Carol Stevens

• Teach creative writing, memoir writing, non-fiction and editorial writing to adult learners with the Arlington County Public Schools one evening a week.
• Classes consistently fill to capacity
• Receive top student ratings

• As the ABA’s top communications professional, oversaw all facets of media relations for the American Bar Association, a non-profit association with some 160,000 members
• Duties included planning and creating news content for the ABA website, and the weekly e-newsletter that goes to 180,000 ABA members, assigning and editing stories, web posts, video, photography.
• Managed a busy 14-person communications team that produced web stories, videos, newsletters, speeches, talking points, press releases, op-eds and social media
• Handled personnel and budgeting for the division
• Served as part of a management team that decided the strategic direction of the organization.

• Responsible for overseeing a 100-plus person newsroom at USA Today and usatoday.com, which included the nation desk, world desk, Washington bureau and breaking-news team
• Worked with a team of editors, to produce daily and long-term content, make story assignments and decide content placement
• Oversaw planning and coverage for breaking news events ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the Virginia Tech mass shooting, political conventions and election coverage
• Handled budgeting and personnel matters for the department
• Coordinated production of special news sections and coverage of special events and breaking news
• Represented USA Today through public speaking, Pulitzer-prize judging
• Involved in strategic planning for the USA Today brand.

• As Editorial Page Editor at the nation's largest-circulation newspaper, worked with a 15-member division to craft USA Today's editorial stance
• Oversaw planning and daily production of the editorial page and the op-ed pages
• Directed decisions setting USA Today’s editorial positions on topics, assigned editorials, edited editorials and op-ed pieces and handled all budgeting and personnel matters
• Wrote and edited editorials.

• Contributed original articles on a regular basis, showcasing expertise in health care
• Wrote the annual Top Doctors edition
• Named a runner-up in National Magazine Awards for an article: "Why Women Get Bad Medical Care"

• Served as deputy to the Editor of the Editorial Page where I wrote, edited and assigned editorials.

• Served as second in command at editorial page of The Baltimore Sun where I wrote, edited and assigned editorials.

• Wrote editorials, specializing in topics including health care, education and politics.

• Wrote national stories on health policy, welfare and education reform and presidential politics
• Won several awards for my coverage of health care disparities
• Covered presidential campaigns and variety of national issues
• Was honored to receive a Kaiser mini-grant that funded a prize-winning investigation into why women and minorities can receive inferior health care.

• Covered health policy for this business magazine for doctors.

Worked as a national reporter covering the environment and the general assignment beat.