I work from my office in East Lansing, Michigan (Eastern Time, e.g. New York).

You can contact me via email, or Signal using my cell phone +1 (510) 393-5525. Encrypted teleconferencing via Zoom and Signal is also available.

I also maintain profiles on LinkedIn, ProZ, and TranslatorsCafe.

ABOUT ME

While my primary role is as the director of Eurasian Wildlife and Peoples, I also freelance in Russian-English translation, and philanthropic and non-profit consulting. At Eurasian Wildlife and Peoples, I am responsible for all grant-writing and administration, donor development, program planning and implementation, operations, and Russian-English communications with an extensive network of professional collaborators. I read, write, and interact in Russian on a daily basis.

I graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Russian Language and a minor in Linguistics from Bryn Mawr College. I lived and studied in Moscow, Russia at the Moscow Energy Institute and later lived and worked in Kiev, Ukraine. I have traveled internationally extensively and throughout Russia especially in Siberia and the Far East and more recently, Central Asia. I lived in Germany for two years as a young girl and learned to speak German fluently at that time. In the mid-90s, I worked as a bilingual vocational counselor for refugees from the former Soviet Union and Bosnia-Herzegovina. I have low-level conversational skills in German and Serbo-Croatian, but they are not currently working languages .