Experience

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The New Yorker magazine (cartoons)
The New Republic magazine (cartoons, reporting, editing)
Mother Jones magazine (reporting, editing)
Narrative magazine (cartoons)
Alta magazine (cartoons)
The Believer magazine (editing)
The American Prospect magazine (editing)
The San Francisco Bay Guardian (reporting, editing)
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (graduate-level instruction in digital animation)
Graverobber Productions (storyboard, 2D character animation)
Consumer Financial Service Corporation (copywriting collateral for Fortune 500 and other companies)
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (editing marketing collateral)
Wise World Prep higher-education consultants (application-essay consulting)

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Degrees
Harvard University — BA English, Phi Beta Kappa, top GPA among English majors
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television — MFA Animation

Supplementary coursework 
Rhode Island School of Design (digital and traditional illustration)
UC Berkeley (anatomy, portraiture)
California College of Art (illustration and freelance business practices)
San Francisco State University (2D digital animation)
Stanford University (fiction writing)

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Software skills (advanced)
Pro Tools
Photoshop 
TVPaint
Premiere
Office
​Animate
After Effects
​Google Cloud apps

Software skills (basic)
​Toonboom
Illustrator​
Flix
Final Cut Pro
​Final Draft
SketchUp

Traditional media skills
Writing (scripts, grants, fiction, organizational communications, personal statements)
Editing (structure, line, fact-checking, copy editing, proofreading)
Illustration
Cartooning
Life drawing
​Comics
Watercolor
Colored Pencil
Line drawing
Music composition, arranging, and performance
Music theory
Sound editing

Teaching
Traditional animation principles
2D digital animation
Story development
Storyboarding
Directing for animation
​Audio recording
Sound effects and dialogue editing
Postproduction audio
​Figure drawing
Essay writing and revision
Grant writing