About Me

An award-winning journalist and narrative strategist, I’ve been telling stories as long as I could speak. I’ve spent my career learning how voice, story, and memory shape who is seen as credible, who is treated as legitimate, and what institutions choose to preserve.

I studied political science at Wellesley with a minor in economics, then became a professional journalist so I could share others’ narratives regularly. Over my nearly 30 year career, I’ve profiled recognized scholars, political figures, cultural icons, and business leaders, and I’ve written changemaker profiles for multinational corporate blogs and industry publications.

My formal training 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 (EdD) at USC where my research interrogates how the narratives institutions share shape access, legitimacy, and leadership outcomes. That research deepens the same reality my client work confronts: institutional stories do not simply describe values, they structure who is believed, who belongs, and what decisions become “reasonable” inside an institution.

This boutique practice exists because some stories do not get heard unless a reputable publication chooses to carry them, and because cultural institutions often need more than strong writing. They need narrative infrastructure: the deeper story architecture that keeps leadership language, public storytelling, and community trust coherent over time.

My approach is grounded in nearly three decades of institutional storytelling work that has always required narrative infrastructure thinking. That includes shaping public understanding and participation for a major cultural arts event through narrative framing and targeted publicity, 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 lived stakeholder experience had drifted out of coherence during a period of change. And I co-led digital communications strategy for a women’s leadership and community service organization’s annual fundraising event, strengthening narrative clarity in ways that helped generate the most funds raised in the event’s seventeen-year history. 

These are a few examples of the long arc of narrative strategy work I’ve led—work designed to help mission-driven institutions communicate with credibility when complexity is high and the stakes are real.

My narrative strategy consulting and storytelling advisory work supports established, mission-driven cultural institutions with stable leadership and operating capacity that want narrative integrity and operational coherence during periods of growth, transition, fundraising pressure, or public scrutiny.

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

If the solutions I can offer align with your requirements, contact me to schedule a complimentary, no-obligation 30–45 minute introductory phone call to discuss your initiative. We can also begin our conversation by email. Send a brief message with your questions about my practice or a short description of your initiative, and I’ll respond in writing before we decide whether it’s a fit and schedule a phone call.