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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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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Diane Macgregor
Editorial Consultant
Communications Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia, Canada
902-469-0859
dimacg@ns.sympatico.ca
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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, a Senior Member of the Society for Technical Communication,
and a Past President of the Philadelphia Metro Chapter of the STC.
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Gary B. Larson
Chief of Service Information
King County Metro Transit
Seattle, Washington, United States
206-263-3535
garbl@comcast.net
Gary has worked in communications for more than 33 years as a newspaper
reporter/editor, government publications writer/editor, media relations
specialist, Web site manager and writing/journalism instructor.
Gary's years of deciphering and rewriting bureaucratic jargon
have convinced him that plain language is essential for well-informed,
involved citizens. He also manages a Web site called Garbl's Writing Center. Gary has a bachelor's
degree in journalism and political science and has completed course
work for a master's degree in communications.
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Dr. Neil James
Executive Director
Plain English Foundation
Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
(61-2) 9267-6696
neil.james@plainenglishfoundation.com
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Zuraya Adhikarie
Senior Parliamentary Legal Advisor
Parliament of Republic of South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa
+27 21 403 3665
zadhikarie@parliament.gov.za
Mark Adler
France
adler@adler.demon.co.uk
Mark Adler graduated in philosophy from Warwick University in 1971,
and obtained a teaching certificate the following year.
He taught briefly in a primary school in London before joining
his father’s law practice as an articled clerk in 1972. He
stayed on after he qualified as a solicitor in 1979 and inherited
the practice (doing a wide range of civil work) on his father’s
death in 1980. He soon adopted a “plain language” policy
for the firm and as legalese began to fall out of favour he combined
general practice with plain language consultancy. Since 1991, he
has given seminars in the UK and overseas.
He was for many years chairman of Clarity — the lawyers’
movement for plain legal language — and edited its journal
from 1987 until 2000. He is the author of Clarity for Lawyers (the
Law Society’s book on plain legal English, now in its 2nd
edition) and of many articles.
He retired to southern France in July 2007 but is still doing some
plain language work, drafting plain documents and teaching others
to do so.
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Ginny Redish
President
Redish & Associates Inc.
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
301-229-3039
ginny@redish.net
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