I'm a former-daily-news-reporter-turned-organizational communications-professional (currently for a well-known global philanthropy), university communications and writing instructor, and freelance writer. My reporting and writing has appeared in The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, NextAvenue.org (a PBS-affiliated news and information site), the New Orleans Times-Picayune, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, CEO World, Forbes.com and BusinessInsider.com. My work has garnered multiple national and regional awards, including from the International Association of Business Communicators, the Public Relations Society of America, Independent Publisher Book Awards, industry trade publications Ragan Communications and PR News, the Florida Press Club, the Associated Press and the New Orleans Press Club.
In addition, I'm the author of the nationally award-winning, commercially published book, Hell and High Water: The Battle to Save the New Orleans Times-Picayune. I've also worked as an adjunct college instructor in Louisiana, Ohio and Nevada, and currently hold an adjunct appointment in the Communication Department at the University of Maryland, College Park.
I hold bachelor's and graduate degrees from Northwestern University, and a second graduate degree from The Ohio State University, where I was a fellow in the then one-year Kiplinger Mid-Career Program in Public Affairs Reporting endowed by the Kiplinger financial media family.