Dara Chadwick

Dara Chadwick is a Warwick, Rhode Island-based writer and communications consultant with expertise in print and digital content and in messaging and communications strategy for healthcare, government and nonprofit clients. She writes features, profiles, Q&As, case studies, white papers, campaign materials, blog posts, and SEO-optimized digital content. She’s the author of the award-winning nonfiction book, You’d Be So Pretty If…: Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies — Even When We Don’t Love Our Own. Her work has appeared in AARP Bulletin, CURE, Cancer Today, The Daily Beast, The Physiologist, Shape, Parenting, Family Circle, Woman’s Day, Better Homes & Gardens and Working Mother.

Dara is an ASJA Board member and served as Chair of the 2024 ASJA Awards Committee.

 

info Subjects

General

Government & Politics
Health & Medicine
Wellness
Science
Fitness & Nutrition

notepad Skills

  • Blog posts
  • Books
  • Case studies
  • Communications strategy
  • Conference coverage
  • Content marketing
  • Feature writing
  • Donor communications
  • Government relations
  • Grant writing
  • Media relations
  • White papers
  • Web copy
  • Speechwriting
  • SEO
  • Q&A
  • Scripts
  • Annual reports
  • Brochures
  • Editing
  • Ghostwriting
  • Op-Ed
  • News releases
  • Conference/meeting coverage
  • Articles
  • Profiles
  • Publicity

notepad Writing Credits

CURE, The Physiologist, Cancer Today, Better Homes & Gardens, Family Circle, Woman’s Day, Shape

notepad Book Credits

You’d Be So Pretty If…: Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies — Even When We Don’t Love Our Own (Da Capo Press)

star Awards, Honors, Appointments

American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Book Award, Service, 2010.

Selected Work

As author, unless indicated otherwise.

You'd Be So Pretty If...: Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies — Even When We Don't Love Our Own

A book exploring the powerful effect that a mother’s self-image has on her daughter.

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A Love For Discovery

Profile on Lacy Alexander, PhD, FAPS and her research to find new ways to improve women’s health.

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