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Emily Hiestand |
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Nationally recognized as one of America's fine non-fiction writers, Emily Hiestand is also an award-winning communications consultant. Experienced as a strategic communications planner, writer/editor, and art director, Emily helps organizations create success through excellent and meaningful communications. |
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Recent Projects Emily had a leading role in the publication of The Good City, a new book about Boston, sponsored by The Boston Foundation, and presented as a gift from the City of Boston to all 35,000 delegates to the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Her services for the book included introducing the publishing partners, providing developmental editing (identifying the book's themes, selecting and inviting noted writers), and shaping the final manuscript. Enthusiastically received by reviewers and readers, The Good City has also found a home in college classrooms. Strategic Communications Consulting With expertise in marketing communications, art direction, and writing, Emily brings layers of skills to strategic communications planning. Some recent projects include creating a multi-year strategic communications plan and brand-evolution for Prellwitz Chilinski Architects and THEREdesign::Architecture and Interior Design; analysis and strategic communications evaluation for The Food Project; helping The Philanthropic Initiative establish TPI Editions; and advising MIT's Alliance for Global Sustainability. Writing and Editing For a decade, Emily served as a principal editor for Orion Magazine, for which she wrote regular introductory essays and commentaries, cultivated authors and ideas, and edited feature manuscripts, working creatively with some of America's finest writers. Other representative projects include: manuscript editing for Just Money, a book from The Philanthropic Initiative, which captures the wisdom of a generation of philanthropic leaders; publications for The Boston Foundation on issues vital to Greater Boston, including: working closely with thinkers and policy makers to shape the manuscripts for The Boston Paradox:Lots of Health Care, Not Enough Health; Geography and Giving:The Culture of Philanthropy in New England (from The Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College), and The Elder Standard (from The Gerontology Center at UMass Boston). |
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Gifted at evoking creativity from individuals and teams, Emily was for many years the principal of Hiestand Design Associates, an award-winning firm whose projects included capital campaign materials for Massachusetts General Hospital, the identity program for Museum Wharf and The Childrens' Museum; materials for the Massachusetts Equal Rights Amendment campaign, and Place Over Time, a major exhibit about Boston architecture funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
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Emily was given a Brownie camera on her eighth birthday and has been making photographs ever since. These days her photographs are exhibited and collected, and make themselves useful in homes, offices, publications, and civic spaces. Her photographs are represented by the Left Bank Gallery, in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Emily is the author of three books: The Very Rich Hours (travels, Beacon Press); Angela The Upside Down Girl (true stories, Beacon Press), and Green the Witch Hazel Wood (poems, Graywolf Press). Widely anthologized, Emily's writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Nation, The Boston Globe Magazine, Bostonia, and Salon, as well as many literary journals, among them Agni and The Georgia Review. Her honors for visual and literary works include The Whiting Award, The Pushcart Prize, numerous awards from the Boston Art Directors Club, the CASE Medal for Educational Design, Discovery/The Nation, the National Poetry Series Award, and The National Magazine Award. For more info about Emily's writing and photography, visit Words+Images. |
