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About Julie Zander — Continued Education

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Julie has continued her education through life-writing workshops, courses and conferences. She helped organized many of these events through her roles as program chair for the 2006 Association of Personal Historians conference and Northwest regional co-coordinator for the Association of Personal Historians.

Personal Historian Development:

Celebrating Stories: Passage to the Past, Flowing to the Future, Association of Personal Historians 12th annual conference, program chair, October 4-8, 2006, Portland, Ore.
Writing from Childhood and Breathing Life into Memoir Writing, workshop taught by Nan Phifer, August 12, 2006, Portland, Ore.
Digital Storytelling workshop taught by Dan Barrett April 25, 2006, in Chehalis, Wash.
Furnishing your Business with the Tools for Success, Association of Personal Historians 11th annual conference, November 2-6, 2005, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Oregon Christian Writers 16th annual Summer Coaching Conference, August 1-4, 2005, Canby, Ore.
Mile High Confluence: Mining the Past, Minting the Future, Association of Personal Historians Ninth Annual Networking Conference, November 5-9, 2003, Denver, Colo.
Oregon Christian Writers, fall conference and 40th anniversary celebration, October 25, 2003, Portland, Ore. Memories: Remembering What God Has Done and Pressing On in Faith.
Grantsmanship workshop, Twelve Keys to Successful Grantwriting, Washington State University-Vancouver, October 17, 2003, featuring Robert P. Lowman, associate vice chancellor for research and adjunct associate professor of psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, Wash., Introduction to Oral History, October 4, 2003. Lorraine McConaghy, oral historian, presented the workshop offering tips for interviewing, recording and archiving oral histories.
Conference registrar for Bridges: Connecting Cultures, Communities and Generations through Personal History, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, November 6-10, 2002, Association of Personal Historians Eighth Annual Networking Conference.
Helped organize and completed Oral History Interviewing workshop teaching the Epstein technique of recording stories, September 7-8, Portland, Oregon.
Charles T. Morrissey Oral History Workshop, Portland, Ore., September 6-8, 2001, taught by the renowned oral historian. Helped organize workshop and prepared oral history workbook for participants
Organized Northwest Regional Association of Personal Historians workshop on bookbinding, April 21, 2001, in Portland, Ore.
Northwest Voices workshop Writing the Memoir – from Truth to Art and Lifesaving, a Memoir, Longview, Wash., February 15, 2001, with Oregon writer Judith Barrington.
How to Do Oral History workshop, January 27, 2001, in Kelso, Wash., taught by Dr. Laurie Mercier, assistant professor of history at WSU Vancouver, associate director of the Center for Columbia River History and past president of the Oral History Association.
Memoirs for a Millennium, Dallas, Texas, November 3-6, 2000, Association of Personal Historians Sixth Annual Networking Conference
Back to the Future, Chicago, November. 4-7, 1999, Association of Personal Historians Fifth Annual Networking Conference
Collecting Memories workshop, Vashon Island, Wash., November 1999

Newspaper Writing and Editing Development:

American Copy Editors Society’s national conference, Portland, Ore., September 1998
Newspaper Design workshop with Tim Harrower, Portland, Ore., March 1998
Associated Press Wire Handlers conference, Seattle, June 1996
National Writers Workshop, two-day conference, Portland, Ore., April 1994
American Press Institute Effective Writing and Editing week-long conference, San Jose, Calif., December 1992
American Press Institute week-long Reporter's Workshop, Sunnyvale, Calif., August 1988
Investigative Reporters and Editors national conference, Portland, Ore., June 1986
Assertiveness Skills for Managers & Supervisors, Portland, Ore., Summer 1992
Newswriting seminar put on by the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association and The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash., February 1987
News Media and Law Enforcement seminar Oregon Bar-Press-Broadcasters Committee, Portland, Ore., 1985
Libel and Access seminar sponsored by the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association, Seattle, Wash. 1983
“Writing ... It’s All in Your Style” conference put on by Women in Communications Inc., Portland, Ore., 1983

Awards:

First place, C.B. Blethen Memorial Award, 1991 Distinguished enterprise reporting, under 50,000, “Troubled Waters,” a series that examined the increasing demands on the Columbia River
First place, Washington Press Association, 1990 News reporting, daily newspaper less than 30,000, “Portraits of a Disaster,” vignettes describing how Centralia’s 1990 flood affected people
Second place, Society of Professional Journalists, 1990, Government reporting, daily newspapers 16,000 to 50,000 circulation, for a series evaluating the job performances of 10 elected county officials
Third place, Society of Professional Journalists, 1990, Consumer reporting, daily newspapers 16,000 to 50,000 circulation, for a story detailing the euthanization process at the local animal shelter
Third place, Washington Press Association, 1990 Special series, “Report Cards Size Up Elected County Officials,” a series evaluating the job performances of 10 elected county officials
Initiated and helped lead coverage of an award-winning series on the plight of the working poor entitled “Paycheck to Paycheck,” which won first place in the C.B. Blethen Memorial Award for enterprise reporting in 1992
Helped lead coverage and edit stories about a train collision at Kelso, winner of first place in the C.B. Blethen Memorial Award for deadline reporting in 1993
Assisted in leading coverage and editing stories about overcrowding at the county jail and a bond request for a new jail. The series won second place in the C.B. Blethen Memorial Award for comprehensive coverage in 1998
Helped organize, write and edit stories for “Our Town at 75,” an anniversary section for The Daily News, which won first place in special sections from the Washington Press Association in 1998

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For more information about how Julie demonstrates her range of knowledge and talent, read about the process she uses to create a memoir or see some samples of her work. You are welcome to contact her if you have any questions.

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