Covering The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington, D.C., in 2010.
While in college, I worked for a stint as the head of the layout department on my school’s newspaper. The offices were in the basement, beneath an auditorium where bands sometimes came to play. There was no daylight to indicate the time of day. It was here that I led a small team of folks charged with making sure that the newspaper’s columns aligned in Adobe InDesign—down to the pica. The job started around 5pm and often wrapped at midnight or 1am. The essence of my job: precision under deadline, and, inevitably, fatigue.
I get better sleep these days, but the attention to detail hasn’t changed. I left full-time journalism in 2018, expanding into content marketing. I worked at an agency for just shy of three years, and then in-house for a year. In February 2023, I went full-time into freelancing. My work now bridges two large buckets: content marketing for brands and editorial work for publications.
Although born and raised in California, I’ve called Washington, D.C., home for over a decade. I hold a B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley.