Nice to meet you! Here’s a bit about me.

I’m a writer with a passion for storytelling.  After 11 years in Paris working in translation and publishing, I spent the next 12 as editor of Brown Medicine magazine, the award-winning  publication of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. I spent another 10 writing and podcasting for Brown’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.

Since then, I’ve been having a blast (and staving off dementia) writing for a range of university magazines. Collaborating with smart, dedicated editors, I’ve gotten to tell stories on topics I’d never imagined having to master, from museum conservation to CRISPR-Cas9, from health care behind bars to changes in the wildfire regime in Siberian larch forests. The process can be a bear, but there’s little I find more rewarding than transforming a complex topic into something readers will care about.

I also work with creative agencies on branding. I love to listen, listen, and listen some more to the human beings who make up an organization, and then alchemize their thoughts into a mission, vision, and values they can stand behind. And whether I’m writing an admissions viewbook or an annual report, I relish making clients’ communications materials as compelling as they are authentic.