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Enter your professional bio here : Melanie Padgett Powers is the owner of MelEdits, based in the Washington, DC, area. Contact her at melanie@meledits.com.She is a freelance writer, specializing in writing for membership associations, mostly about health care and public health. She is also a magazine managing editor, magazine proofreader and short-form copyeditor. She is the creator and host of the Deliberate Freelancer and Association Station podcasts and available for podcast creation consulting. Melanie has a journalism degree and was a newspaper reporter in her home state of Indiana before moving on to membership associations

Awards and Recognition : Associations, Media & Publishing: multiple Gold Excel Awards for The Physiologist Magazine , of which I have been the managing editor since it launched in 2019. Associations, Media & Publishing: Gold Award for Feature Writing for profile: '' Gene Screen ,'' published in The Physiologist Magazine. https://www.physiology.org/publications/news/the-physiologist-magazine?SSO=Y https://www.physiology.org/publications/news/the-physiologist-magazine/2020/january/gene-screen?SSO=Y

Skills (Select all that apply) : Articles, Blog posts, Conference/meeting coverage, Content marketing, Editing, Feature writing, News, Profiles, Publication management, Q&A

List any memberships you have with other organizations : ACES–The Society for Editing; ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership; Associations, Media & Publishing