My working life revolves around words. I’ve worked in Oregon newsrooms and created content in Manhattan skyscrapers. Journalism helped me explore the world, from the Pacific Northwest to Hong Kong, Beijing, Berlin, and New York. Reporting jobs led to interviews with Hong Kong’s pro-democracy politicians, reviewing a yak burger restaurant in Tibet, and scooping the competition when the jury found Martha Stewart guilty. I’ve helped readers understand surging stocks and skyrocketing real estate prices, as well as the financial carnage of the Great Recession.
I’ve led editorial projects from concept to launch, most recently as the executive editor of the ICSC Small Business Center, an online publication dedicated to serving the information and advisory needs of a crucial section the U.S. economy, contributing 43% of GDP in 2021 with a nationwide payroll of $2.8 trillion.
As a PR executive, I’ve helped Fortune 500 clients tell their stories, and given growth-stage tech companies solid social media footprints. Policymakers decided which social service programs deserve support after reading reports I’ve edited. Along the way, I’ve reviewed hundreds of mysteries, public policy volumes, and history books for Publishers Weekly.
It’s all about clarity, concision, and catchiness. Vivid writing that’s perfectly pitched to its audience may be a story for someone thinking about their investments. It could be an integrated media campaign for a C-Suite executive refining their corporate messaging. It could be a thoughtful review for book lovers wondering if that new mystery novel is any good.
Whether I’m creating content for strategic communications campaigns, editing other writers’ work, or reporting a story, I work with the reader in mind. Take a look at my professional portfolio. I hope it grabs your interest. Together, we can fill blank pages with great work!
“It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.”
— Mark Twain
“The idea is to remove words in such a manner that no one would notice that anything has been removed. Easier with some writers than with others. It’s as if you were removing freight cars here and there in order to shorten a train — or pruning bits and pieces of a plant for reasons of aesthetics or plant pathology, not to mention size. Do not do violence to the author’s tone, manner, nature, style, thumbprint.“
— John McPhee, on editing