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What I do  

Reporter, freelance:
• Food politics (current focus): Published in the Washington Post, Mother Jones, Sierra, the San Francisco Chronicle, Gastronomica, Meatpaper, the Financial Times, Wired, Culinate, Culture, Edible San Francisco.
• Business and technology: Published in the the Transcript, Corporate Board Member (contributing writer), Condé Nast Traveler, Photo District News, Conde Nast Portfolio, New York Times, Business Life (British Air), Red Herring, Edutopia, and Forefront magazine.

Editor, freelance:
• Deputy editor for Edible San Francisco (ongoing)
• Contract editor for Fourth Sector Consulting
• Story editor for Wired for special issues<

Blogger:
• Cofounder, editor, and writer for the food-politics blog The Ethicurean, which has 10+ contributors, a Technorati Blog Authority rating in the high 300s, 2,000 fans on Facebook, and roughly 25,000 unique readers per month.

What I used to do  

• Web reporter, UC Berkeley NewsCenter, June 2002-March 2007.
• Editor and writer, Engineering News, UC Berkeley College of Engineering, Dec. 2001-June 2002.
• Senior writer, Red Herring, Sept. 1999-Sept. 2000. (I joined the Herring in March 1997 and held various editing titles before switching to reporting.)
• Various positions in publishing.

Speaking and radio  

• Guest on food politics panel for 826 Valencia, with Michael Pollan and Harold McGee, Feb. 2009
• Guest on pilot episode of "I'd Eat That," new food-centric radio show for San Francisco (listen to mp3)
• Speaker on "Media R Us" panel of food and farming writers, editors and journalists at Eco-Farm 2009
• Moderated panel on "Climate-Friendly Eating" for CUESA, March 2008 (listen to mp3)
Interviewed Michael Pollan for Slow Food Solano event in Vacaville, CA, Feb. 2008

Education  

• College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (BA, English)
• University of East Anglia, Norwich, England (MA, Creative Writing)
• UC Extension (Developing the Novel)

How do you pronounce "Azab"?   AY-zaab. It's my mother's maiden name, truncated from the original by my Armenian great-grandfather.