Kerry has interviewed and profiled a wide range of people, from authors to scientists to musicians. Below are some of the biographical works she has done.
Kerry is a freelancer for EBSCO Information Services, which produces online databases on a variety of topics. She has written profiles of political leaders, authors, and Nobel laureates for EBSCO. Persons profiled include George Tupou of Tonga, Toomas Hendrik Ilves of Estonia, Vladimir Voronin of Moldova, Nobel laureate Osamu Shimomura, Elvin Ernesto Santos of Honduras, and more. These biographies involve extensive research, fact-checking, and are heavily vetted by EBSCO editors.
As a student worker in Reed's admission office, Kerry interviewed several alumni and profiled them for the Reed admission website. Kerry is also a current participant in the Reed College Oral History Project, which involves interviewing alumni from various decades and transcribing their stories for inclusion in a collection of stories to be released at Reed's centennial in 2011.
In 1966, Steven Shapin emerged from Reed College with a degree in biology but, after a year doing graduate work in genetics, he decided that a life in the laboratory was not for him. He then spent a little over a year working in Washington, D.C., on questions of science policy and the direction of scientific research, and was advised that, if he wanted to go on in this line of work, it Òmight be a clever ideaÓ to get a Ph.D.-even though the subject of the Ph.D. didn't seem to matter much to people in the field. Shapin considered various sociology, public administration, government, and other types of departments, and finally came across the University of Pennsylvania's History of Science program. He'd been interested in the history of government policy toward science and thought the program might be a good match for him. At the time, history of science programs were relatively new; they'd emerged after World War I and several were in existence by the 1950s. Harvard, where Shapin now works, established the first history of science program in the U.S. [read more]
Kerry has interviewed many authors, musicians, and other artists. Look for these excerpts in the Arts & Entertainment section, and at Bostonist.