Real talk storytelling, with an idealistic streak
From the climate crisis to COVID-19 (and way too much else to list), it's kind of a hard time to be a human right now. My goal here is to point my little headlamp towards all the reasons to hope, and share some delight along the way.
But I'm not gonna sugarcoat things either. We all could use more space to voice the doubt and anxiety that's par for the course in uncertain times like these.
For more than 20 years, I've been working with words to tell stories about cool but also hard, complex stuff. While the subject line always changes, there's at least one common thread... I help make complicated ideas feel accessible and sound human.
And speaking of humans, I generally play well with them too, including at work. Some of my fave professional collaborations include:
When I'm away from my desk I'm either obsessing about air quality here in my beloved NorCal, nagging I mean playing with my kiddo and dog, or reading one of the dozen used books I probably just bought and have no room for.
Wherever I am, I'm always looking for inspiring new stories to discover and help tell. Cuz that's my story.
What's yours?
But I'm not gonna sugarcoat things either. We all could use more space to voice the doubt and anxiety that's par for the course in uncertain times like these.
For more than 20 years, I've been working with words to tell stories about cool but also hard, complex stuff. While the subject line always changes, there's at least one common thread... I help make complicated ideas feel accessible and sound human.
And speaking of humans, I generally play well with them too, including at work. Some of my fave professional collaborations include:
- Editing the Chicago editions of Disney's Ideal Bite and NBC's The Feast
- Serving as a regular contributor at Yale Climate Connections, focusing on solutions
- Co-producing a monthly radio segment busting "EcoMyths" for Chicago Public Media
- Ghostwriting a sizable chunk of an Al Gore book about climate activism
- Shaping stories with the over-achievers at Team Akrete, a woman-owned PR/marketing agency
- Spreading the word about cleantech and other mission-driven work with Inflection Point Agency
- Helping create environmental science curriculum in partnership with the National Wildlife Federation
- Making a ton of contributed copy fit for print for a women's interest magazine, a Cool Globes guidebook, and more
When I'm away from my desk I'm either obsessing about air quality here in my beloved NorCal, nagging I mean playing with my kiddo and dog, or reading one of the dozen used books I probably just bought and have no room for.
Wherever I am, I'm always looking for inspiring new stories to discover and help tell. Cuz that's my story.
What's yours?