About me

The common thread that unites my content design and UX strategy work—and what I consider to be my superpower—is connecting the dots: across goals and strategy, among agile and hybrid teams, and in the critical task of reconciling the bigger picture and the granular details.

The sheer variety of my work and life experiences to date provides multiple lenses that inform my writing and editing in content design, content strategy, and team leadership roles.

Simply put, I light up at the intersection of words and design. Earlier in my career, this meant where text and images combined for layout, whether in print or online. (Until that point, they’re not yet great copy or great design: How they unite in service to the user is what will make them great.)

Now it means having followed a more tech-informed user experience over to the product stack. Where the sooner we can light things up, the better.

When I’m not knee-deep in content design, I am a part-time professional musician and volunteer end-of-life doula. I'm also a proud member of NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) and Dancers Over 40.

EXPERIENCE

Indeed Inc., UX Content Designer, Indeed Hire, full-time remote: Apr 2022–May 2024 (position ended by company layoffs)

Forbes Media LLC / Forbes Advisor, Lead Editor, Banking; Assigning Editor, Banking and Personal Finance, full-time remote: Dec 2019–Mar 2022

Contently, Managing Editor and Content Strategist, contractor, full-time hybrid: Jan 2016–Feb 2020; contractor, part-time remote: 2020–2023

IMAGINE Communication (d/b/a), Principal | Senior Content Designer | Editor | Writer, full-time: Sep 2001–Dec 2010 and Jan 2014–Jan 2016; part-time: Dec 2010–Jan 2014 and Jan 2016–present

Guardian Life Insurance, Financial Representative, and Advisor, Park Avenue Securities LLC; interim Life Brokerage Manager, Dec 2010–Jan 2014

Winstar Communications, Director, Employee Communications, Sep 2000–Jul 2001 (position ended by corporate bankruptcy)

Deloitte Consulting, Global Manager, Internal Communications, Sep 1998–Sep 2000

[prior roles include HR/Benefits Communications Consultant; managed health care Senior Writer, Manager of Marketing Communications, National Accounts Manager, Contract/Proposal Analyst, and Technical Marketing Consultant; in the nonprofit sector: Executive Director, Very Special Arts CT, Graduate Intern—The Kennedy Center (Washington DC), and Assistant to the Director, Dept of Athletics, Yale University]

INDUSTRIES SERVED

• HR recruitment and staffing

• Financial service journalism

• Personal finance and banking

• Life, accident, and health insurance

• HR/workforce management SaaS

• Automotive

• Experience design

• Law firm document production

• Management consulting

• Telecommunications

• Managed health care

• Employee benefits consulting

• Nonprofit management

• Arts and higher education

Clients have included: ADP, BMW North America, Deloitte Consulting, ESI Design, Wachtell Lipton, Debevoise & Plimpton, Clifford Chance, NewYork-Presbyterian hospitals, Dell Technologies, Discover Credit Cards, First Horizon Bank, LegalZoom, The Hartford, Guardian Life, Prudential Financial, Aetna Health Plans, Polo Ralph Lauren, Timberland, and major labor unions.

EDUCATION

MBA, Yale University, Yale School of Management (Major: Marketing, minor: Organizational Dynamics)

MM, Yale University, Yale School of Music (Major: Singing). Belding Apprenticeship Award

BA cum laude, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Phi Beta Kappa, R-MWC Distinguished Scholar

Continuing education since 31 May 2024 layoff includes completing 35-hour PMP Certification prep course, plus online work in accessibility, generative AI, OOUX, and IxDF Human-Computer Interaction: The Foundations of UX Design