About

Communications strategist, writer, and artist — currently directing strategic and digital communications for a national children's health nonprofit.

My work has run through most rooms where communication happens: a federal agency's press operation, congressional campaign war rooms, a Member of Parliament's constituency office, nonprofit strategy meetings, a university newsroom, and a startup's ad pipeline. The throughline is pattern — finding the structure in a policy debate, a message strategy, or a blank canvas, and making it visible to other people. The paintings and the campaign plans come from the same place.

Selected experience

• Director of Strategic & Digital Communications — One Chance to Grow Up (2025–present). Leading strategy, digital, and publications — including two published white papers on upstream youth prevention.
• Communications Associate — Congressional Budget Office (2023–25). Media relations and release coordination for major federal budget publications — like this Budget and Economic Outlook advisory. Also the era of the golden-hour walks home past the Capitol.
• Digital Content Creator / Social Media Manager — mobile app startup (2021–22). Ad creative, animation, and social for a coloring app — see the case study.
• Freelance graphic designer & meme maker (2018–23). Client graphics and internet-native content, including for the Unus Annus channel — a representative artifact. The tradition continues on Substack.
• University relations intern — Arcadia University (2019–20). Reported and wrote published news features for the university's site and newsletter.
• Parliamentary intern — House of Commons, UK Parliament (2019). Constituency casework and social video for the MP for Brent Central — during the same London year that produced To Metro-land! and The Sea is a Medium.
• Farm manager — suburban children's petting farm (2016–18). Pigs, goats, cows, a register, and a six-person team. Still the best training in communicating with any audience.

Education

• MA, Political Communication — American University (2022–24). Coursework in strategic communication, applied political writing, opinion writing, and campaign management — where the Senate campaign plan, delta-8 policy paper, talking points, PSA scripts, op-eds, and women in politics research were written.
• BA, Global Media & Political Communication — Arcadia University (2016–20). Media studies, film, video production, and senior research on digital fandom and internet economies.
• Study year in London — Goldsmiths, University of London (2018–19). British media, politics, and an independent study that became a book about the Metropolitan line.
• Digital Marketing Boot Camp — University of Denver (2021). Capstone: LocalYokle, a complete mock small-business website with brand, copy, and SEO strategy.

A full CV — with names, dates, and references — is available on request through the form below.

Elsewhere

• This Memes War on Substack — writing on memes, media, and politics.
• LinkedIn — the formal version.

Get in touch

For work inquiries, the full CV, commissions, or to tell me your best idea for a painting title: