Amy Hirschfeld has more than 30 years of experience in writing, editing, publications production, and marketing. She has taught technical writing, public speaking, and business communication courses at Tufts University since 2001 and joined Tufts Gordon Institute in 2009, where she is a distinguished senior lecturer. Previously, she held positions with academic publishers, including the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Walter de Gruyter Publishers, and Brill Academic Publishers, where she served as the Marketing Director for North America. She has also worked as a professional archaeologist and served as the executive director of a non-profit organization focused on archaeological research.