I started out in the legal field as a paralegal at the U.S. Attorney's Office, in Boston, Mass. After nearly two years there, I began to crave a different medium for my writing and research skills. I left there to work at Houghton Mifflin to write for and edit social studies text books and then on to the Harvard School of Public Health to write for, edit and otherwise support publication of the Harvard Public Health Review. I returned to school in the fall of 2007 for a master's in journalism, and have been in the field since. I freelance for the Boston Globe, edit for YPNation, work part-time in PR and marketing for Polaris Health Directions (creating marketing materials, writing press releases, editing grant proposals) and part-time for Watchdog New England, the Initiative for Investigative Reporting at Northeastern University, as an editor and reporter. When I'm not chained to my computer, I'm working on a schooner, in Salem, Mass., and recently earned my 50 ton inland captain's license.