Chandra K. Clarke
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Chandra K. Clarke is an author, columnist, and business woman.
Clarke began her career as a freelance journalist, working for several small weeklies and community newspapers in Southwestern Ontario
, specializing in municipal affairs and agribusiness reporting, while completing a Bachelor of Arts at Athabasca University. She then took a position as a managing editor before striking out on her own in 1997 to found Scribendi.com, an editorial services company located in Chatham-Kent, Ontario
.
As an entrepreneur, Clarke has achieved prominence both at home and abroad. In 2009, she led the company to win Best in Class at the Interactive Media Awards, and was a finalist for Best Canadian Entrepreneur, Best Overall Company of the Year, and Most Innovative Company of the Year at the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, at ceremonies held in New York. In 2010, her company won an International Business Award for Best Writing/Web Content, beating a much larger rival, Accenture, at ceremonies held in Istanbul. She was a 2010 Enterprising Woman of the Year finalist in Enterprising Women magazine, and most recently, was named to the Profit W100, an annual ranking of Canada's top women entrepreneurs. Clarke also presents at conferences and panels on technology issues and women in business.
An advocate of space exploration, Clarke has been involved in several Canadian space advocacy groups, including the Canadian Space Society
, the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
and Mars Society
Canada. She received her MSc in space studies in 2003 from the University of North Dakota
. She is featured in the book Women of Space: Cool Careers on the Final Frontier (ISBN 1-894959-03-5).
She is also known for her popular weekly humour column, published online and in print in several publications around the world. Formerly known as In My Humble Opinion, it is now simply published under her name. The column is an eclectic, humorous look at such universal issues as family, parenthood, and modern life, as well as the latest science and technology news.
More recently, Clarke and her British husband Terence W. Johnson, launched WhatDoesThatMean.com, a popular, user-built lexicon of English idioms from around the globe.
Clarke began her career as a freelance journalist, working for several small weeklies and community newspapers in Southwestern Ontario
Southwestern Ontario
Southwestern Ontario is a subregion of Southern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario, centred on the city of London. It extends north to south from the Bruce Peninsula on Lake Huron to the Lake Erie shoreline, and east to south-west roughly from Guelph to Windsor. The region had a population...
, specializing in municipal affairs and agribusiness reporting, while completing a Bachelor of Arts at Athabasca University. She then took a position as a managing editor before striking out on her own in 1997 to found Scribendi.com, an editorial services company located in Chatham-Kent, Ontario
Chatham-Kent, Ontario
Chatham–Kent is a unitary authority in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Mostly rural, its centres of population are Blenheim, Chatham, Dresden, Ridgetown, Tilbury and Wallaceburg. Modern Chatham–Kent was created in 1998 by the merger of Kent County and its municipalities.- History :The former city of...
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As an entrepreneur, Clarke has achieved prominence both at home and abroad. In 2009, she led the company to win Best in Class at the Interactive Media Awards, and was a finalist for Best Canadian Entrepreneur, Best Overall Company of the Year, and Most Innovative Company of the Year at the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, at ceremonies held in New York. In 2010, her company won an International Business Award for Best Writing/Web Content, beating a much larger rival, Accenture, at ceremonies held in Istanbul. She was a 2010 Enterprising Woman of the Year finalist in Enterprising Women magazine, and most recently, was named to the Profit W100, an annual ranking of Canada's top women entrepreneurs. Clarke also presents at conferences and panels on technology issues and women in business.
An advocate of space exploration, Clarke has been involved in several Canadian space advocacy groups, including the Canadian Space Society
Canadian Space Society
The Canadian Space Society is a federally-incorporated non-profit Canadian corporation. Inspired by the old L5 Society and other space interest groups, its principal objective is to sponsor and promote the involvement of Canadians in the development of Space...
, the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada is a national, non-profit, charitable organization devoted to the advancement of astronomy and related sciences. At present, there are 29 local branches of the Society, called centres, located in towns and cities across the country from St. John's,...
and Mars Society
Mars Society
The Mars Society is an international space advocacy non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the human exploration and settlement of the planet Mars. It was founded by Robert Zubrin and others in 1998 and attracted the support of notable science fiction writers and filmmakers, including Kim...
Canada. She received her MSc in space studies in 2003 from the University of North Dakota
University of North Dakota
The University of North Dakota is a public university in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. Established by the Dakota Territorial Assembly in 1883, six years before the establishment of the state of North Dakota, UND is the oldest and largest university in the state and enrolls over 14,000 students. ...
. She is featured in the book Women of Space: Cool Careers on the Final Frontier (ISBN 1-894959-03-5).
She is also known for her popular weekly humour column, published online and in print in several publications around the world. Formerly known as In My Humble Opinion, it is now simply published under her name. The column is an eclectic, humorous look at such universal issues as family, parenthood, and modern life, as well as the latest science and technology news.
More recently, Clarke and her British husband Terence W. Johnson, launched WhatDoesThatMean.com, a popular, user-built lexicon of English idioms from around the globe.