Brazilian Foreign Service (since 2005)

Monitors political, security, and business news about Brazil; selects daily top stories, summarizes and edits news content for web publishing.

Researched media outlets and wrote profiles of journalists for strategic communications campaigns.

Assisted Spanish-speaking clients, conducted interviews, prepared referrals, and updated the organization's case management system. Disaster and emergency trainee.

Provided research, proofreading, fact-checking, and publishing assistance to senior editors.

Worked on research and summary projects on Habitat's policy positions. Publishers' training.

Performs commercial research and business analysis for strategic intelligence reports. Collaborates on due diligence and corporate investigations. Consults Factiva/Lexis Nexis.

Cactus Communications (Editage, Cactus Medical) is a leading provider of communication solutions, including academic and scientific editing, medical communications, publication support services, English-language workshops, transcription, and translation. Our company mission is to enable growth through effective communication.CACTUS offers services to two key client segments worldwide: Academia (researchers, scholarly journals and publishers, universities, and academic societies) and Pharmaceutical and Device companies. With offices in the US, Japan, India, South Korea, Singapore and China, CACTUS has processed more than 616,000 documents from 158,000 clients across 164+ countries in the last 14 years.Our full-time in-house staff consists of over 460 people and represents a diverse group of people from India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the US, Germany, and Brazil. We also work with over 900 contractors from around the world. We have 37 BELS-certified writers/editors in-house (BELS: Board of Editors in the Life Sciences), one of the largest groups of certified editors in the world.