2000-Present
HessArts / Writer, Photographer, Project Manager
Clients include Mayor’s Office of Art, Culture and Film-Denver; Zonta Club of Denver: Shalkey and Team, landscape architects; CorporateGreetings, Inc.; Mt. San Rafael Hospital; Advanced Digital Strategies; Old World Lighting; Trinidad & Las Animas County Chamber of Commerce; Old Pass Gallery; City of Trinidad Tourism Board; A.R. Mitchell Museum; Trinidad History Museum; Trinidad and Las Animas County Economic Development; Southern Colorado Repertory Theatre; Century Financial Group; First Street Gallery; Victoria Ann's Chocolates; John Finch Design Studio; Skyline Art Services-Houston; Cause Communications.

1989-2000
Diane Hess Editorial Services / Editor
Clients include Westview Press, HarperCollins, Humanities Press, Lynne Rienner Publishers,
Rowman Littlefield, Libraries Unlimited, St. Martin’s Press. ABC Clio, Perseus Books.

A sampling of titles and author comments:

This is the best editing I have enjoyed since my first book with Oxford University Press almost 30 years ago.
—Michael D. Reagan
Curing the Crisis: Options for America’s Healthcare,1992

You can’t believe how happy I am with the work. The ms is tight, to the point, doesn’t wander yet is still human—that certainly isn’t the way you received it and I thank you for it. I am ecstatic over the work you have done.
—Richard Pillsbury
No Foreign Foods: The American Diet in Time and Place, 1997

You are quite extraordinary! Thanks for the engagement of the last few days. Our volume is immensely improved by your attention to it.
—Henry Schwarz
Reading the Shape of the World: Toward an International Cultural Studies,1995

Diane Hess did a fine job. Her work was intelligent and restrained. I do quite a bit of editing at the Washington Post and appreciate the effort it takes to do a careful job.
—Dennis J. Coyle and Richard J. Ellis
Politics, Policy, and Culture: Applying Grid-Group Analysis, 1993

1980-89 / Administrator and Editor

I have known and worked with Diane Hess for almost six years. … She has consistently been an exceptionally responsible, organized, knowledgeble and capable administrator. Her excellent written . . . communication skills were a great asset. She is unfailingly tactful in her handling of often sensitive and difficult situations. She can be depended upon to understand a situation, analyze the problems involved, organize a system for a solution, and follow the system through to make sure it continues to function—making adjustments as necessary.
—Jan Frame
Assistant Vice President, Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for CancerResearch

Diane coordinated the preparation of several successful, large (over $1,000,000) grants to the National Institutes of Health. … She was extremely pleasant to work with. … She took on the responsibility of aiding me in preparation of written materials for publication in the professional and lay press. She was excellent in these roles.
—David Patterson, Ph.D.
President, Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research