Sherri Schultz | Principal

Sherri Schultz graduated magna cum laude from the Honors College at the University of Oregon, then worked as an editor and proofreader in Washington, D.C., with National Public Radio, City Paper, and various nonprofit organizations. For the past 15 years she has been a freelance copyeditor and proofreader working with a wide array of book publishers, periodicals, individuals, companies, and nonprofit organizations across the country. She also does substantive editing and copywriting, mainly for nonprofits and websites. 

Adaptable and flexible, Sherri is thoroughly conversant with The Chicago Manual of Style and The AP Stylebook. She has a passion for ensuring that text is compelling and error-free, and her clients are equally effusive in response: “You are amazing,” “exceptional,” "awesome," “editing with intelligence, taste, and care,” “wonderful insights,” "amazing talent," and “YOU ROCK!” are just a few of their comments.

As a copyeditor and proofreader, Sherri specializes in trade nonfiction books in the areas of the arts, travel, the environment, and politics, but also has extensive experience with periodicals, websites, advertising, packaging, catalogs, brochures, and newsletters. Her corporate clients have included Adobe Systems, Amazon.com, Microsoft, Nordstrom, Premera Blue Cross, and Weyerhaeuser. 

As a writer and editor, she has been honored to contribute her talents to nonprofit organizations such as the Council for a Livable World and the Herbert Scoville Peace Fellowship Program (Washington, D.C.); the Poetry Foundation (Chicago); Northwest Environment Watch, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Women's Funding Alliance (Seattle); and the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California and the University Mound Ladies Home (San Francisco). 

Sherri is the founder of the Northwest Independent Editors Guild, an 11-year-old nonprofit professional network for  Northwest freelance editors, which now has more than 200 members throughout Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. She relocated to San Francisco in 2006 but remains on the steering committee of the Editors Guild as well as the advisory board of the University of Washington Editing Certificate Program. 

Sherri has been a guest lecturer in the UW Editing Certificate Program and has appeared on panels at conferences and meetings of Book Publishers Northwest, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and the Pacific Northwest Writers Association. She was a featured guest expert at Solving Your Problems, a nationally presented workshop sponsored by Copy Editor: Language News for the Publishing Profession.

Sherri believes in giving back to her community. She donates writing and editing services to San Francisco nonprofit organizations via the Taproot Foundation, which organizes teams of professionals to do pro bono work. She also designs and leads personalized walking tours of San Francisco through the Golden Gate Greeter program of Joie de Vivre hotels. Sherri is a member of the Bay Area Editors’ Forum, City Guides, the Commonwealth Club, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the San Francisco Film Society, and the Victorian Alliance. She is also a proud microlender with Kiva.org, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a devotee of the Colbert Nation. Her resume is available online.

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