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For 25 years, AIDS has ravaged the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. Since the early 1980s, nearly 30 million people have died from AIDS. But over the past few years, a quiet global revolution has enabled millions of people infected by HIV to live healthy lives.

In Access To Life, eight Magnum photographers document people in nine countries around the world before and four months after they began antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Here are faces, voices, and stories representing those millions of people who by now would be dead if not for access to free antiretroviral drugs. These are people who are living with HIV, working, caring for their children, and experiencing the joys and struggles of being alive. However, there are also the stories of those for whom treatment came too late or where tuberculosis or other diseases brought their lives to an end. These show how the fight to bring access to AIDS treatment is a difficult one, often filled with setbacks as well as successes.

I have been editing, writing, and managing publications since the early 1980s. I've been fortunate enough to work for an incredibly diverse group of companies, from trade associations to worldwide design firms to online magazines. I'm comfortable with a wide variety of styles, work environments, and client needs. Working under pressure and on tight deadlines is second nature to me.

Over the years I have also volunteered my experience and enthusiasm for a number of groups. I currently teach editing at the University of Washington's certificate program in editing, and have served on the board of the Association of Women in Communications Seattle chapter, the communications board for the American Cancer Society, and the alumni board of the UW's School of Communications.

I often speak at groups or classes about editing, and have been the guest speaker for two Copyeditor conferences, including an audio conference on Editing for the Web, and most recently at the Northwest Independent Editors Guild's Beyond the Red Pen conference. In fall 2010 and spring 2011, I will instruct workshops on editing in Adobe Acrobat, and Proofreading.