Lourdes Venard M.A.
Education editor at the News Literacy Project, an education nonprofit, and previously a copyeditor at multiple newspapers.
Bio
Lourdes Venard has more than 40 years of writing, editing, design, and project management experience. She currently works as the education editor for the News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan education nonprofit. Before that, she worked as a copyeditor, and copy desk supervisor at major newspapers, including The Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Newsday, and also as a freelance fiction editor. She served on the advisory committee for the 18th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Venard holds a master’s in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a bachelor’s in communications from the University of Miami. Along with Christine Steele, she is a lead instructor for the Copyediting Certificate Program. Lourdes and Christine are the authors of The Collaborative Editor: How to Build Trust with Writers Through Queries and Other Communications.
You can reach her at LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/lourdes/.