Writing

My Journey as a Writer

I’ve always been a writer, though not a creative one. My style always shifted to observational, writing incredibly dull journal entries as a child that read something like “Wake up. Eat breakfast. Go to school. Play. Homework. Dinner. Go to sleep.” I struggled through creative essay topics, feeling pained to get through pages of material.

I wanted to be efficient, and get to the point. It makes sense that news writing became my thing.

In college, I wrote for my school newspaper for four years, earning the assistant news editor title my junior year, and news editor my senior year. After school, I began work in marketing communications, focusing on external communications through social media, website and newsletter copy, and press releases.

After four years of full-time employment, I struck out on my own into the design and branding world as a business owner. I kept up writing in a different way - crafting brand strategies and marketing my own company. I’m continuing to do so, but am also returning to writing with a new perspective as a business owner.

Current Work

I’m interested in tackling a few topics I don’t see very often, all centering around workplace culture. Women in the workplace, the use of email and other communication technology - I’m passionate about researching and adding more perspective to these areas of history.

I’m currently working on an unnamed piece about the brokenness of email, and a longer series/book called The Workplace Wasn’t Made for You: A History of Women Working in America.

You can check out my current writing on my Medium blog.

Bylines

Sports Illustrated’s The Cauldron, A social media evaluation of the NBA Conference Finals’ teams