Alyson KuhnAlyson Kuhn is a freelance writer and editor. For more than 20 years, she has worked with brands in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. She has served as senior editor for Heart to Heart Global Cardiac Care for well over a decade (heart-2-hear.org). Since 2017, she has collaborated with the Koret Foundation in San Francisco on stories profiling the accomplishments of its grantees (koret.org). Alyson's writing collaboration with Dr. Jane Mahakian is personal as well as professional. Alyson's mother suffered from dementia, and Alyson benefited from Dr. Jane's coaching over several years. Dr. Jane's clinical wisdom helped Alyson to adapt compassionately to her mother's declining memory and to enjoy a richer (and more humorous) relationship than she could have imagined possible. Alyson has also written extensively about paper, printing, art, and design, including the text for two exhibitions at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum, Alphabetilately and Trailblazers & Trendsetters. In 2018, Alyson co-presented a webinar she named Thoroughly Modern Mail, sponsored partly by the U.S. Postal Service. She is also a popular speaker about the connections made, and creativity sparked, by corresponding on paper. She has written for several design publications, in print and online. Her most recent print articles, both for UPPERCASE magazine, are Snippets and slices and shards, oh my! and Abecedary of Stationery & Epistolary Luminaries. Alyson served as communications director on the board of AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) in San Francisco for five years, stewarding the chapter's philatelic alphabet, a project she conceived, to ever-greater visibility and licensing opportunities, including a seven-year exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum. Alyson received the prestigious AIGA Fellow award in 2015. Read More Read Less