MARTHA
SCHINDLER CONNORS
380 Aspen Place • Evergreen, CO 80439
phone 303-674-0647 • cell 303-249-8488
email martha@martha-connors.com • website www.martha-connors.com
EXPERIENCE
Freelance Writer and Editor: November 1997 - present
• Reporter/writer covering health, nutrition, fitness, weight loss, psychology
and relationships, home
design
and lifestyle for national and regional magazines
• Editor of Boston magazine’s Home & Garden: 2002 – 2003
• Beauty Editor for Cooking Light magazine: 1998 – 2000
• Journalism Instructor at Emerson University, Boston: 2002 – 2003
• Member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors
and
the
Denver
Woman's
Press
Club
Senior Editor for Natural Health magazine (Boston
Common Press, Brookline, Massachusetts): July 1995 -
November 1997
• Planned, assigned and edited articles for national bi-monthly magazine
covering alternative and holistic medicine
• Wrote or edited “Consumer Guide” (comprehensive, double-length)
features, plus all exercise and beauty articles; edited “My Story” department,
which featured first-person accounts of natural medicine successes
• Edited The Natural Health Shopper, a monthly ancillary magazine
Senior Editor for Baby Talk magazine (The Parenting Group/Time,
Inc. Ventures, New York, New York): March 1993 - July 1995
• Planned, assigned and edited articles for national monthly magazine targeting
expectant and new parents
• Wrote and edited stories on women’s health (including fitness and
nutrition), family life, relationships, pre- and post-natal care of mother
and baby, and development of infants and small children
• Managed two special editorial sections, published bi-annually
• Wrote and edited articles for three ancillary publications, published
annually
Associate Editor for The Journal of Property Management, published
by IREM/The National Association of REALTORS, Chicago, Illinois: August 1991
- March 1993
• Planned, assigned and edited articles for national bi-monthly magazine
covering real estate and asset management
• Wrote feature, department and news articles on general business, investment
trends, government regulations and other real estate-related issues
Savings Institutions Assistant Editor for magazine, published by
The U.S. League of Savings Institutions, Chicago, Illinois: October 1988
- June 1990
• Researched and wrote news, feature and “Marketing” department
articles for national monthly magazine covering savings and loans, community
and
savings
banks
Technical Writer/Editor for Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park/North Chicago,
Illinois): October 1987 - October 1988
• Researched and wrote training and procedural documents for manufacturing,
industrial and laboratory systems. Edited manuals, video scripts and multimedia
presentations
• Designed, researched and wrote monthly newsletter
EDUCATION
The Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois:
June 1991
Master of Science in Journalism with Magazine Publishing emphasis
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio: May 1987
Bachelor of Arts English major/Art History minor |
