hella Californian. Born and raised in the suburbs of Vacaville, I grew up with fruit farms on well-worn backroads, San Francisco Giants games on the radio and believing summers are spent in hoodies at the beach. 

2. Never the girl to stay home, I’ve had mailboxes in South Carolina, Los Angeles, Oakland, NYC, Birmingham and now, Nashville.

3. Mornings are my jam. Sitting on my balcony with a cup of coffee after yoga and meditating? Yes, please. (Bonus points if French toast is involved.)

4. I moved to L.A. when I was 19 for acting and ended up graduating from the world’s largest improv and sketch comedy theatre, The Second City Hollywood.

5. At 23, I had an epiphany I wanted to go to college and work at a national magazine which led me to Mills College, the oldest women’s college in the West. There, I studied under the former Senior Editor of Mother Jones and snagged an English degree with a concentration in Creative Writing.

6. You can pick my laugh out of a crowd, and it’ll probably make you laugh too.

7. Working as an editor in my college newsroom, I realized I love helping writers improve and craft their stories.

8. After I cut my editorial teeth in the Bay Area, I moved to Birmingham for a year-long fellowship with Time Inc’s Cooking Light. I was hired out of my fellowship as the first dedicated Facebook Live segment producer for the entire company. As a one woman department, I managed 40+ live segments a month across the company portfolio and brought in award-winning culinary talent for my newly created Time Inc. Food Media Junket.

9. If there’s a rooftop and champagne, I’m in.

10. I co-created and co-hosted the internet sensation you probably missed, Babble & Nosh, about two gals sharing snacks and their favorite food stories.

11. For 3 seasons, I had a weekly podcast Babe Cave inspired by Virginia Woolfe’s A Room of One’s Own, and it became a place for dope women to connect and challenge what is acceptable. If you’re trying to figure out your story, oftentimes it helps hearing and understanding someone else’s.

12. I’m an active committee member and auction chair for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. What continues to grab my heart is Danny Thomas’ “impossible” dream of planting a hospital in the segregated South with the mission to “to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment” and the belief that “no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family's ability to pay”. To walk the halls of St. Jude is to know hope has never been more alive.

13. Currently, I’m a regular food writing columnist for DIYMFA.

14. As much as I love being on-camera, I thrive when given the reins behind the scenes. A gift of mine is to read between the lines of what my clients aren’t saying on the page to get at what they want to say. I like to bring out the tiny details in someone’s work that takes it from mediocre to “that ish feels so good”. 

We all have something unique to share with the world, something no one else can say quite like we can.

It’s time to trust the inner voice begging you to let your work be seen and shared by the souls who need it. You have a story that needs to be told — and I want to connect you to the very best version of it. Are you ready?