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    Meera Subramanian

    Education

    • MA in Journalism, Cultural Reporting and Criticism concentration
    New York University. Degree expected December 2005
    • BA in Anthropology with a Spanish minor (conversationally fluent)
    University of Washington, graduated August 1992 magna cum laude, 3.8 GPA

    Editorial/Writing Experience

    • Currently a freelance journalist published in The New York Times, City Limits, Choice! Magazine (on-line), The Revealer (on-line), The New York Resident and Our Town. Upcoming: Audubon Magazine and In The Fray (on-line).

    • Currently a freelance fact checker for Discover Magazine and GQ and a development manager for the World Ocean Observatory

    • May 2006: Blue Mountains Institute Fellowship through Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources: ten-day expedition through eastern Oregon and Washington and Idaho educating journalists on natural resource issues affecting the region

    • October, 2004 - May, 2005: Internship with Planned Parenthood Federation of America
    New York, New York
    Writer for online Choice! Magazine, focus on Global Dispatches

    • 2002 - 2004: Cascadia Wildlands Project (non-profit forest conservation organization)
    Eugene, Oregon
    Executive administrator, bookkeeper, event planner and conservation associate, writer and proofreader for newsletter, Cascadia Quarterly

    • 1996 - 2002: Aprovecho Research Center (non-profit research and education center)
    Cottage Grove, Oregon
    Executive administrator, grant writer, bookkeeper, editor and writer for quarterly newsletter, News from Aprovecho, Board of Directors (President 2002-2004)

    • 2001 - 2004: Co-editor and writer for self-published zine, Rrrrl Girlz, Eugene, Oregon

    • Member: Society of Environmental Journalists and South Asian Journalists Association

    Other Experience

    • 2002 - 2004: Tsunami Sushi (independently-owned organic sushi roll business)
    Cottage Grove, Oregon
    Working owner/partner

    • 1997 - 2004: Agricultural & Community Trust (non-profit land trust organization)
    Cottage Grove, Oregon
    Board of Directors, President

    • 1995 - 1996: Tacoma School District, Tacoma, Washington
    Substitute teacher: elementary and middle schools

    • 1993 - 1995: Independent Employment Services, Seattle, Washington
    Job placement and training for adults with developmental disabilities

    Travel Experience

    • India (8 trips), Thailand, Mexico, Costa Rica, Grenada, Haiti, BVI, Canada, Nigeria, Italy, and 1989 Semester at Sea program (Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, Egypt, USSR, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Morocco)