Dr. Neil James
Executive Director
Plain English Foundation
P.O. Box Q194, Queen Victoria Building
Sydney 1230, NSW Australia
Phone – (61-2) 9290-1288
Neil.James@plainenglishfoundation.com
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Ruth Baldwin, M.A.
Plain Writing Services
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
613-726-0553
ruthbaldwin@gmail.com
Ruth Baldwin has more than 20 years’ experiences as a writer,
editor, trainer and promoter of clear language. Her company, Plain
Writing Services, provides training, writing and editing services
to government, NGOs, unions and the private sector.
Ruth is the author of the best-selling publication, Clear Language
and Literacy, published by the Ontario Literacy Coalition in
1990, and the revised version published in 2000. She is also the
co-author (with Sally McBeth) of The Clarity Kit: Effective
Communications for Municipalities, a joint project of the Canadian
Association of Municipal Administrators and the Canadian Union of
Public Employees. Her writing/editing projects have covered a wide
variety of topics including health and safety, environmental assessment,
local government issues, and international development.
Ruth is a member of the Plain Language Association InterNational
(PLAIN) and has served as Treasurer since 2006. She is also a member
of the Editors’ Association of Canada.
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Nad Rosenberg
President, TechWRITE, Inc.
Woodbury, New Jersey, USA
856-848-6593
twnad@techw.com
Nad Rosenberg is president and founder of TechWRITE, Inc., a company
that creates high-quality, plain-language manuals and e-learning
tutorials for a wide range of clients. Since TechWrite was started
in 1985, its primary goal has been to make complicated technical
information easy to understand. Plain language has always been the
key to implementing this core value.
Before starting TechWRITE, Nad managed documentation departments
for several large corporations. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon
University, an Associate Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication,
and a Past President of the Philadelphia Metro Chapter of the STC.
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Miriam E. Vincent
Webwright
www.plainlanguage.gov (Social
Security Administration)
plwebwright@gmail.com
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Liaison with Clarity
Julie Clement
Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Associate Professor and Clarity, Editor-in-Chief
300 S. Capitol Ave, PO Box 13038
Lansing, MI 48901 U.S.A.
Phone – 517-371-5140 ext 2605
clementj@cooley.edu
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Sandra Fisher-Martins
Plain language consultant
Português Claro
Rua da Madalena 80 2º
1100-322 Lisboa Portugal
Phone - +351 936010179
sandra.martins@portuguesclaro.pt
www.portuguesclaro.pt
Sandra Fisher-Martins runs Português Claro, a training and
consultancy firm that introduced plain language in Portugal and
has been helping Portuguese companies and government agencies communicate
clearly since 2007.
Sandra is particularly interested in the use of plain language
and information design in public documents as a way of helping citizens
make informed choices about their health, education, welfare, and
civil rights. Her clients include the Government, Inland Revenue,
Social Security, Caixa (Portugal’s largest bank) and ZON (telecommunications).
Sandra is the Portuguese representative for Clarity, an international
association that promotes plain legal language. She is member of
the board of PLAIN – Plain Language Association International
– and a member of
IC Clear.
Sandra gave a TEDx talk in Porto in 2011 about 'The right to understand'.
It was chosen as 'Editor's Pick' in October 2011 and put on the
TED homepage. It currently has over 270 000 views.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/sandra-fisher-martins-the-right-to-understand.html
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Nominating Committee Chair
Ron Wohl
R.H. Wohl & Associates
InPlainEnglish
North Potomac, Maryland, USA
301-340-2821
RWohl@InPlainEnglish.com
Ron Wohl is a Certified Management Consultant and corporate Anthropologist
who studies the communication of factual information in large organizations
and introduces plain English to make the communication of management
information effective and efficient. He supplies highly experienced
plain English writers and graphic artist to these organizations
and to the large consulting firms who advise them. Ron has over
40 years experience in management and communication, including 30
years as founder and president of In Plain English(R) a national
consulting firm. Ron has been the president or director of several
national and local professional and civic associations, as well
as Chair of the Montgomery County, Maryland Commission on the Humanities,
a national speaker on plain English applications, home-based business
issues, and politics. Ron ran for the Maryland legislature in 1986,
lost, but got a life. He has also written columns for two newspapers.
He has co-authored the textbook on employee benefit communications
and is currently working on a book on the future of the corporation
where 4 & 5 generations are at work at the same time.
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Robert Linsky
NEPS, LLC
Director of Information Design
12 Manor Parkway
Salem, NH 03079 U.S.A.
Phone - 603-314-5665
linskyrobert@hotmail.com
Robert Linsky, Information Design Doc, is the Director of Information
Design at NEPS, LLC, a leading communications management consulting
firm orchestrating information for relevant, personalized delivery.
His expertise is in information design and document processes and
he has been creating solutions for a wide range of nationally and
internationally recognized financial, insurance, healthcare and
telecommunications companies.
He has taught design and served as the chair of the design department
at the New England School of Art & Design. Mr. Linsky served
on the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts College of Art &
Design for twelve years including two terms as its Chair.
As the executive director of ISGD (International Society of Graphic
Designers, Ltd.), Robert led designers on Design Dialogues to Russia,
China and Eastern Europe.
He is a life fellow of the Communications Research Institute and
is on the editorial board of the Information Design Journal. Robert
is a member of the International Institute for Information Design
(IIID) and the Information Design Association. For the second year,
he is serving as Director of Judging for the ClearMark Awards sponsored
by the Center for Plain Language.
Robert also writes a blog about information design (http://informationdesigndoc.blogspot.com).
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Dominique Joseph
Government of Canada
70, rue Crémazie
Gatineau. QC K1A 0S5 Canada
Phone – 613-852-4401
dojoseph@sympatico.ca
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Darlene Shura
Principal
Renaissance Communications Ltd
321 Tree Tops Lane
Toronto, ON L4G 0L5 Canada
Phone – 905-727-7737
dshura@rencomltd.com
