The Kila Springs Group provides a spectrum of editorial services in both print- and web-based media—primarily reporting, writing and editing, but also photography, design and production—for clients ranging from trade and general circulation magazines to state and federal agencies.
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one of the nation’s largest public utilities; and for more than two decades a
free-lance writer specializing in description and analysis of the business,
organization and delivery of health care in the United States.
In 2002, Weber received the $10,000 award of excellence for health care
reporting in trade publications given annually by the National Institute for
Health Care Management, in Washington, DC. More than 120 of his
articles are cited in PubMed, the online database of the National Institute
of Medicine/National Institutes of Health.
For a more detailed resume, click here. Recent articles can be read online
here and here .
Before attending seminary at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Rev.
Leigh-Taylor was a hospital public relations director; editor of the monthly
state health department magazine, California’s Health; editor of weekly
and monthly publications of the University of California’s Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory; manager of the University of California,
Berkeley Astronomy Department (where she was in charge of construction
of a major radio-telescope facility); and after assignments at the University
of California, San Francisco, and the UC Office of the President in Oakland
(where she managed a $100 million budget), served as Associate Dean of
the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.
language radiology magazine Diagnostic Imaging America Latina. She is
currently portal editor for the industry-leading developer community
DevX.com.
Weber Morales is more widely known as a Latin jazz singer/composer.
"With her flamboyantly multilingual repertoire," writes Andrew Gilbert in
the San Jose Mercury, "she has carved out a niche on the Bay Area music
scene where Latin jazz rhythms meet a singer-songwriter sensibility. Her
passion for exploration suffuses her music, and whether interpreting tunes
in French, Spanish, Portuguese or English, Weber Morales communicates a
song's emotional essence with an ardent, throaty alto that soars effortlessly
into a crystalline soprano register."
Weber Morales's most recent album isVagabundeo/Wanderings, on the
Patois Records label. Her debut CD, Jazzmérica, won high praise as did her
performance as vocalist on Grammy-nominated trombonist/producer
Wayne Wallace's newest album, The Reckless Search for Beauty!
Weber Morales maintains a website and an eclectic blog, ThinkSong, where
she describes the contortions necessary to blend a musical career and the
mothering of two young children.
Kila Springs associate Erec-Michael Weber writes on real
estate and sports.
A football wide receiver and lacrosse midfielder in high school
and college (he also ran track briefly), Weber is a mortgage
consultant in the Sacramento, CA, market. He has covered high
Journal, Placer Herald and Lincoln News Messenger, and has
contributed to the COR Healthcare Resources' publication Patient Care
Staffing Report.
Kila Springs Group principal David Ollier Weber brings an
extensive background in journalism and public relations to
assignments. He has been a reporter for a daily newspaper in
the San Francisco Bay Area; a PR representative in charge of
writing and production of print materials for a major West
Coast port; editor of the monthly magazine for employees of
Kila Springs Group associate Christine H. Leigh-Taylor
writes on religion and spirituality, organizational dynamics,
business and science. Rev. Leigh-Taylor is an Episcopal
priest and rector of St. Clement’s Episcopal Church in
Rancho Cordova, California.
Kila Springs Group associate Alexa Weber Morales writes
on health, technology and music.
A former editor-in-chief of the award-winning computer
industry trade and consumer magazine Software Development,
Weber Morales has also edited the Spanish- and Portuguese-
school football as a sports reporter for Gold Country Media's Auburn