She’s now West Coast Editorial Director for Patch.com, AOL’s hyperlocal news network. Parker taught at and was Assistant Dean at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School for several years, and then joined the non-profit Center for Investigative Reporting where she served as Launch Manager for California Watch, CIR’s statewide investigative reporting unit. Previously she did stints at AOL, where she was a Director of Programming for a new channel on the AOL service and was Assistant Managing Editor at Intuit’s quicken.com, then the leading personal finance website. Parker has also done consulting on content strategy for Yahoo, AllVoices.com, among others. Parker graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a degree in journalism and earned a master’s degree from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy. She also does media training overseas through a foundation she and two other journalism colleagues founded.