Deanne Estrada
Editor, Communications Coordinator for OIRED
Phone: (540) 231- 1218
E-mail: destrada@vt.edu
Expertise: Editing, Writing, Print and Electronic Page Design
Education: B.A., English, King College.
Languages: English, Spanish
Experience Summary: Deanne is responsible for all publications and communications for SANREM CRSP, an international agricultural research program managed by OIRED. She writes, edits, and designs SANREM's quarterly newsletter, maintains the SANREM website, and contributes to OIRED's Global University newsletter. Deanne also writes for, edits, and designs proposals, presentations, brochures, posters, research papers, and books.
A native of Giles County, Virginia, Deanne came to OIRED in 2007 from the Los Angeles Times, where she was technology editor and had been night city editor and education editor for the newspaper's Orange County edition. She has also taught reporting, editing, and page design at community colleges in Southern California. Previously, Estrada was deputy business editor of The Orlando Sentinel in Florida.
