Daniela Blei

DEPUTY DIRECTOR & HEAD OF EDITORIAL SERVICES

Daniela is a historian who has spent more than a decade helping others find bigger ideas and tell better stories. She has published widely on many subjects, including German history, monuments and museums, and the history of science and medicine. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Since her Ph.D. at Stanford, Mellon fellowship at UC Berkeley, and teaching days at Reed College, she has explored the intersections of politics and society. As an instructor for The Thinking Writer pitch class, she helped other scholars bring their research to larger audiences. As a volunteer interpreter in the Bay Area’s immigration courts, she also helps immigrants tell their stories. As an editor, she has helped faculty publish with Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, UNC, University of California, Routledge, and other top presses. Having ushered into the world many books by other scholars, she is now writing one about the forgotten past and disappearing future of six of the world's famous beaches. Daniela is based in California and enjoys working with book and article writers and public scholars — in both English and Spanish — especially at the idea development stage.

Services:

Transform & Advance, Book Development, Book Proposal, Public Scholars, and Developmental Editing