Margaret O. Kirk

Margaret O. Kirk is an award-winning freelance writer with over 20 years of experience as a journalist, author, corporate writer and editor.  She specializes in business and medicine, and her articles have appeared in leading newspapers, magazines and websites nationwide, including The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Daily News, The Boston Globe, USA Today, Philadelphia Magazine, MONEY Magazine, Good Housekeeping Magazine, Knowledge@Wharton, KidsHealth.org and BusinessWeekOnLine.  As a freelance writer, Kirk worked as the Philadelphia correspondent for MONEY Magazine and The New York Times Sunday Business News and Real Estate sections.  Her previous bi-weekly business column, “Work Life,” for The Philadelphia Inquirer, was syndicated online.  Prior to her freelance career, Kirk worked as a magazine writer in Philadelphia, PA.; a political reporter in Baltimore, Md.; a social services and government reporter in Wilmington, Del.; and a medical reporter in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Kirk is also the author of numerous corporate and family histories for businesses, hospitals, colleges and prominent families throughout the country.  She served as executive editor of On Staffing: Advice and Perspectives from HR Leaders, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Her biography of O. Wayne Rollins, founder of Rollins, Inc., was published in 1997, followed in 2005 by an authorized history of Rollins’ purchase of Orkin, the first leveraged buyout in American business.  Kirk began working with e-Volunteerism in January 2007.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Kirk lives in Philadelphia with her husband and their three sons.  She does volunteer work for her sons’ schools and is a founding member of Mt. Airy Tree Tenders, a volunteer group that seeks to replenish trees in city neighborhoods.  She can be reached at margaret@e-volunteerism.com.