Work

• journalist •
• editor •
• copywriter •
• proofreader •
• fact-checker •

Balance

My first international travel assignment took me to a sleepover atop the tallest Mayan temple in Belize on the eve of the so-called Mayan Apocalypse. I haven’t been the same since — the leather-faced shaman who spat alcohol onto my head, blessing me by firelight as I knelt before him, may have had something to do with it.

Either way, I was changed. What followed was a career that I’d already started but never could have designed to unfold as it has: being welcomed by cultures around the world, building connections and sharing moments with strangers, and then telling those stories for National Geographic Traveler, Fortune, TIME, Yoga Journal, Sierra, Robb Report, the in-flight magazines on United and Delta airlines, Amtrak’s The National, and others.

I got here by way of a master’s degree in publishing and writing from Emerson College in Boston, undergrad studies in English and writing and editing from the UC system, and a whole lotta hustle.

Along the way, I’ve worked as an on-staff editor, textbook proofreader, magazine fact-checker, biomedical research communications assistant, all-around transcriptionist, and matchmaker 😘.

Life

• motorcycles •
• live music •
• hikes •
• watercolor •
• sunrises •