Right now, I’m freelancing. It’s been a real blast because I’ve been able to work for all kinds of agencies, on a huge range of work, and in several different roles. The agencies: Instrument (Portland, Oregon), Shinebox (Minneapolis), Fellow (Minneapolis), and Survey Monkey in-house. The clients: Google, Microsoft, Oura, Uber, Amazon, Pinterest, Greenhouse, AG1, Edwards Lifesciences, Cencora, and others. The work: Oh golly, really everything from scriptwriting to blog posts, to interviewing people, to social media, to emails. Everything, everything, everything. It has been exhausting and amazing.

From 2020 to 2023, I worked for WhoCo, a fantastic start-up in Santa Monica. We built a super cool hiring platform to help companies write job descriptions, conduct interviews, and onboard new employees based on the Big Five Personality traits. The creative team was tiny compared to all the other places I worked, which meant I did all the writing and editing, from brand identity to UX microcopy. The best part about this job was that I really believed in what we were doing. The work changed me! And that says a lot.

From 2017 to 2020, I wrote for Nelson Cash in Portland, Oregon. A good friend of mine alerted me to the vacancy, and I leaped at the chance to inch through the wintry mountain passes of Montana in a Uhaul. Towing a car. With a cat. In the dark.

My clients included Google Fiber, Mercari, The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, FiftyThree, and The Wild. Nelson Cash is where I learned a ton about digital media. Everyone was brilliant! The agency was small, so everyone wore many hats—and the egos were small, so no one minded lane-overstep. So, I learned tons about UX and art direction. What a thrill.

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Before that, I was working for a teeny-tiny company called Synthetic Kit. We were two developers and two managers (I was one of the managers, but I could totally hold my own with a scrap of code or a database, babe). Every time we'd need some copy, I'd just write it, and then we'd get the client to approve it, because that would take less time than waiting for the client to do it. Highlights: Concepting and writing scripts for a cartoon character who taught HealthPartners members about preventative health; calling myself a copywriter for the first time.

Before that, I managed a health club. This was when I really picked up steam as a writer. Whenever we needed to send a memo to the employees, the owners would give me notes and I would weave them into comedy gold. Eventually they started sending out monthly emails to members, and they'd have me write those, too. Highlights: People telling me that they looked forward to reading what they typically classified as spam; my bitchin' bod because of the free spin classes.

Before that, I worked as the Audience Advocate at the Walker Art Center. I did all of the audience research, including authoring, administering and analyzing surveys; timing and tracking studies; and focus groups. Highlights: Every day I would pass through the galleries on my way to lunch, and I'd walk past this beauty; meeting almost all of my dearest friends for life at the Walker; partying like total hellions.

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Before that, I was in school. I earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history from the University of Evansville in Indiana and a Master of Arts degree in museum studies from Leicester University in England. Highlights: Living in England, obvs. And writing a really cool dissertation about the Guerrilla Girls, called Guerrillas in Our Midst.

And before that, I was a little kid. I was constantly drawing and writing stories and making crap. My parents' attic is full of weird bits and pieces. Highlights: A feminist comic strip about how it isn't fair that women have to shave their legs; a recipe for a cheese and crackers sandwich with the cheese on the outside and the crackers in the middle.