KRISTEN WEBER
Boston
Summary
Experienced with developing impactful content that resonates with diverse audiences. Utilizes advanced research skills to ensure accuracy and relevance in all writing projects. Knowledge of various writing styles and formats, ensuring versatility and excellence in content delivery. Skilled at a variety of editorial tasks.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Writer/Editor
Freelance
09.2017 - Current
- Worked with a variety of clients to provide editorial (copyediting, proofreading, developmental editing, line editing) services on a range of projects from business books to podcast scripts to personal memoirs to academic publications.
- Provided indexing services for academic publications.
- Created book proposals for clients.
- Consulted on narrative, structure, marketability of client projects.
Ghostwriter / Senior Editor / Content Producer
Kevin Anderson & Associates
04.2014 - Current
- Responsible for interacting with a diverse set of clients in need of a wide-range of editorial and writing skills and producing high-quality, impeccably written material ready for publication
- Primary ghostwriter on 20+ full-length books on topics including marketing, child rearing, religious studies, memoir, and academic studies
- Extensive copy editing and proofreading for numerous doctoral dissertations, fiction manuscripts, academic papers, and website and marketing content
- Extensive research and writing with minimal client supervision on book projects
- Frequent travel/meeting with clients as a representative of the company and to determine scope of projects
Communications Lead
Code for America Brigade: Boston
01.2014 - 06.2017
- Responsible for social media engagement, chapter outreach, press liaison, blogging, and communications updates for a volunteer civic technology group.
Faculty Assistant
Harvard Business School
10.2007 - 04.2015
- Responsible for assisting a total of 8 professors in the Technology and Operations Management unit with all aspects of their teaching responsibilities, coursework organization, publications, and research
- Provided editorial, copywriting, research, and database expertise to professors with cases, promotion review packets, and scholarly articles
- Adept at using many academic databases including but not limited to ABI/Proquest, JSTOR, Factiva, Hoover's, and OneSource
- Coordinated calendar scheduling, travel arrangements, expense reporting, course planning, student fairs and presentations, exam scheduling, case writing, and distributions coordination
Research Lead | Project Manager
Code for America Brigade: Boston
03.2013 - 01.2014
- Pantry Pickup is a web application aimed at facilitating individual donations to local food pantries
- Responsibilities include setting project vision, developing and executing qualitative research plan, and coordinating with City of Boston and Greater Boston Food Bank personnel
- V1 released Nov '13
Contributing Writer
NESN.com
04.2009 - 06.2010
- Weekly columnist for New England Sports Network's website, providing sports commentary and opinion for a crossover audience
Baseball Editor, Writer
InSite Magazine
08.2006 - 06.2010
- Author of monthly sports column for a free Boston magazine with a circulation of approximately 100,000
- Responsible for content development, overseeing other writers and editing content for publication
Owner and author
basegirl.blogspot.com
11.2004 - 05.2010
- Owner and author of popular Boston sports blog providing commentary, insight, and humor on the Boston sports scene and professional sports in general
- Approx
- 10,000 hits/month
Executive Assistant to Chief Marketing Officer
Tele Atlas
04.2007 - 09.2007
- Responsibilities included providing assistance for the Chief Marketing Officer and the Vice President of Global Marketing Communications and communications team including:
- Coordinating travel and heavy calendar scheduling for CMO and Global Communications team as well as maintenance of finance and budget centers for department including expense reporting
- Contributing writer and editor for marketing collateral, company newsletter, internal and external communications and articles on company intranet
Production Editor
Bedford/St. Martin's Publishers
06.2002 - 04.2007
- Began as a Production Intern, was promoted to Production Assistant, then to Production Editor
- Assumed Production Editor duties for book projects, both ancillaries and student editions, including supervision of books through all phases of production
- Responsible for securing and supervising freelancers, including copyediting, proofreading, length estimating and book design and coordinating with Developmental Editors, Cover and Art Department, authors, and Production Supervisors in New York office
- Served as reprint coordinator for the Boston office and assisted in the hiring of Production Assistants and Interns
Freelance Writer, Film Critic
Foster's Daily Democrat: Showcase Magazine
01.1999 - 01.2003
- Contributing writer for local newspaper with a circulation of 30,000+
- Responsible for contributing insightful and entertaining film reviews and feature pieces
Education
Master's of Liberal Arts - Interdisciplinary Studies, Culinary Anthropology
Boston University
Boston, MA05.2012
Bachelor of Arts - Writing, Literature & Publishing, Film Studies
Emerson College
Boston, MA05.2002
Skills
- Creative writing
- Developmental Editing
- Line Editing
- Copyediting
- Proofreading
- Grammar usage
- Research
- Interviewing skills
- Script writing
- Indexing
- Manuscript Critical Review & Analysis
Publications
Author, My Seder Plate: A Passover Book, HarperCollins, 2025
- Wrote and published a seder-plate shaped children's book.
Scripted limited series podcast with Gently Ventures, 2024
- Served as head writer and researcher for a limited series podcast (8 episodes) about Joan Payson, the first owner of the New York Mets, and the first woman to buy a baseball team. In prd-production.
Developmental Editor, Guiding the Tide: The Call for Agency in 21st Century Business Leaders by Frank Guglielmo, Jonathan Donner, Sudhanshu Palsule, Routledge, 2024
- Served as Developmental Editor on this publication.
- Synthesized three distinct authorial voices into a cohesive narrative
Line Editor, In Through the Side Door: Fifty Years of Women in Interaction Design by Erin Malone, MIT Press, 2024
- Served as line editor for a compendium of women pioneers in the field of interaction design.
Additional Writing Experience
- Contributing Writer, NESN.com, Watertown, MA, 04/09, 06/10
Weekly columnist for New England Sports Network's website, providing sports commentary and opinion for a crossover audience.
- Baseball Editor, Writer, InSite Magazine, Boston, MA, 08/06 - 06/10
Author of monthly sports column for a free Boston magazine with a circulation of approximately 100,000. Responsible for content development, overseeing other writers and editing content for publication.
- Owner and Author, basegirl.blogspot.com, Boston, MA, 11/04 - 05/10
Owner and author of popular Boston sports blog providing commentary, insight, and humor on the Boston sports scene and professional sports in general. Approx. 10,000 hits/month.
- Freelance Writer, Film Critic, Foster's Daily Democrat: Showcase Magazine, Dover, NH, 01/99 - 12/03
Contributing writer for local newspaper with a circulation of 30,000+. Responsible for contributing insightful and entertaining film reviews and feature pieces.
Timeline
Writer/Editor
Freelance
09.2017 - Current
Ghostwriter / Senior Editor / Content Producer
Kevin Anderson & Associates
04.2014 - Current
Communications Lead
Code for America Brigade: Boston
01.2014 - 06.2017
Research Lead | Project Manager
Code for America Brigade: Boston
03.2013 - 01.2014
Contributing Writer
NESN.com
04.2009 - 06.2010
Faculty Assistant
Harvard Business School
10.2007 - 04.2015
Executive Assistant to Chief Marketing Officer
Tele Atlas
04.2007 - 09.2007
Baseball Editor, Writer
InSite Magazine
08.2006 - 06.2010
Owner and author
basegirl.blogspot.com
11.2004 - 05.2010
Production Editor
Bedford/St. Martin's Publishers
06.2002 - 04.2007
Freelance Writer, Film Critic
Foster's Daily Democrat: Showcase Magazine
01.1999 - 01.2003
Master's of Liberal Arts - Interdisciplinary Studies, Culinary Anthropology
Boston University
Bachelor of Arts - Writing, Literature & Publishing, Film Studies
Emerson College
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