Photo by Dan Dimmock/Unsplash
Click HERE for writing samples
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Former-daily-news-reporter-turned-organizational communications-professional (currently for a well-known global policy nonprofit), college instructor and freelance writer.
My reporting and writing have appeared in national and regional news outlets, including The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, NextAvenue.org (PBS-affiliated news and information site), New Orleans Times-Picayune, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Columbia Journalism Review and Forbes.com.
Winner of multiple national and regional awards, including from the International Association of Business Communicators, the Public Relations Society of America and the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Author of Hell and High Water: The Battle to Save the New Orleans Times-Picayune, a nationally award-winning, commercially published book.
Adjunct lecturer at the University of Maryland, College Park. Past adjunct at colleges and universities in Louisiana, Ohio and Nevada.
EDUCATION
B.S. and M.S., Northwestern University, journalism and integrated marketing communications, respectively
M.S., The Ohio State University, journalism. Fellow, then one-year Kiplinger Mid-Career Program in Public Affairs Reporting endowed by the Kiplinger financial media family.
PERSONAL
Wife, mother, political junkie, former NCAA Division I scholarship tennis player-turned-pickleball player. Cyclical cyclist. Alabama-raised, Midwest-educated, Mid-Atlantic resident. Lived in 11 states, visited 14 (and counting) countries. New Orleanian and Chicagoan forever.