Chandra K. Clarke

Who is Chandra K. Clarke?

Chandra K. Clarke, is an author, columnist, and business woman.

Clarke began her career as a freelance journalist, working for several small weeklies and community newspapers in Southwestern Ontario, specializing in municipal affairs and agribusiness reporting, while completing a Bachelor of Arts at Athabasca University. She then took a position as a managing editor before striking out on her own in 1997 to found Scribendi.com, an editorial services company located in Chatham-Kent, Ontario that employs 200 people, and can proofread over 1.5 million words per week.

An advocate of space exploration, Clarke has been involved in several Canadian space advocacy groups, including the Canadian Space Society, the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and Mars Society Canada. She received her MSc in space studies in 2003 from the University of North Dakota. She is featured in the book Women of Space: Cool Careers on the Final Frontier. Her website to promote citizen science projects was a 2013 Webby Honoree.

She is also known for her popular weekly humour column, published online and in print in several publications around the world. Formerly known as In My Humble Opinion, it is now simply published under her name. The column is an eclectic, humorous look at such universal issues as family, parenthood, and modern life, as well as the latest science and technology news.