English Judges
Barbra Kingley
Barbra Kingsley, Ph.D. is a Partner with the Kleimann Communication Group in Washington, DC. Dr. Kingsley has over 20 years of experience as an award-winning information designer. She has developed plain language documents for such government agencies as the Department of Health and Human Services, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Her work has won awards from the Society for Technical Communication, the Center for Plain Language, and the National Association of Government Communicators. In addition, Dr. Kingsley has extensive experience field-testing documents with end users. This testing assesses how well typical people can understand, navigate, and use information for the desired outcomes. She also creates hands-on training that conveys how to use the principles of plain language in everyday projects. She has served as a judge for several plain language competitions around the world, including the distinguished WriteMark New Zealand Plain English Awards and the Center for Plain Language’s ClearMark Awards.
Melinda G. Kramer
Melinda G. Kramer has been a communication consultant to businesses and industries including Choice Hotels, Eli Lilly & Co., TRW Inc., Clark Equipment Company, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, General Electric, Bell Telephone Company, as well as leading writing workshops for hundreds of college and university administrative staff throughout the nation. She is the author of journal articles and textbooks, including Business Communication in Context: Principles and Practice (Prentice Hall) and the Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers. Melinda is Emerita Professor of English at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland, serving 11 years as English Department chair. She has taught business and managerial communication for over 30 years to undergraduates and MBA students at Georgetown University and Purdue University. Before joining the Prince George's faculty, she spent ten years as director of management communications at Purdue’s business school. Professor Kramer received her B.A. from Earlham College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Purdue University.
Colleen Ryan Leonard
Colleen is a qualitative research and communication consultant who has built at 25-year career helping organizations understand their audiences and craft outreach that moves people. Taking a path from research (at Westat) to PR (at Porter Novelli) to solo practice, she is especially enthusiastic about research that can be put to use. Colleen is a versatile researcher with a client list extending from the federal government and nonprofits to the private sector. The list includes NCI, CDC, USDA, the Department of State, Arlington Public Schools, Salt Lake City, the American Society of Association Executives, and Lippincott publishers. Several awards have recognized the clarity and public health benefit of Colleen’s work, including a 2011 Clearmark Finalist award and the NIH Director's Award of Merit. As a researcher, Colleen is convinced her greatest asset is her genuine interest in what audiences have to say. She holds an M.A. in Communication from the University of Maryland.
Katy Magee
Katy Magee is Director of Editorial Strategy at Healthwise, a nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make better health decisions. She joined the medical writing staff at Healthwise in 1997 and has been part of the content development team there ever since. She has worked as a writer and editor for health handbooks, online health content, hospital discharge instructions, interactive health tools, and patient decision aids. Today she leads a team in creating award-winning, plain-language content that supports shared decision making and health behavior change. Katy earned a B.A (History) from Trinity University and an M.A. (U.S. History) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Debra Hart May
Debra Hart May, M.S., has more than twenty years' experience in business communications consulting, writing and speaking skills coaching, and training design and development. Founder and president of the Center for Effective Communication, Inc. (established 1992), she designs instructional materials and creates cost-effective performance-improvement solutions for dozens of business clients. She also coaches one-on-one and facilitates training workshops in business writing, business presentation skills, and other interpersonal communication skills. Her clients includes Eli Lilly and Company, Roche Diagnostics, Rolls-Royce Corporation, IU Health, WellPoint, Dow Agrosciences, and the U.S. Department of Labor. Deb is past-president of the Indianapolis Chapter of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), past board member for the Association of Professional Communication Consultants, and author of Proofreading Plain & Simple, and Everyday Letters for Busy People published by Career Press.
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