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Third floor Mrak Hall
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616

(530) 752-1930

(Since 2010)

Duties: Manages Dateline UC Davis editor, UC Davis Magazine editors, Web home site and News & Information page editor, and campus photographer; leads UC Davis Communications Council
Other UC Davis posts: Publications director, 1994-2010; senior editor in Publications Office, 1987-94; designer for Repro Graphics, 1977-87
Background: In publications field since 1977 at UC Davis; taught in the UC Davis Extension graphic design program for eight years; four years in the U.S. Navy as a Spanish linguist
Education: B.S. in Design, University of California, Davis; Spanish language certificate, Defense Language Institute, Monterey

(Since 2009)

Duties: Editor and writer for the quarterly alumni magazine, UC Davis Magazine, circulation 228,000
Other UC Davis posts: Communications director for the Division of Biological Sciences, 2000-04; associate editor of the staff and faculty newspaper, Dateline UC Davis, 1997–2000
Background: 17 years as a reporter at newspapers including the Woodburn Independent, Dixon Tribune, Vacaville Reporter and for the last 10 years of that period for the Associated Press in Sacramento
Education: B.A. in History from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore.

(Since 2010)

Duties: Feature writer and copy editor for UC Davis Magazine; project manager for UC Davis rankings; contributor to UC Davis home page and Dateline
Other UC Davis posts: Dateline UC Davis editor 2005-2010; Dateline associate editor 2002–2005; senior writer, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences 2001–2002
Background: Six years in journalism at daily newspapers, including the Sacramento Bee, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Naples Daily News; copywriting consultant for seven years at UC Davis; two years as press secretary for a U.S. congressman from Florida; author of two baseball biographies, Fouled Away (2000) and Big and Little Poison (2002), both nominated for the Harold Seymour Award for the best baseball book of the year
Education: B.A. in Political Science, Pennsylvania State University; M.A. in Journalism, University of Florida

(Since April 2000)

Duties: Web editor for UC Davis home page site, News Service and specialized news and information sites, multimedia projects; campus social media editor
Other UC Davis posts: Has worked on the campus since 1989: Writer and media representative for the social sciences, humanities, arts and cultural studies for seven years as well as campus Web editor; editor of the faculty-staff newspaper Dateline for 11 years
Background: In 1990, helped initiate the annual UC Editors’ Conference and continues to help coordinate the 10-campus group; 15 years experience as a writer and editor at newspapers, including the Vacaville Reporter, Winters Express and Sacramento Union; won a 2005 silver medal from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education District VII for leadership in redesigning the UC Davis home page; 2009 and 2010 Society for New Communication Research Fellow
Education: B.A. in International Relations and M.A. in Rhetoric and Communication, University of California, Davis

(Since October 2005)

Duties: Provides photographic support for Offices of the Chancellor and Provost, University Communications and other University Relations departments, and Undergraduate Admissions; manages University Communications photo database
Background: More than five years experience as a photojournalist for the Selma Enterprise and other newspapers; assistant to the university photographer and journalism lecturer at San Jose State University; website coordinator, 3Com Inc.
Education: B.A. in Art Studio with photography emphasis, University of California, Santa Barbara; M.S. in Mass Communications with photojournalism concentration, San Jose State University