area arts, social service, and education non-profits. I have served as an education writer and editor for WestEd and the National Writing Project, where I researched and wrote Because Writing Matters, a Jossey-Bass best seller. At Harvard University, my writing courses received commendations for teaching excellence, and I directed the writing program at the New England Conservatory of Music. I am currently producing Of Color and Ink, a documentary on the Chinese painter and forger Chang Dai-ch’ien (1899-1983) and am a contributing writer for the West Marin Review, an award winning all-volunteer arts and literary magazine, now in its tenth year.