I'm an Oakland, Calif.-based writer hailing from Toronto, Canada, which is to say I'm really, really nice. Keanu, The Weeknd and, yes, even Bieber are amazing and I won’t hear otherwise.

I was part of the speechwriting team for the 2024 Democratic National Convention and have worked with executives at HubSpot, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, CNN, Girls Who Code, and others. In 2019, I co-wrote a TED Talk that garnered more than two million views in its first week and helped my client win a MacArthur “genius” award. As a former journalist, I wrote for The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and others. Soon after I profiled the head of a major nurses' union, she was named to Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020. I'm pretty sure that makes me an influencer.

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I hold a Master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where I studied economic and political development with a minor in international media and communications. While there, I served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Affairs, the first academic journal of its kind. My writing has been recognized by the Professional Speechwriters Association, the Los Angeles Review/Red Hen Press, the San Francisco Press Club, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Milwaukee Press Club.