About
We are skilled editors who can help achieve your goals
Rainier Editing LLC is the Seattle-based editing firm of Cindy Reeh, along with a small team of highly qualified editors. We use the power and effectiveness of clear communication to help you succeed. Rainier Editing serves a range of clients, all with their own visions and communication styles. Most of our clients are organizations and individuals who are committed to solving some of the world’s biggest problems related to global public health. Clients value our professionalism, skills, responsiveness, and timeliness.
We specialize in editing public health journal manuscripts, reports, web content, curricula, and other materials. Our services include substantive editing, copyediting, and proofreading. If you're not sure what type of editing you need, please contact us.
Rainier Editing's team approach enables us to manage a higher volume of work to meet clients' needs and to offer greater availability. Our established editing team brings many years of professional experience independently as well as working together. All team members also belong to Mightier, a collective of woman-owned businesses that collaborate to promote the social good.
Cindy Reeh
About the owner
For more than 20 years, I have worked as a professional editor helping authors refine and polish their ideas to make a lasting impact. The majority of my work is related to global health (public health in lower- and middle-income countries). My experience includes editing over 300 journal manuscripts published in peer-reviewed journals and working with individual authors and organizations on a wide variety of publications. I am well-versed in many editorial styles and I stay current with industry best practices and standards.
I've always enjoyed languages and expressing ideas through writing. Through editing, I can use my skills to help advance valuable research in global health. I first began editing during my job as a program associate at a global health project at AED in Washington, DC, in 2001-2005. When I worked at PATH in Seattle in 2006-2009, I continued editing and refining my skills. Finally, in 2010, I enrolled in a University of Washington editing certificate program and launched my career as an editor.
I worked as an independent editor until 2016 when I joined as a co-owner of Tandem Editing, a business partnership with Kyra Freestar and Connie Chaplan. My partners and I managed several exciting projects and clients and ever-increasing workloads. In 2022, I launched Rainier Editing to shift my focus to global health work and to provide clients with a team-based approach to meet their specific needs.
My educational background includes a master's degree in international development (with a focus on public health) from the George Washington University in Washington, DC, and a bachelor's degree in international studies and German language (with a dual minor in political science and Spanish language). After graduating, I worked at AED (now FHI 360) and PATH, both global health nonprofits. I worked on projects related to behavior change communications, water and sanitation, reproductive health, supply chain, immunization, infectious disease, noncommunicable disease, and many other cross-cutting topics. I also learned how to shepherd documents through the many steps of publication—including conception, funding, research, writing, revising, editing, finalizing, obtaining approvals, design and layout, printing, and finally, distribution. This experience has proven invaluable to me as an editor. My experience in project management has also given me a deep understanding of how projects work—I was heavily involved in developing proposals, negotiating and preparing contracts, opening field offices, providing oversight and administration of fieldwork, arranging worldwide meetings and conferences, managing small grants, and reporting to donors.
To learn more about my professional background, refer to my resume.
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