I'm a former-daily-news-reporter-turned-freelance writer and organizational-communications-professional for nonprofit organizations. My writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, CEO World, Forbes.com, BusinessInsider.com and NextAvenue.org (a PBS-affiliated site). My work has garnered multiple national awards, including from the International Association of Business Communicators, the Public Relations Society of America, Independent Publisher Book Awards, and industry trade publications Ragan Communications and PR News.
I hold bachelor's and graduate degrees from Northwestern University, and a second graduate degree from The Ohio State University, where I was a fellow in the internationally competitive, then one-year Kiplinger Mid-Career Program in Public Affairs Reporting endowed by the Kiplinger financial media family.