Coach Colleen

Colleen Fitzpatrick of Simsbury, Conn. (email), has been a career coach for the Chips Quinn Scholars program since 2000. Previously, she was managing editor of Fine Gardening magazine and had a variety of editing and reporting jobs at newspapers nationwide. Her jobs ranged from reporter at the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Mass., The Fresno (Calif.) Bee and The Providence (R.I.) Journal to national reporter at The Detroit News. She also has been a bureau manager at The Providence Journal, city editor at the Times Union in Albany, N.Y., and assistant news editor with Knight Ridder in Washington, D.C. She began her career in 1980 as a science-reporting intern at the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News. She is a graduate of Stanford University and is working toward a master’s degree at Wesleyan University.