English Judges
Robin Grunder
Robin Grunder combines a strong interest in using design to organize and clarify content with a focus on the user experience across a variety of touch points. With a double major in English and Art History, Robin thought she had to decide between words and pictures. She began her career as an editor of mass market fiction, until lured by the siren song of the graphic design world. Starting her own studio, she designed branding projects, marketing collateral communications and overall creative programs for non-profits and small businesses, until joining the Simplification practice at Addison as an information designer and ultimately as design director for the practice. At Addison, Robin worked with Fortune 500 companies in the financial and health insurance sectors, using information design principles to make functional documents clear and engaging. In 2014 she started Blue Egg Strategy, combining information design and customer experience principles to help words and pictures work together.
Lynda Harris
Lynda Harris has dedicated her career to championing the benefits of plain language. Since 1989, Lynda has been proving to businesses of all shapes and sizes that writing clearly is essential to their success. Her communications consultancy, Write, is recognised as a market leader in plain language solutions both in New Zealand and internationally. Lynda developed the WriteMark — New Zealand’s document quality mark — and in 2006 founded New Zealand’s annual WriteMark Plain English Awards. Her first book, Rewrite, was published recently. Lynda is the New Zealand representative for Clarity, a global association that promotes plain language in the legal profession. She’s also a member of the International Plain Language Foundation, which aims to establish standards for plain language across countries and cultures. In September 2015, Lynda was awarded the Mowat Plain Language Achievement Award ― an international award recognizing an outstanding contribution to advancing the cause of plain language.
Candi Harrison
Candi Harrison was Web Manager for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. With Candi’s leadership, HUD won numerous awards, including the first Digital Government Citizen Services Award. She founded the government Web Managers Forum, wrote U.S. government web policies, and co-chaired the Federal Web Managers Council until she retired in September 2005. Candi has taught courses and published a blog – Candi On Content – in her areas of expertise, customer service and plain language. She has served as a judge for the U.S. ClearMark Plain Language Awards and New Zealand’s Writemark Plain Language Awards for several years. Link for Candi On Content: http://candioncontent.blogspot.com/
Charlene Haykel, Lead Judge
Charlene Haykel is a communications consultant with 40 years’ experience developing marketing and educational materials for companies and public sector organizations. A former principal at three NY agencies, she is currently managing principal of The Haykel Group, a consultancy focused on effectively communicating complex information to lay audiences. In 1998, she developed and trademarked a process called MacrosimplificationTM for applying the principles of document simplification across a broad swath of corporate communications. Since then, this process has framed her work with dozens of companies and led to transformative changes in how they viewed and managed their customer and corporate communications and budgets. Charlene earned an MA in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill which recently named her its Hearst Visiting Professional. She also holds a BA in English from Daemen College in Buffalo, NY.
Richard Horn
Richard Horn led the final TRID rule (the TILA-RESPA integrated disclosures) while a Senior Counsel & Special Advisor in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Office of Regulations. He also led the CFPB’s design and consumer testing of the integrated disclosures. Prior to joining the CFPB, Richard was a senior attorney at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the New York Regional Office. As the key architect of the TRID rule, Richard is the foremost expert on the rule. Currently in private practice at Richard Horn Legal, PLLC, Richard advises clients of all sizes, including banks, credit unions, non-bank mortgage lenders and brokers, on all state and federal regulatory compliance matters for consumer lending. He advises on all regulations issued by the CFPB and other consumer finance laws. He also provides counsel in regulatory examination preparation, investigations, and enforcement actions.
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