I’m a writer, editor, content strategist, educator, and community builder living between Brooklyn, New York and California’s Mojave Desert. For companies I bring strategic execution and creative intelligence to complex projects across industries. I deliver strategy, structure, and focus to transform ambiguity into clarity, serving as a trusted cross-functional partner to drive scalable, repeatable, and long-term value to businesses. As an empathetic and energetic leader, I foster trust, elevate team culture, and build an authentic community to ensure team members can do their best work and feel a part of something meaningful.

As a writer, editor, and educator I create space for people to reflect on their own experiences and inspire them to realize an empowered vision for their lives and ideas. I write nonfiction essays and stories that fuse my lived experience with critical thought and feminist cultural analysis. I’m the author of Promote Your Book and the Promote Your Book Workshop, hands-on guides to book marketing, Riot Woman, a collection of feminist essays that take a celebratory but critical look at the Riot Grrrl movement, and Quit Your Day Job and Quit Your Day Job Workbook, practical field guides for starting a creative business. I wrote these books because I believe that when people are able to actualize their creative goals our culture as a whole becomes more robust and sustainable.

I am a versatile brand, content marketing, and community leader with 20+ years of experience driving strategic execution and creative intelligence for high-growth companies across technology, healthcare, HR tech, legal, education, employee benefits, and the arts. I bring passion, grit, critical analysis, and empathy to my work. Most recently Lively I built a full-funnel content strategy for B2B, B2C, and enterprise audiences. I formerly served as Senior Manager for Content Strategy and Copywriting for Axiom Legal Solutions and previously was the Managing Editor for All Hands, a publication about life at work from Managed by Q. At the Brooklyn Museum I designed public programming thousands of visitors, lead business planning workshops for artists and creatives across the United States with the New York Foundation for the Arts, and launched and grew a global ambassador program for 3D printing startup Shapeways.  

I hold an MFA in creative nonfiction from CUNY Queens College, as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Cultural Studies from Eugene Lang College and a Masters in Public Administration from Baruch College.

I’m also a musician and have a long history of playing in DIY, feminist punk and indie rock bands. I currently play bass in a bank called Skirting.

Want to work together? I’d love to connect with you.