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