Kim A. O'Connell, principal of Green Quill Communications, is an award-winning journalist who has published widely in newspapers and magazines. Kim specializes in historic preservation, conservation, and sustainable design.
Kim's work has been published in Preservation, Modernism, National Parks, National Geographic News, American Hiker, Traditional Building, America's Civil War, Old House Journal, the New York Times Syndicate, and the Washington Post, among others. She also writes A Capital Column, a blog for Traditional Building magazine.
Kim has a master's degree in historic preservation from Goucher College. Her thesis dealt with preserving Appalachian heritage.
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kim(at)greenquill(dot)com
Phone: 703-920-4022
Fax: 703-997-7601
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| Lorton Feature Wins Prize |
Kim's feature article about the preservation and adaptive reuse of the historic Lorton Prison has won a prize in the National Association of Real Estate Editors' 2010 journalism competition. Published in OnSite magazine, the Washington Business Journal's real estate quarterly, the feature was the cover story of the Winter 2010 issue and dealt with both the history of the sprawling site and the myriad players involved in rehabilitating it for new uses.
The NAREE judges had this to say about Kim's article: "A well-researched historical piece, it provides context for a current predicament of rehabilitating a vacant Virginia prison. The article takes readers into the opportunities and challenges of completely changing the land-use plan.”
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Arlington Cemetery
Kim's field guide to the Civil War sites in Arlington National Cemetery appears in the June 2010 issue of Civil War Times.
NPS Director Interview
Kim's interview with Jon Jarvis, the newly confirmed director of the National Park Service, appears in the Fall/Winter issue of Parks magazine.
Preservation Book Review
Kim reviewed a seminal text on the historic preservation movement for Period Homes magazine's November 2009 issue.
Little Saigon
Kim's short feature story on the Vietnamese community in Washington, D.C., titled "Little Saigon: Lost and Found," appears in the Fall 2009 issue of OnSite magazine, a Washington Business Journal publication.
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