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Skills and Services:
- Journalism And Reporting
- Writing Instruction and Teaching
- Spanish Language Translation and Instruction
- Proofreading and Editing
- Public Speaking
Awards:
Education:
- Our Lady Of Mercy High School. Rochester, New York.
- University of Rochester. Graduate, Bachelor's Degree in English, with minor in foreign languages.
- Postgraduate study at Nazareth College in Rochester and at Finger Lakes Community College.
Job Experience:
- Fourteen years experience as Retail Manager for Wayside Garden Center, also providing interior and exterior landscaping services.
- An additional fourteen years experience serving as Manager of a Tree Farm in the Western New York Finger Lakes Area.
- Over a decade's subsequent experience as a freelance journalist and writer.
- Several years as a writing teacher, specializing in journalism, memoir, genre, and young adult and historical fiction.
- Several years as a Spanish translator, and as an instructor of Spanish and English for companies with large numbers of Spanish-speaking employees.
- Developed the instructional course, "Spanish For Working People" ©, a practical method for teaching job-oriented conversational Spanish for people interacting with Spanish-speaking co-workers in the workplace environment.
Clients for Spanish Instruction for Businesses:
- Ontario County
- Cornell Cooperative Extension Dairy Program
- Clear Plastic Manufacturing of PennYan
- Various individual landscaping companies
Spanish Translation Clients:
- De May Labor Contracting of Sodus
- Willowbrook Farms
Teaching and Writing Instruction Clients:
- Writers & Books
- Finger Lakes Community College - Continuing Education
- Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES
- Strong Museum (in collaboration with Writers & Books)
Publications:
- Palmyra Courier-Journal
- Genesee Country
- Finger Lakes Travel Guide
- Grower
- Country Folk
- Hard Hat News
- American Cemetary
- Over The Back Fence
- The Phoenix
- Unreal City
- Dusty Bohemia
- Western Digest
Recent Public Speaking Engagements:
- St. John Fisher College
- Terlingua Springs Cafe
- Moonbeams
- Palmyra Library
References:
- Joe Flaherty, Executive Director, Writers & Books. Email: joef (at) wab.org. Phone: 585-473-2590 ext 102.
- Wendy Low, Director of Youth Education and Community Outreach, Writers & Books. Email: wendyl (at) wab.org. Phone: 585-473-2590 ext 109.
- David Pascal, CEO, Pascal & Associates. Email: davidpascal (at) gmail.com. Phone: 585-256-3514.
- Wayside Garden Center, www.waysidegardencenter.com. Email: info (at) waysidegardencenter.com. Phone: 585-223-1222.
Camy Sorbello
Writer, Teacher, Translator, Journalist
Palmyra, New York
phone: (315) 597-9791
email: camy@camysorbello.com
web: www.camysorbello.com
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