Experience

Principal and Co-founder, The New Having It All, Los Angeles, CA 2007- Present

Speaking, consulting and individual mentoring on work-family balance and workforce re-entry. Ongoing development and creation of workshop publications and marketing materials for workshops, publications and individual mentoring sessions; co-write and publish weekly book review for email newsletter, RoadMaps; oversee design and creation of, and maintain website, www.thenewhavingitall.com; manage start-up accounting, legal and organizational structures; facility with Adobe Contribute, Publisher, Microsoft Excel, and Word

Director of Marketing and Development, Saint Anne School, Santa Monica, CA 2009-Present

Create and execute marketing and development strategy to increase enrollment and enhance fundraising and development for under-enrolled K-8 elementary school.

Grant Writer and Consultant, Solomon Goldsmith, Pacific Palisades, CA, 2007-2008

Researched funding sources, including Foundation Online database; authored letters of inquiry, letters of request and grant applications to private foundations and government entities for child literacy project and aquatic center project; successful $100,000 grant for Pasadena Collaborative Literacy Project

Freelance Writer, Los Angeles, CA 1994-2007

Published articles in L.A. Parent Magazine, Pockets Magazine, MotherVerse and numerous work-family blogs; attended writing conferences and UCLA Writing For Children program; Member, Society of Children’s Book Writers’ and Illustrators; Recipient, Middle Grade Novel Merit Award

Senior Litigation Associate, Goulston & Storrs, Boston, MA 1991-1994

Oversaw commercial and real estate litigation, injunctions and discovery; represented clients at trial, injunction hearings, and depositions; managed judicial conduct investigation; researched and wrote legal briefs and memoranda for motions, trials and client briefings; admitted to Massachusetts Bar, 1991

Litigation Associate, Miles & Stockbridge, Baltimore, MD 1987-1991

Oversaw and conducted business and real estate litigation, including employment and contract litigation, landlord-tenant and lease disputes, insurance defense and asbestos litigation; coordinated Summer Associate Program; served on Recruitment Committee; admitted to Maryland and Federal District Court Bars, 1987

Education

Boston College Law School, J.D., 1987, Newton, MA

New York University School of Law, 1984-85, New York, NY

Williams College, B.A., 1983, cum laude

Interests

Travel, theater, reading, writing, parenting