Leadership Team
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Clémence R. Scouten, President and Director
Clémence is the founder of Memoirs & More, a service that helps individuals capture and share their family stories across generations. She launched herself into this field after working as a philanthropic advisor in Boston, which unexpectedly opened the door to her first family history project. She is a native and lover of Philadelphia, and holds a BA in English from Penn, and an MA in English from the Sorbonne in Paris. As far as Clémence is concerned, there is no better project than a family history project. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in English, and then receiving an M.A. in English from the Sorbonne in Paris, she worked in corporate settings for fifteen years. But something was missing… She started her business, Memoirs & More, to help people curate and preserve their family history materials. Whether the end product is a memoir, family history book, or an archived collection, she helps families identify what is most important to them and deliver full-service solutions. |
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Alan Bergman, Director
Alan comes to personal history, biography and memoir writing after a long career in New York City’s graphic arts industry. He founded Life Stories Preserved LLC, his Second Act he calls it, in January of 2020. Alan earned his BA in Mass Communications from Binghamton University, where he served as editor-in-chief of the university’s twice-weekly newspaper. He did graduate-level work at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He has authored several sea kayaking blogs and has been a contributor to online magazine, Medium. His favorite part of his Second Act is interviewing clients to capture and retell their life stories. It is extremely gratifying for him when clients truly open-up, and he has laughed and cried together with them on numerous occasions. Based in New York City’s leafy, northern suburbs, Alan can often be found sea kayaking on the Hudson River when not writing a life story on his MacBook Pro or interviewing a client to learn his or her own story. |
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David O’Neil, Treasurer
As the founder of Story Trust, David helps families, businesses, and organizations tell their remarkable stories in ways that create a lasting legacy. His projects have ranged from single-person oral histories to full-featured corporate histories for some of the nation’s largest firms. He specializes in broadcast-quality oral histories and custom crafted history books for families and businesses. Based in the Boston area, David has been a high-school English teacher, book editor, and publishing executive. He holds a BA in economics from American University and a master’s degree in theology from Harvard Divinity School. |
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Jennifer Nelson, Secretary and Director
Jennifer Nelson is a freelance writer, personal historian, and educator based in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She started her company Your Stories after creating a memoir book about her mother who passed away of Covid-19 in May 2020. Through this book filled with photos, the adventures, lessons, and loves of her mother will always be remembered. Jennifer feels it is imperative that stories of other retirees never be lost to time. She helps clients preserve their memories in handsome, keepsake books. She also offers legacy letter and memoir writing workshops.
For many years, Jennifer worked as a journalist for such companies as Bloomberg, McGraw-Hill, the Home News, the Riverdale Press, and NJBiz. She also taught in public and private schools in New Jersey. Jennifer is a member of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the National Association of Memoir Writers, and the Central Bucks County Chamber of Commerce.
Her non-fiction book Teaching by Heart: Lessons Learned in the Classroom will be published next summer. She has an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, a MS in journalism from Columbia University, and a BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jennifer Nelson is a freelance writer, personal historian, and educator based in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She started her company Your Stories after creating a memoir book about her mother who passed away of Covid-19 in May 2020. Through this book filled with photos, the adventures, lessons, and loves of her mother will always be remembered. Jennifer feels it is imperative that stories of other retirees never be lost to time. She helps clients preserve their memories in handsome, keepsake books. She also offers legacy letter and memoir writing workshops.
For many years, Jennifer worked as a journalist for such companies as Bloomberg, McGraw-Hill, the Home News, the Riverdale Press, and NJBiz. She also taught in public and private schools in New Jersey. Jennifer is a member of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the National Association of Memoir Writers, and the Central Bucks County Chamber of Commerce.
Her non-fiction book Teaching by Heart: Lessons Learned in the Classroom will be published next summer. She has an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, a MS in journalism from Columbia University, and a BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley.