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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