"One of the top minds in the publishing business."
Jeevan Subramaniam
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
"An uncanny ability to deliver the right message at the right time."
Deborah Schwarz-McGregor
Columbia University Medical Center
"A consultant with style and wit."
Pauline Tesler, author
Collaborative Divorce
ReganBooks/HarperCollins
JOURNALISM
As a reporter and interviewer, Valerie Andrews has spent over 25 years chronicling scientific and social innovation. Her work has appeared in major magazines, on PBS and the Internet.
CONSULTING
Authors & Publishers
As a consultant, Valerie provides a variety of services for publishers and authors, including book editing and the crafting of syndicated columns, articles and newsletters. She has worked with best selling authors Robert Johnson and Jean Shinoda Bolen, environmentalist Thomas Berry, former FedEx CFO Roger Frock and career consultant Cliff Hakim, founder of Rethinking Work.
Special expertise: business, science, medicine and psychology, memoir, global and cultural trends.
Physicians & Medical Institutions
As a medical and science writer, Valerie has produced educational materials for both consumers and clinicians. Among her recent clients are Columbia University Medical Center, California Pacific Medical Center's Institute for Health and Healing, The Alexander Foundation for Women's Health, EVEO, Inc. and The Institute for One World Health, the first non-profit pharmaceutical company.
SEMINARS
As an educator, Valerie directs Sacred Words: A Center for Healing Stories, offering seminars on film and storytelling, creativity and life transitions.
MUSIC
As a composer, Valerie provides music for healing and inspiration. Her recent CD, Mindful Music, has been recommended by therapists and physicians. She also creates soundtracks for films and videos.
Recent Projects
Co-author with Allan Weis, THE BUSINESS OF CHANGING LIVES: How One Company Took the Information Superhighway to the Inner City
Greenleaf Book Group
Fall 2009
Writer/Researcher, NOURISH, documentary on the food system featuring Alice Waters and Michael Pollan.
Fall 2009
Host and Interviewer, DVD,
A Conversation with Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen, author, Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World
Conari Press
Writer/Managing Editor
Surgical Breakthroughs
New York-Presbyterian Hospital