I started as a reporter. Not a communications professional with a journalism minor — an actual reporter, filing stories for regional papers and magazines across Virginia and Georgia, learning fast that clarity and honesty were the only tools you had.

Fourteen years later, I lead communications strategy for healthcare, public health, and technology organizations. I've written talking points for senior CDC leadership during an mPox outbreak. I've helped a physician group build a media presence from scratch, generating an average of 1,991 media pickups per press release. I've ghostwritten thought leadership for health system executives that earned thousands of engagements on LinkedIn, and launched newsletters that reached 50,000 inboxes at a 46% open rate. The skills are the same as when I was a reporter. Who is this for? What do they actually need to hear? What's the most specific, honest way to say it?

I've also kept writing for myself. My bylined essays in HuffPost and SheKnows cover subjects I've lived — the invisible expectations placed on fathers, reproductive autonomy, what it means to lose and reclaim control over your own body. That writing and my professional work aren't separate. They come from the same conviction: that clarity is a form of respect, and that the right story, told well, can shift how people see something.

I'm based in Atlanta, where I live with my husband and our three sons.