International Programs at the University of Missouri, USA (2007)
Click on the titles below for samples from my stint as senior staff writer for the Office of the Vice Provost for International Programs. The position was a short-term contract in an office with severe budget and personnel restrictions, but I remain affiliated with them post-contract on an as needed basis. The "lite" items listed below were for an online newsletter that had lain dormant for a year. Please note that I had nothing to do with the layout of the webpage or the newsletter format itself.

Pieces I wrote under my by-line:

• Climbing Mountains in the Rich Literary Landscape of Cuba
• Postdoctoral Research is World Class at MU
• MU Professor Receives Latvian Award for Collaborative Research in Rural Development
• Bringing the United Nations to Mid-Missouri
• Developing International Linkages in Veterinary Medicine

Pieces attributed to other people but which I re-wrote almost entirely as editor:

• Grand Songkran Thai New Year & Water Festival Makes a Big Splash at MU
• First Person: Overview of the HACU Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas
• Glober-Trotting with the Heppners
• Local Families Host International Students over Thanksgiving Holiday Break
• European Union Center Names First EU Fellows

My longer format articles are for an in-house magazine that is awaiting budgetary decisions. I will post them when they are released, but if you would like to see a sample now, just send me an email.

International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), Netherlands (1999-2000)
Below are the most importnt projects I completed as editor while ISNAR was still a stand-alone CGIAR center based in Den Haag (it has since been reorganized under IFPRI). It was my first professional endeavour after having the baby, so it was fitting that I replaced the regular editor while she was on maternity leave. After the contract was over, I did additional work for ISNAR on a freelance basis.

• EVALUATING RESEARCH ON NATURAL RESOURCEMANAGEMENT: THE CASE OF SOIL FERTILITYMANAGEMENT IN KENYA (Briefing Paper 41)
  by S. W. Omamo, D. W. Kilambya, and S. Nandwa
• AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CAPACITY IN FOUR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (Briefing Paper 42)
  by Cesar A. Falconi
• PRIORITY SETTING IN AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH (Research Report 16)
  by T. Braunschweig   (PDF file size 554 KB)
• AGRICULTURAL R&D IN THE CARIBBEAN (Research Report 19)
  by J. Roseboom, M. Cremers, and B. Lauckner  (PDF file size 446 KB)

Freelance Work
Copy Editing (1999-2000) for ISNAR, Institute of Social Studies (ISS), and historian Peter Schreurs MSC, Netherlands.
Freelance Writing (1990-1993) for Hawaii Filipino Chronicle in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Fiction Editor, Hawai`i Review literary journal, Honolulu, USA (1993-1994)
Managed contributions in fiction from all over the Pacific and continental United States; worked with incarcerated writers affiliated with local creative writing projects; cleared three-year editorial backlog during my tenure.

Other Writing

THE SHELL ECONOMIST PRIZE (2002)
Winner of Third Place Bronze Award for essay in reponse to question "Should we trade our freedome for our security?"
Read the essay, entitled CHOOSING ILLUSIONS, here.

POETRY
My poetry has been published in the Philippine Graphic (Manila) , I've also self-published a collection of early poems, Of Men and Angels (Honolulu:Transient Fish, 1990) . In the early 1990s I did live readings of my own work at Club Dredd (Metro Manila, Philippines), Our Back Porch evenings at the Coffeeline (Honolulu, Hawaii), and a special appearance at an annual Peace and Justice Week Festival event at Andrews Amphitheater, University of Hawaii at Manoa.