Arlene Edmonds

Arlene Edmonds is a prolific stringer, freelance magazine writer, and editor who has had more than 10,000 by-lines in dozens of publications. Over the past 27 years, she has covered a variety of beats ranging from front-page and investigative pieces to health and wellness, arts and entertainment, education, religion and spirituality, social justice issues, politics, child and family policy, travel, history, and hyper-local community news. Edmonds has interviewed people ranging from the grassroots to academia and high-profile places. She has covered national events such as the 2012 Democratic convention in Charlotte. She appears regularly in the Philadelphia Tribune and Journal Register Co. newspapers. Edmonds currently teaches writing at Saint Joseph's and Pennsylvania State universities, is a private piano instructor, and was a classroom music and dance teacher. She was also a previous recipient of mid-career fellowships, including ones from the Casey Journalism Center for Children and Families, the University of Maryland Child and Family Policy Center, and the Fund for Investigative Journalism. A New Yorker of Caribbean and Latino descent, Edmonds holds a B.A. in journalism from Temple University and an M.A. in English from Saint Joseph's University. She lives in Northwest Philadelphia.

Proposal: How the higher estrogen levels in African American and Latina women impact higher incidents of ovarian and breast cancer and birth control side effects.