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• Jennifer Della’ Zanna has received the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity’s Educator of the Year award. • Wendy Meyeroff was a guest on On the Record (https://www.wypr. org/show/on-the-record#stream/0), a morning radio program from Maryland NPR station WYPR, discussing hurdles of applying for unemployment benefits and what an early end to benefits would mean: https://www.wypr.org/
International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) was featured in an IABC newsletter. • Christine Van Zandt’s funny nonfiction children’s picture book, A Brief History of Underpants, was published in June by becker&mayer! kids, a Quarto Kids imprint. • Michele Wojciechowski interviewed actor Lou Diamond Phillips for Esquire recently: https://www.esquire.
• Heather Pendley was “privileged to be featured in the American Society for Indexing July newsletter”: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/
“When you work as a writer for decades, you get used to it,” she said. “The assignments are still fun, but the bylines, well, you don’t get thrilled about them as you once did. Except in situations like this.” n
show/on-the-record/2021-07-07/gigfreelance-unemployed-oh-my.
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com/entertainment/a36676635/lou-diamond-phillips-interview-playing-filipinoamerican-characters/.
• Lyn Sorresso has published a first essay about being nonbinary, specifically about growing out facial hair as a transmasculine person: https://
www.functionofbeauty.com/blog/definitionofbeauty/growing-my-mustache-is-away-to-find-out-what-i-actually-want/.
“I’m excited about it! and ... it might be useful to read this perspective for sensitivity purposes in [colleagues’] work,” she said. She is open to answering questions; contact her at alyssasorresso.com. • Ruth E. Thaler-Carter received a Terry Harper Memorial Scholarship to attend the 2021 national convention of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) in the fall. She will present a session about freelancing and help staff the SPJ Freelance Community’s Freelancers Corner during the conference, which has been moved from in-person to online. Thaler-Carter has been asked to present a webinar about diversity for the American Society for Indexing (ASI), which is expected to occur early in the new year. Her leadership in reviving the St. Louis chapter of the
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