Pittershawn is a freelance
writer, journalist, speechwriter, copywriter and copyeditor who
has worked with Oprah Magazine, Essence, Black Enterprise, Black
Voices, Fierce, The Source, Kuji and New Vision in Business magazine,
as well as the Chicago Defender, QBR The Black Book Review and
the Harlem Book Fair, in positions ranging from freelance writer
and fact-checker to researcher, editor, copyeditor and associate
publisher. She made her mark in journalism by conducting flawless
research and masterful interviews. Since then she has published
dozens of articles covering business, literary and general topics.
Pittershawn has done extensive copywriting
and copyediting for corporate clients, covering marketing campaign
collateral, press releases, and speechwriting for awards and publicity
events. She has also copyedited for academic clients, covering course
instruction and seminars, lectures, interviews, articles, performances
and exhibits. Her client list includes L'Oreal's Soft Sheen
Carson and Fathom, which covered such institutions as The British Library,
American Film Institute, The British Museum, Cambridge University Press,
Columbia University, London School of Economics, RAND, Natural History
Museum, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, Victoria & Albert
Museum, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Science Museum and New
York Public Library and many others. She has prepared effective grant
proposals and business letters and has served as ghostwriter for the
Director of the National Brotherhood of Skiers.
She taught journalism and writing on the weekends
to freshman high school students at Hostos Community College through a
program run by Young Athletes, Inc. (Y.A.I.)/GEAR UP.
She is a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority,
Inc - Gamma Xi Zeta Chapter as treasurer, co-chair of Iona College's Multicultural
Alumni Chapter and president and CEO of Iambia Media and Iambia Publishing.
Pittershawn earned her B.A. in English from
Iona College where she graduated with honors, and was inducted into Sigma
Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society. She is currently pursuing
her Masters in Journalism at the same institution and will soon begin studies
towards an M.F.A. in Writing.
Website: http://www.pittershawnpalmer.com