Bio
I was born and raised on a small island off the coast of Savannah, Georgia. After graduating high school, I lived in Athens for nearly a decade as I attended both college and law school at the University of Georgia. After practicing law for a few years, I knew it wasn’t for me. I transitioned to copywriting and never looked back.
Since then, I’ve worked across very different environments: a large children’s healthcare system, a fast-moving SaaS startup where I was an early employee helping shape messaging through multiple funding stages, and freelance engagements with major retailers, professional sports teams, and civic tech agencies. Across each setting — corporate, startup, and contract — my focus has remained the same: clarity.
I shine at making complicated concepts clear and easy to understand. From technical case studies to engaging blog posts, UX copy, or even a single perfectly crafted sentence, I focus on helping people grasp ideas quickly and intuitively. Clarity is at the heart of everything I do, combining strategy, empathy, and careful attention to how people read, use, and interact with content.
A huge passion in my life has always been music, and in college I was first a disc jockey and later programming director at WUOG 90.5. In Atlanta, I spent four years on the board of directors of Girls Rock Camp Atlanta, a week-long summer camp where girls pick up guitars and drumsticks and form a band.
Some of my interests:
•Culinary history – From making a vintage hardtack recipe and sharing it with my book club to learning about the hidden history of tomatoes, I’m always reading books about food and how it’s affected people throughout the centuries.
•Trivia – I have a weird knack for remembering wars, presidents, ʼ80’s songs, and other bits of useless information. There was a time in my younger days that I never had to pay for beer or hot wings in restaurants in Atlanta because we always won pub trivia house cash.
•Star Wars – Seriously, my knowledge of Star Wars has been known to scare 13-year-old nerds. I placed in the top ten at Dragon Con Star Wars trivia in 2018 and the certificate is still above my desk.
•My delightfully skittish, green-eyed beauty of a gray cat, Goose
•Collecting guitars – I have a blonde Mexican-made Fender Tele (because I love Bruce Springsteen) and an Epiphone SG Standard (because I love Carrie Brownstein). I have a few others, but nothing fancy.
Hugo, Girl! podcast
For half a decade, my best friends and I have been hosting a podcast called Hugo, Girl!, which started out as a punny joke and turned into a monthly project that has us reading all of the Hugo Award-winning sci-fi novels from a feminist perspective. We’ve been nominated several times for a Hugo Award ourselves in the category of Best Fancast, and we even won in 2023.
My gameshow side hustle
I got to achieve a life-long dream of appearing on Jeopardy! in 2019, winning nearly $30K over two games. I was lucky enough to meet Alex Trebek, and he’s just a cool as you think he is.
After appearing on Jeopardy!, I started making the rounds at other game shows, including Person Place or Thing (skip to 57:31), 25 Words or Less, and The Flip Side. I wasn’t nearly as successful at those, hilariously enough, but I still love puzzles and meeting new people.