Bridgette Tuckfield
I've always loved the written word.
I majored in Linguistics and minored in Editing at BYU, while working as a staff writer and editor on the university's alumni magazine. My Honors program thesis included starting and helming a local arts and culture magazine for Provo, which led to a career at Accenture as a systems integration analyst.
Based out of San Francisco but working all over, my projects included overhauling social assistance programs for the Government of Haiti, writing and running training for an LA investment firm, helping to devise a new integrated sales system for a health insurance company, and more.
While living and working in Haiti, I became fascinated with how narratives work across cultures, which brought me back to my first love of semiotics. So after that project, I applied for and was accepted into Aarhus University's MA program in cognitive semiotics. Living in Denmark, I was able to explore and study how the human brain creates and processes meaning in sign systems -- including and especially through writing. It was also in Denmark that I worked as a writer and editor, both freelance and for an underwater survey company where I got to talk about software and shipwrecks.
I'm passionate about the power of narrative and the importance of voice, and of matching both to the function of a message. Ultimately both writing and editing are about creating the most effective way to reach another person, whether they be a friend, a stranger, or an entire demographic. Writing and editing both are about successfully connecting to others, and it is for this reason that I love working with words, and it is this philosophy that I work by.