erica rowell

ERICA ROWELL is a published author who has worked as an online editor and broadcast producer and reporter.

She is currently the online managing editor for Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. In addition to coordinating the school's social networking and other Web 2.0 efforts, she produces video profiles of alumni on the cutting edge of harmonizing society and the environment. She also edits www.thegreengrok.com, Dean Bill Chameides's blog on environmental science and sustainability.

Before Duke Rowell worked for five years as a writer/producer/editor for the Environmental Defense Fund. There she covered business partnerships, ecosystems, and climate change. As part of the organization's focus on global warming education, she created a guide to energy-saving lights called "unparalleled" by he Philadelphia Enquirer and "the best CFL guide on the Net" by Smithsonian magazine.

As technology editor/producer at ABCNEWS.com, Rowell managed the editorial content of the SciTech section. She coordinated the planning and execution of coverage of major technology news stories, such as the Microsoft antitrust trial, the demise of the music swap shop Napster, and computer viruses such as the Love Bug. She gave radio interviews on such breaking stories as Napster and the Love Bug virus, and edited four regular columns and reported on cutting edge technology stories. She also covered other major news stories, such as the 2000 U.S. presidential election.

She got her start in journalism at Monitor Radio, a broadcast service of the Christian Science Monitor. Starting out as an audio engineer, she donned many different hats there, ranging from technical directing to reporting, producing, and studio directing. She tech directed and field produced election coverage from Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 1992 presidential election. She interviewed musicians Luka Bloom, Suzanne Vega, Pops Staples, Shawn Colvin and ice cream makers Ben & Jerry (Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield), to name a few.

Rowell graduated from the Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, New York, with a Master's Degree in film. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, in 1987.

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