Portfolio
A curated portfolio of client work across nonprofit, executive, publishing, healthcare, service-based, and consumer brands. Client names are withheld for confidentiality, and the samples below are short, paraphrased composites that reflect the voice, strategy, and range of the original work.
Six industries
Grant proposals, donor appeals, and fundraising campaigns for humanitarian aid, literacy, and community support.
Lead and supporting writer on proposals funding refugee response, displacement support, and emergency nutrition programs across East Africa and the Horn. Mix of multi-year general operating asks and project-restricted funding for stabilization centers, outpatient nutrient therapy, and frontline staff capacity.
Drafted funding proposals for a small press focused on literacy and non-violent communication for marginalized youth. Built the case around early-childhood literacy data, audiobook and app expansion plans, and BIPOC literacy outcomes.
Subject-line through P.S. email appeals tied to active humanitarian crises. Short, direct, specific. The kind of ask that explains what one-hundred dollars actually buys and gets read on a phone in under ninety seconds.
Direct-mail copy across the calendar: Giving Tuesday postcards with match-challenge mechanics, tri-fold case-for-support pieces, year-end donor appeals, and acknowledgment letters that closed the loop after a gift landed. Built for envelope, mailbox, and kitchen counter — not just inbox.
Six-figure match campaigns built around a single named donor or board match. Wrote the email cadence, postcard, social copy, and stewardship follow-up — coordinated so every channel pointed to the same goal line on the same day.
Authored a reusable peer-to-peer fundraising template — mission framing, key messages, page setup, story prompts, and email scripts — that smaller chapters and volunteer fundraisers could plug into without starting from scratch.
Ghostwritten thought leadership, op-eds, and internal messaging for founders and senior leaders.
Ghosted essays and op-eds on disability advocacy, anti-racism, and cross-coalition organizing. Sustained editorial voice across a year of placements.
Lead writer on a Halo Award application for a refugee-housing partnership between a global hospitality platform and an international humanitarian nonprofit. Built the business case, the social impact case, and the storytelling spine inside a tight character-count format.
Staff-facing communications that asked colleagues to do something — sign on, contact elected officials, donate — in a tone that respected their time and made the ask easy to act on.
I think of my role as a big-thinker's best friend — more strategist than writer. I work with leaders whose missions outsize the page and whose calendars outpace the deadline. My job is to hand back their voice, their time, and a sharper version of the idea they started with.
— on the work
Long-form editorial, reporting, op-eds, and copyediting for publications and authors.
Researched, drafted, and placed a long-form opinion piece arguing that student debt forgiveness is a Black wealth issue. Built from policy data, Roosevelt Institute analysis, and a clear political argument.
Feature on the billion-dollar economy at the intersection of hip-hop, fast food, and celebrity restaurant ventures. Reporting plus argument — written for a publication's culture vertical.
Ghosted columns for a nonprofit executive director, including a widely shared MinnPost essay on solidarity between disability services and racial justice work in the year after George Floyd.
Full copyedit of a debut author's book — a five-chapter collection on grief, healing, self-love, and faith. Preserved the author's voice and rhythm while clearing the line edits, scripture references, and section pacing.
Plain-language advocacy writing and equity-focused content that is clear, careful, and human.
Supporter emails for a disability services organization — including action alerts urging elected officials to uphold federal commitments to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Three-minute, one-click letter-of-support flows.
Internal and external content honoring Native associates, heritage months, and cultural observances for a national Catholic health system. Wrote into the tension between institutional voice and honest history — without flattening either.
Long-form supporter content reframing healthcare as a right, not a privilege — built to move readers from sympathy to advocacy action without slipping into jargon.
Web, print, and campaign copy for service brands that need clear messaging across channels.
End-to-end communications for a year-long webinar series featuring leaders in disability, LGBTQIA+, and BIPOC outdoor recreation. Wrote the series concept, speaker bios, web landing pages, monthly email campaigns, and audience-targeting plans for each session.
Long-form content for financial services brands — articles, executive bylines, and customer-facing editorial. Translated technical and regulated subject matter into writing a member or client would actually finish reading.
Save-the-date pieces, program collateral, registration flows, run-of-show emails, and post-event follow-ups for service brands. Print and digital working together, not duplicating each other.
Website rewrites and voice guides for service-based brands whose old sites read like a credentials list. Replaced wall-of-text "about us" pages with copy that named the visitor's problem in their own words.
Email, launch, and brand voice copy for founder-led brands that need to sound distinct and human.
Social copy, RSVP flows, and on-site promo for a ten-year anniversary tasting event. Wrote the brand's voice the way the founders actually speak — playful, warm, never corporate.
Social and editorial copy for a design team's annual retrospective. Translated a portfolio of work into a story their followers wanted to scroll, not skim.
Standing copy support across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter for lifestyle brands — captions, launches, behind-the-scenes posts. The kind of writing that keeps a feed coherent week to week.