University of Minnesota Duluth Experience:

• Retired on 6/10/2016!
• 3/96 to 6/16: Chief of Staff to the Chancellor
•  1/09 to 5/13: Instructor, Journalism 3300: News Photography, a three-credit journalism course
•  1/05 to 12/12: Instructor, Journalism 2001: Reporting and Editing I, a three-credit journalism course
•  10/90 to 3/96: Alumni Director, University Relations
•  8/90 to 10/90: Acting Director, Alumni and Media Relations
•  11/84 to 10/90: Publications Director, Alumni and Media Relations
•  3/89 to 5/94: Taught Publications Editing, a three-credit spring quarter journalism course
•  6/85 to 6/90: Volunteer editorial adviser, Statesman student newspaper

 
Freelance Experience:

Lake Superior Magazine

• Superior Golf, July 1991
• Italian Families Create Superior Cuisine: Mi Casa, Casa de Roma, and one photograph, February-March 1991
• Welcoming a Superior Winter: Downhill Skiing, December-January 1991
• Snowmobiling Revisited: Lake Superior Beckons with Thousands of Miles of Trails December-January 1990
• The Few, The Proud -- The Handlers: Volunteering for the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon can be Habit-forming, and two photographs, November-December 1987
• Higher Education in Duluth-Superior, September-October 1987
• Whitewater Rafting on the St. Louis River, two photographs, July-July August 1986

Weight Watchers Magazine

• Sledding Toward Slim, and one photograph, December 1987

​Minneapolis Star Tribune

• Kayaking photograph, July 1987

 
Duluth News-Tribune
Several business articles for Outlook special sections on economic development published in the springs of 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992

Children's Magic Window Magazine

• Reaching the Top: Mountain-climbing Sisters, May/June 1987
• Wyoming: The Cowboy State, and two photographs, January/February 1987

 
Minnesota Explorer, newspaper for the Minnesota Office of Tourism

• Novices Can Explore Lake Superior by Kayak, Spring 1991
• Excursion Trains Keep Railroad Heritage Alive, Spring 1991

Minnesota Times newspaper

• Blustery campaign blows through Duluth, November 1987
• Some notes from the North Shore,² December 1987/January 1988

 
Weight Watchers New You newspaper

• Lifetime Member Competes in Sled Dog Marathon, and two photographs, March-April 1987

 
The New North Times journal of northeastern Minnesota public affairs

• Northeastern Minnesota Women Work to End Domestic Violence, Winter 1990
• Feature photograph, Winter 1989
• Business photograph, Summer 1988

The Duluthian, Duluth Chamber of Commerce magazine

• Making Things Clear, September-October 1988
• The Horses Wear Hats, July-August 1988
• For the Kid in Everyone, November-December 1987
• Making a Point, September-October 1987

​Action Photos:
5/86 to 9/87: Owned, operated Action Photos, a business that involved photographing and selling prints to whitewater rafters, kayakers on the St. Louis River
 
Newspaper Experience:

• 9/83 to 9/84: One-person bureau in Sheridan, Wyo., for the Billings Gazette in Billings, Mont.
• 3/81 to 9/83: Assistant state editor at the Billings Gazette in Billings, Mont.
• 3/80 to 3/81: Managing editor of the Williston Daily Herald, Plains Reporter (weekly) and the Williston Basin Reporter (bi-weekly), all in Williston, N.D.
• 11/79 to 3/80: Assistant managing editor/Sunday editor at the Williston Daily Herald
• 6/79 to 11/79: Reporter, business editor at the Williston Daily Herald
•  11/78 to 6/79: Assistant editor at the Northeaster newspaper in Minneapolis

Education:

•  Master of Education in Educational Computing and Technology, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2001.
• Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, 1979.