Portfolio

Check samples of my work below.

Journalism

Feature stories:

• Campground Comrades
  Whether it’s rappelling down a cliff, canoeing the Rio Grande or mowing the grass, volunteer park hosts are at home in the wild. Texas Co-op Power magazine
• Five cowboy poets invite us into their world
  I dropped in on the Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Alpine, Texas, and found reciters who keep alive the Western storytelling tradition. Houston Chronicle
• Finds on the Farm
  Come with me to the Round Top Antique Show, one of America’s largest antiques fairs. Texas Co-op Power magazine
• Father Figures
  A new generation of dads juggle priorities to care for their children. Good Life magazine

Investigative:

• Fatigue Puts Rail Workers on Dangerous Track | Houston Chronicle

Business column:

• Elevator Pitches: Sex Appeal and More | LocalBusiness.com

University News and Communications

• Press release: Ready to Lead Haiti’s Agricultural Sector, Scholars Prepare to Head Home with UF Master’s Degrees | University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
• Printed booklet: Feed the Future AREA project | University of Florida (28-page booklet that I wrote and edited; graphic design by Jacqueline Merveille.)
• Haitian farmers learning ways to address climate risks | Feed the Future Haiti AREA project
• Gender matters in Haitian agriculture | Feed the Future AREA project
• Four Florida Grads from Haiti Spearhead Agricultural Project in their Homeland | Feed the Future Haiti AREA project
• How an online program at UF offers ambitious high school students a head start | College of Education, University of Florida
• Press release: Athletes have coaches, why not teachers? | This story also appeared as an op-ed in Florida newspapers | University of Florida, College of Education

Website Design and Development

• TexasCoopPower.com
  Associate editor and website redesign leader.
• Lower Colorado River Authority
  Web editor and content team leader | Won award from the Texas Public Relations Association, Best Corporate Website, 2003

Corporate and Organizational communications

• Come Together
  Members of electric cooperatives tell why their co-ops are worth celebrating. | Texas Electric Cooperatives | Won Statewide Editors Association award for Best Feature, 2012
• High tech dependent on clean water
  Story featured on river authority’s website was picked up by Texas newspapers. | Lower Colorado River Authority

Literary Essay

• Really Living
  Blue Mesa Review, literary magazine, University of New Mexico

More

• See CharlesBoisseau.Contently.com