- Kathy
Hall
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- Education
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- Experience
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- Professional
and community activities
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- Awards and
honors
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- Web
site
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- Home
page
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- Env &
Occ Health style manual
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- Publications
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development
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for writers
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Education
- UNIVERSITY
OF WASHINGTON, Seattle,
Washington
- Master's in
communication,
1985, specializing in environmental health, including
coursework in epidemiology, risk assessment and cancer
causation. Masters project on asbestos-related
diseases.
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- PhD student, entered
autumn 2001, Department
of Communication.
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- UNIVERSITY
OF NEBRASKA,
Lincoln, Nebraska
- B.A. in journalism,
1971. Minors in English, sociology, psychology and
zoology.
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- Experience
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- UNIVERSITY
OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL &
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SCIENCES
- 1999-present
- Senior editor. Senior
interviewer, writer, editor and proofreader for the
principal departmental newsletter, Environmental
Health News.
Write, edit and manage production and distribution of
other projects, including brochures and a
biennial
report. Led
redesign effort for departmental
web site and
coordinate web production and content. Developed and
launched a password-protected Intranet site.
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- KING
COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
- 1993-1999
- Communications
specialist. Wrote and edited brochures, newsletters,
speeches and public information documents following
county's style manual and review process; worked with
graphic designers and printers; developed communication
strategies; prepared information for King County's
internal and external Web sites; facilitated and planned
public
meetings.
Products included newsletter
for transit oriented development,
publications for
the six-year
transit development plan
and stories for the department's employee newsletter,
In
Transportation.
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- SHAPIRO
AND ASSOCIATES, INC.,
Seattle, Wash.
- 1990-1993
- Technical editor.
Developed style manual and quality control process for
environmental consulting firm. Edited internal newsletter
and environmental impact statements for projects
including landfills at Fort Lewis and Adams County;'
Seattle Water Department projects on Tolt River and
Chester Morse Lake; Commencement Bay restoration options;
Blakely Ridge Master Plan Development EIS and Drainage
Master Plan; Kent's and Bellingham's wetlands
inventories; and Kitsap County's Dyes Inlet/Clear Creek
Watershed Master Plan.
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- VALLEY DAILY NEWS
(King
County Journal),
Kent, Wash.
- 1988-1990
- Reporter covering growth
management and land use issues, medical beat, and city
and county government.
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- THE
HERALD, Everett,
Wash.
- 1987-1988
- Copy editing, page
layout.
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- JEAN GILBERTSON AND ASSOCIATES,
Seattle, Wash.
- 1986-1987
- Wrote and edited monthly
and quarterly newsletters and educational materials,
including safety manuals for Crowley Maritime, a tugboat
and environmental cleanup company, and the first edition
of the safe sex workbooks (adult education) for the
Northwest AIDS Foundation.
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- ALBUQUERQUE
JOURNAL,
Albuquerque, NM
- 1985-1986
- Copy editing, page
layout.
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- UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON,
Seattle, Wash.
- 1983-1985
- School of
Communications: graduate teaching assistant, leading
laboratory section of the school's introductory writing
course and teaching grammar and writing skills to college
juniors and seniors.
School of
Medicine: typed and edited technical manuscripts,
including a 600-page book on Werner's
Syndrome, a
genetic disease and the successful grant application for
UW
Alzheimer's Disease Research
Center. The book
was proceedings from an international conference with
about 60 authors from
all over the
world.
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- POST-INTELLIGENCER,
Seattle, Wash.
- 1984-1985
- Copy editing, page
layout.
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- RECORD-EAGLE,
Traverse City, Mich.
- 1978-1983
- Reporter for largest
newspaper in northern Michigan. Covered city and county
governments, wrote about water quality and other
environmental issues, and was the newspaper's medical
reporter for a year. Series on water pollution problems
led to new state regulations on oil industry. Won
statewide news writing awards and a fellowship from the
Council for the Advancement of Science Writing to attend
graduate school.
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- INTERLOCHEN
CENTER FOR THE ARTS,
Interlochen, Mich.
- 1974-1976
- Public affairs assistant
for fine arts boarding school and summer camp. Involved
in student recruitment, community relations, concert
publicity, media relations, and increasing statewide and
nationwide awareness of 50-year-old institution.
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- DAILY
NEWS, Greenville,
Mich.
- 1974-1976
- Reporter for rural daily
newspaper, covering city and county beats.
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- SOUTHSIDE
NEIGHBOR, Atlanta,
Ga.
- 1972-1974
- News editor for suburban
weekly newspaper. Ran satellite office 25 miles from main
office, wrote stories and editorials, supervised two
reporters, edited and laid out the newspaper.
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- Professional
& community activities
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- SOCIETY
FOR TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION
- Member, Puget Sound
chapter. Online manager for Environmental Safety and
Health special interest group (SIG), maintaining
web
site and
moderating listserv.
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- TOASTMASTERS
INTERNATIONAL
- Past president, Freely
Speaking Toastmasters. Past area governor. Advanced
Toastmaster-Gold and Competent Leader
certification.
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- INTERNATIONAL
ASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
- Vice president, Puget
Sound chapter.
Member, International Communication Association, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Public Health Association.
Awards
& honors
- "BEST OF SHOW" TECHNICAL
COMMUNICATION AWARD, 2003
- "Best of Show,"
International
Technical Publications
Competition,
Society for Technical Communication for 2001-2003
Biennial Report,
Department of Environmental Health.
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- STAFF OUTREACH AWARD,
2000/2001
- Department of
Environmental Health award and $1,000
stipend.
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- INNOVATIONS IN AMERICAN
GOVERNMENT COMPETITION, 2000
- Served on communications
team for the Metro
Transit Commute
Partnerships
program that won a Ford Foundation and Harvard University
competition.
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- STAFF SERVICE AWARD,
1999-2000 and 2002-2003
- Nominated for the School
of Public Health and Community Medicine staff service
award,
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