Kara Babcock
Copyeditor at Lakehead Public Schools
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKara Babcock is a meticulous copyeditor and former English teacher with 14 years of experience helping academics, memoirists, bloggers, and professionals sharpen their written voice. Based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, she combines classroom-honed pedagogy with hands-on freelance editing to deliver fast, style-savvy, and client-centered revisions—from casual articles to dissertations. A lifelong reader who has reviewed every book she reads since 2008, Kara brings a reader’s sensibility and deep attention to detail (yes, Oxford commas included) to every project. She also codes small Python/Flask web projects for fun, pairing technical literacy with editorial craft to support clients who need web-ready content. Outside work she co-hosts two podcasts and knits, demonstrating a quiet creativity that surfaces in both audio storytelling and written form.
14 years of coding experience
Honours Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics, Honours Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics at Lakehead University
Github Skills (61)
werkzeug10
python10
command-line-interface10
bottle10
wsgi10
devkit10
argparse10
micro-framework10
pyramid10
command-line-parser10
webapp10
twine10
flask10
cli10
console9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tachyondecay/tachyondecay.net-mirror
Aug 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:77 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 7 months
tachyondecay/epidemic-simulator
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:28 commits, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 9 days
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