I'm a former-daily-news-reporter-turned-freelance writer and organizational communications-professional for nationally recognized organizations, and a college writing instructor. My reporting and writing has appeared in The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, NextAvenue.org (a PBS-affiliate 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 awards, including from the International Association of Business Communicators, the Public Relations Society of America, Independent Publisher Book Awards, and industry trade publications Ragan Communications and PR News.
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 internationally competitive, then one-year Kiplinger Mid-Career Program in Public Affairs Reporting endowed by the Kiplinger financial media family. I now teach in the Communication Department of the University of Maryland, College Park.