Bristol-based copy-editor, proofreader, and screenwriter with over a decade of experience editing for international academic institutions, research organisations, and intergovernmental bodies through her consultancy EnglishProofing.de. She holds a Certificate in Copy-editing, Editing and Proofreading from the CIEP and has edited upwards of 30 million words across policy research, donor reports, and institutional communications — including a retainer with UN Women Kyiv. She has also worked as an editor at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community in Fiji and the Overseas Development Institute in London. Alongside her editorial work, she has written three feature screenplays: Copper Bullets, which follows Kalusha Bwalya's rebuilding of the Zambian national football team after the 1993 plane crash that killed the entire squad; Trauma, a single-day portrait of a person navigating life while attending hospital; and The Dinner, which sits in the tension between forgiveness and grief. She works across British and international English and is comfortable with everything from academic prose to high-stakes institutional documentation.…

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Bristol-based copy-editor, proofreader, and screenwriter with over a decade of experience editing for international academic institutions, research organisations, and intergovernmental bodies through her consultancy EnglishProofing.de. She holds a Certificate in Copy-editing, Editing and Proofreading from the CIEP and has edited upwards of 30 million words across policy research, donor reports, and institutional communications — including a retainer with UN Women Kyiv. She has also worked as an editor at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community in Fiji and the Overseas Development Institute in London. Alongside her editorial work, she has written three feature screenplays: Copper Bullets, which follows Kalusha Bwalya's rebuilding of the Zambian national football team after the 1993 plane crash that killed the entire squad; Trauma, a single-day portrait of a person navigating life while attending hospital; and The Dinner, which sits in the tension between forgiveness and grief. She works across British and international English and is comfortable with everything from academic prose to high-stakes institutional documentation.…

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Bristol-based copy-editor, proofreader, and screenwriter with over a decade of experience editing for international academic institutions, research organisations, and intergovernmental bodies through her consultancy EnglishProofing.de. She holds a Certificate in Copy-editing, Editing and Proofreading from the CIEP and has edited upwards of 30 million words across policy research, donor reports, and institutional communications — including a retainer with UN Women Kyiv. She has also worked as an editor at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community in Fiji and the Overseas Development Institute in London. Alongside her editorial work, she has written three feature screenplays: Copper Bullets, which follows Kalusha Bwalya’s rebuilding of the Zambian national football team after the 1993 plane crash that killed the entire squad; Trauma, a single-day portrait of a person navigating life while attending hospital; and The Dinner, which sits in the tension between forgiveness and grief. She works across British and international English and is comfortable with everything from academic prose to high-stakes institutional documentation.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Editor at EnglishProofing.de
October 1, 2009 - Present
Bristol-based copy-editor, proofreader, and screenwriter with over a decade of experience editing for international academic institutions, research organisations, and intergovernmental bodies through her consultancy EnglishProofing.de. She holds a Certificate in Copy-editing, Editing and Proofreading from the CIEP and has edited upwards of 30 million words across policy research, donor reports, and institutional communications — including a retainer with UN Women Kyiv. She has also worked as an editor at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community in Fiji and the Overseas Development Institute in London. Alongside her editorial work, she has written three feature screenplays: Copper Bullets, which follows Kalusha Bwalya's rebuilding of the Zambian national football team after the 1993 plane crash that killed the entire squad; Trauma, a single-day portrait of a person navigating life while attending hospital; and The Dinner, which sits in the tension between forgiveness and grief. She works across British and international English and is comfortable with everything from academic prose to high-stakes institutional documentation.

Education

MSc Media, Communication and Development at London School of Economics
September 1, 2016 - September 1, 2017

Qualifications

Copy-editing, Editing and Proofreading
September 1, 2015 - November 1, 2015

Industry Experience

Government, Healthcare, Non-Profit Organization, Education
    paper Copper Bullets Screenplay

    Opening page of my screenplay with a rating of 7/10 on https://www.twine.net/signin

    FADE IN:
    1 INT. AIRFORCE PLANE, AIRPORT. LIBREVILLE, GABON. NIGHT. 1993 1
    SUPERIMPOSE: Libreville, Gabon. Tuesday, 27th April 1993.
    A STEWARD walks from the back of a De Havilland Canada
    DHC-5D Buffalo plane toward the cockpit door. He wears a
    smart, impeccable Zambian Army corporal uniform.
    He passes 25 lively, talkative passengers, all part of the
    Football Association of Zambia, and many empty seats.
    The passengers include the young players DAVID CHABALA and
    KELVIN MUTALE (both early 20s), the journalist JOSEPH SALIM,
    coaches, assistants, and civil servants. Some sleep, some
    talk, some read.
    The steward passes two passengers in the front two seats:
    GODFREY CHITALU (coach, mid 60s) in the window and ALEX
    CHOLA (assistant coach, late 50s) in the aisle.