Member since June 2024
I believe everyone has a story worth telling and that belief has been the driving force behind a 15-year career in journalism, television, media and education.
In my work, I help established professionals, entrepreneurs and executives amplify their impact by empowering their voices through public relations strategy and implementation, tailored media training, and branded media presence coaching designed to improve their communications skills and media presence across channels and platforms.
My passion is telling the story of your passion and helping you translate the things that you care most about into a language that is easy for people to understand. The better you can communicate your passion, the more you can share it with the world!
My career is one based on the art of the pivot – pivoting careers, pivoting life goals, teaching people how to pivot away from difficult questions during media interviews – whenever I look at a point in my life where everything changed, it's all because of the art of the pivot.
I pursued a career in journalism as aggressively as one could – internships every summer and during the school year, traveling abroad to work for the Associated Press London Bureau, working 4 a.m. shifts at a local TV station and afternoons at a local newspaper – until I realized it was time to pivot. That fateful moment came during one such shift at the TV station where a young child had been struck and killed by a car while walking in a crosswalk. The station's reporter covering the story went to the home of the child's mother, stuck a microphone in her face as she opened the door and asked, "How do you feel?"
In that moment I knew something had to change. I could no longer participate in the "if it bleeds, it leads" culture of local news. I'd have to find a different way of pursuing my passion of storytelling. Thus, I embarked on the journey to become a founder of WordSmith Media.
WordSmith Media was born out of a desire to tell stories in an effective manner, highlighting the incredible work of female powerhouses – from CEOs to creatives to data champions to super mom – and helping them share their work with the world.
After working in news media for nearly a decade, I realized that I wanted to step away from a world where "if it bleeds, it leads" and focus on telling stories about the people who are putting good out into the world. This led me to incredible opportunities telling stories about Ivy League researchers conducting groundbreaking research, music professors who discovered long-lost tapes created by a famous musician and the people who made the Covid-19 vaccine possible.
The world of higher education communications showed me there is a world beyond the stories of death and destruction we often consume, so I decided to found WordSmith Media to share those positive stories and celebrate the people who are doing truly good things.
My career is one based on the art of the pivot – pivoting careers, pivoting life goals, teaching people how to pivot away from difficult questions during media interviews – whenever I look at a point in my life where everything changed, it's all because of the art of the pivot.
I pursued a career in journalism as aggressively as one could – internships every summer and during the school year, traveling abroad to work for the Associated Press London Bureau, working 4 a.m. shifts at a local TV station and afternoons at a local newspaper – until I realized it was time to pivot. That fateful moment came during one such shift at the TV station where a young child had been struck and killed by a car while walking in a crosswalk. The station's reporter covering the story went to the home of the child's mother, stuck a microphone in her face as she opened the door and asked, "How do you feel?"
In that moment I knew something had to change. I could no longer participate in the "if it bleeds, it leads" culture of local news. I'd have to find a different way of pursuing my passion of storytelling. Thus, I embarked on the journey to become a founder of WordSmith Media.
WordSmith Media was born out of a desire to tell stories in an effective manner, highlighting the incredible work of female powerhouses – from CEOs to creatives to data champions to super mom – and helping them share their work with the world.
After working in news media for nearly a decade, I realized that I wanted to step away from a world where "if it bleeds, it leads" and focus on telling stories about the people who are putting good out into the world. This led me to incredible opportunities telling stories about Ivy League researchers conducting groundbreaking research, music professors who discovered long-lost tapes created by a famous musician and the people who made the Covid-19 vaccine possible.
The world of higher education communications showed me there is a world beyond the stories of death and destruction we often consume, so I decided to found WordSmith Media to share those positive stories and celebrate the people who are doing truly good things.