About ME

I'm an editor through and through. I designed a copyediting degree in the University of Texas' Humanities interdisciplinary field before joining the Austin Chronicle as a proofreader in 2009. I made the leap to digital when I joined the Daily Dot full-time in 2014. Never content to stop learning, I've imbued in each of my jobs an exploratory educational component, from learning HTML for posting on the Chronicle's blogs and teaching myself Python to better communicate with the Dot developers to studying the latest in audience and marketing best practices. As a full-time freelancer, I pride myself on being fast, flexible, and fun to work with.

In 2019, after a lifetime in Texas, I relocated to Raleigh, North Carolina. In my spare time, I love playing board games, curling, practicing aerial arts, and baking up a storm from the Smitten Kitchen archives. (I’ve maintained a food blog since 2010 called The Yeast I Can Do.)

ABOUT MY WORK

I am communicative: With a thesis on stasis theory and a career built around words, I unsurprisingly value clear and concise communication. It makes me both a compassionate manager and a stellar freelancer.

I am solutions-oriented: When a company needed to save money on T&E expenses during a conference but staffers were uncomfortable asking to crash with friends, I developed a program that facilitated the best of both worlds. It was a huge win for organizational health.

I am proactive: As an editor eager to help improve her website's CMS, I enrolled in self-directed Coursera classes to teach myself Python. I figured if the developers were making every effort to speak the language of the newsroom, the least I could do was meet them halfway.

I am curious and a lifelong learner: In case the Coursera work didn't give me away, I thrive learning new things. When manually keying film times for 19 Austin-area movie theaters, I kept my brain engaged by listening to podcasts like RadioLab. When I'm not working, I enjoy hobbies like baking and crocheting, which I learned by trial and error and a whole lot of YouTube.