Valerie Berta’s Profile

Valerie Berta
PO Box 829  Hugo, OK 74743    
(909) 229-8963
valerieberta@hotmail.com
www.valerieberta.com




Experience
Freelance photographer and writer
January 2006 to present

Visiting lecturer (photojournalism)
Institut Universitaire Technique (Sophia Antipolis, France) - October to December 2006      

Assistant
Smith/Skolnik Literary Agency (Westfield, NJ) - January to June 1996 and February to June 2005

Staff photographer and writer
The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA) - December 2002 to November 2004
The Journal-Courier (Jacksonville, IL) - August 2000 to November 2002 - with reporting and writing
Columbia Missourian (Columbia, MO) - Summer 1992

Freelance photographer
October 1999  to April 2000 - Agence France-Presse (AFP) wire; The Washington Post, The Houston Chronicle
1995 - various local organizations and publications (Wilmington, DE, Paris, France)

Photo editor
AFP: web  sites (Paris, France) - July 1996 to July 1997
AFP: international picture desk (Paris, France; Hong Kong, China) - August 1997 to August 1999

Assistant coordinator for Pictures of the Year
University of Missouri-Columbia (Columbia, MO) - Winter 1994 (staff - Winter 1995)

Photo intern
The Herald Journal (Logan, UT) - Fall 1994
The News Journal (Wilmington, DE) - Summer 1993

Founder and director of the Voices Workshop
Photo workshop for disadvantaged children (Columbia, MO) - Fall 1992 - Winter 1993 - Summer 1994

Instructor
Beginning French (University of Georgia at Athens) - August 1989 to June 1990



Education    
Master's degree
Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia (Columbia, MO) - 1991 to 1994
English (American Studies), Universite Paris VII (Paris, France) - 1984 to 1989



Other
Fluency in Spanish and French



References
Steve Copper: Editor, The Journal-Courier (Jacksonville, IL) - (217) 245-6121

Joel Beeson: Assistant Professor of Visual Communications, P.I. Reed School of Journalism, West Virginia University (Morgantown, WV) - (304) 293-3505

Steve Warmowski: Former Photo Editor, The Journal-Courier (Jacksonville, IL) - (217) 473-5581