Ellen Gordon Reeves, who started helping her friends with their résumés in high school, now consults to individuals and institutions in the U.S. and abroad. She has an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and spent fifteen years as the education editor of the New Press. She currently divides her time between Boston, Providence, and New York City, where she serves as the résumé and job-hunting expert at the Columbia Publishing Course.