About

I’m an award-winning journalist and cultural narrative and editorial advisor. My work focuses on how voice, story, memory, and institutional context shape what cultural institutions communicate, preserve, and make legible to the audiences they serve.

I’m a graduate of Wellesley College, where I studied political science with a minor in economics. Over my 20+ year career, I’ve profiled recognized scholars, political figures, cultural icons, and business leaders, and I’ve written cultural profiles for multinational corporate blogs and industry publications.

My graduate education is in corporate communications and institutional change. I earned a master’s degree in corporate communications at Georgetown University with a specialization in change management communications, and I’m completing a doctorate at USC focused on how institutional narratives shape stakeholder experience. 

That academic foundation strengthens my ability to develop editorial assets, grant narratives, profiles, and funding documents that carry institutional meaning with clarity and care.

This boutique practice exists because cultural institutions often need more than visibility or strong writing. They need editorial advisory work that helps grant narratives, funding documents, profiles, place-based stories, reports, campaign materials, and public-facing institutional assets carry voice, memory, evidence, public value, and meaning with clarity.

My approach is grounded in over 20 years of editorial advisory, journalism, cultural reporting, research, and institutional writing. 

That includes shaping public understanding and participation for a major cultural arts event through targeted publicity and audience-aware language, helping the event earn the most media attention in its then seven-year history and significantly increasing engagement. 

I’ve also conducted a communications assessment for a large regional religious institution to identify where internal language, public messaging, and stakeholder experience needed clearer connection during a period of change. 

I co-led digital communications for a women’s leadership and community service organization’s annual fundraising event, strengthening message clarity in ways that helped generate the most funds raised in the event’s seventeen-year history.

These are examples of the editorial, cultural, and communications work that informs this practice—work designed to help mission-driven institutions communicate with credibility when complexity is high and the stakes are real.

What I Can Offer

My editorial advisory work supports established, mission-driven cultural institutions with grant narratives, funding documents, profiles, place-based stories, reports, campaign materials, and public-facing institutional assets that need to carry meaning, evidence, institutional voice, and audience understanding during periods of growth, transition, fundraising pressure, or public attention.

My journalism work delivers rigorously sourced profiles and place-based reporting that help readers understand how lived experience, history, and place shape public memory. I also partner with managing editors at respected mainstream and niche publications, including those at educational institutions, on editorial strategy and structure so editorial assets meet editorial objectives, serve sophisticated audiences, and hold together with clarity and intent.

If your cultural institution, funding partner, or commissioning organization needs editorial advisory support for grant narratives, funding documents, profiles, place-based stories, public-facing materials, or related editorial assets, contact me with a brief description of the project, audience, source material, review process, timeline, and intended use.

I’ll respond in writing before we determine whether a conversation is the right next step.