Wendy Fried is an independent business writer and editor, as well as a lawyer, plain language consultant and policy researcher. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Inc. Magazine and The Hartford Business Journal, and she's a former contributing editor at Footnoted.org. She blogs at The Big Do-Over: Fixing Financial Regulation (see link below).
Wendy had a prior career as a corporate and securities lawyer (mainly on the fixed income side) and served as senior counsel at a prominent trade association, where she worked on regulatory policy and market practice standards for the financial services industry. Her former blog about corporate governance, Proxyland (www.proxyland.blogspot.com), drew praise in Business Week and elsewhere.
Wendy is available for writing and editing assignments, both for publications and for private business clients. She lives in New York City with two teenage sons and a Wheaten terrier, all of whom are constantly lobbying for less regulation.