My Work
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Fourteen years of turning complex ideas into stories people actually read. From entertainment studios to Fortune 500 enterprise content to national editorial platforms — here's what that looks like.
Published Editorial Voice
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The work that proves I'm a writer — not just someone who writes for companies. National platforms, my own byline, and the voice that everything else is built on.
Published | Education Week
I Lived Off School Lunches as a Kid. Here's How to Make the Program Better
A national education publication asked me to write about school lunch reform. I could have written policy analysis. Instead I wrote about growing up in Watts eating moldy pizza from trash bags and counting down to meals at homeless shelters — and then connected that lived experience to federal policy recommendations. That's what makes advocacy writing land.
Read on Education Week →
Radio | NPR / 89.3 KPCC
How Educators Can Help Homeless and Foster Youth Overcome Instability
Live radio commentary on Take Two with Deepa Fernandes. I spoke about the systemic barriers foster youth face in education — frequent home moves, undertrained teachers, and the critical gap between safety and feeling seen. Proof that the editorial voice works across formats, not just on the page.
Listen on KPCC →
Video | PBS SoCal
American Graduate: Stories of Champions
Featured in PBS SoCal's American Graduate initiative — a program spotlighting mentors and champions in education. I talked about how my mentors taught me patience, consistency, and authenticity, and how education became my safe space in a system that didn't always feel safe.
Watch on PBS →
Film | Written, Produced & Performed
Not Your Statistic
A spoken word documentary I wrote, produced, and performed for PBS SoCal's Fostering Change initiative. Proof that I don't just write for pages — I write for screens, stages, and audiences who need to feel something before they'll believe something.
Watch on YouTube →
Personal Essay
What Being Homeless Taught Me About Education, Resilience, and Achievement
The journey from sleeping in a car with 3% battery and no charger to earning two master's degrees — told through the details that defined each chapter. This essay is the lived experience behind every piece of content I create about people navigating systems that weren't designed for them.
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Personal Essay | Human Parts
Debugging My Childhood
Published in Medium's curated Human Parts publication. "Before code, there were pencils." A memoir essay tracing the line from a childhood in foster care to a career in tech — written with the kind of structural craft that earned placement in one of Medium's most selective editorial collections.
Read on Human Parts →
Career Content | Her Agenda
How Millennial Women Can Successfully Make a Career Pivot
Interview-based career advice for a professional women's platform. I conducted the interview, structured the framework, and wrote a piece that balanced practical career guidance with voice and personality — the same skill set that drives enterprise thought leadership, just for a different audience.
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Framework | Her Agenda
The Key Differences Between an Advocate, Mentor, and Sponsor
Three concepts most professionals conflate, broken down into a clear framework. This is creative translation applied to career development — taking a nuanced professional concept and making it immediately usable. The same skill, different subject matter.
Read on Her Agenda →
Customer Stories
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Video scripts, and customer stories created for a Fortune 500 learning technology company serving 75M+ users. Each piece started with subject matter expert recordings and transcripts — my job was to find the narrative hook inside the technical implementation and make it a story worth telling.
Case Study | Entertainment
Encore: Employee Learning at Center Stage
An entertainment company investing in workforce learning sounds straightforward — until you're in the transcripts and realize the real story is about how employees in a high-turnover industry found a reason to stay. I built the narrative around retention through engagement, not features through bullet points.
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Case Study | Construction
Simpson Strong-Tie: Cementing a Legacy of Talent Growth
A construction industry leader needed to tell the story of leadership training and internal mobility — but the transcripts were full of HR jargon that would lose every reader outside the department. I translated the technical outcomes into a talent growth narrative that sales teams could actually use in enterprise conversations.
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Case Study | Higher Education
Penn State: Quest for Top-Tier Talent Empowerment
Institutional-scale workforce development at a university that serves tens of thousands of employees. I worked across customer success and marketing teams to capture measurable impact and translate an implementation story into a narrative about empowering people — not deploying software.
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Video Script + Case Study | Aviation
Spirit Airlines: Charting a New Course in Learning
This one required two formats — a video script and a written case study — to tell the story of an AI-powered workforce training transformation at a major airline. I partnered with the video production team on script and pacing, then developed the companion written narrative. The challenge was making AI-powered learning feel human. The story was about the people who learned differently because of it.
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Case Study | Public Sector
Chesterfield County: A Tale of Workforce Transformation
Government workforce transformation — a topic that can easily read like a compliance document. The challenge was making a public sector digital training rollout feel like a story about county employees gaining new capabilities, not a story about software procurement. I positioned the ROI in human terms so it could drive enterprise sales conversations outside the public sector.
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Case Study | Manufacturing
Porcher Industries: Weaving a Culture of Growth
A global manufacturing company with a workforce development story buried under technical language and internal metrics. I pulled the human thread out of the data — the story wasn't about training completion rates, it was about a culture shift where employees started seeing internal mobility as a real path, not a corporate talking point. I captured the success metrics and positioned them for enterprise content marketing.
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Strategic Content & Industry Analysis
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Articles, frameworks, and industry analysis created for a Fortune 500 learning technology company. Each piece required translating workforce research, trend data, and technical concepts into clear strategic content that HR leaders would actually use — not just bookmark.
Industry Analysis | Product Positioning
The Real Deal: What the Opportunity Marketplace Isn't
Every competitor was saying the same thing. The brand needed to cut through the noise by saying what the product wasn't — an unconventional move in enterprise marketing. I wrote a data-driven analysis that positioned the company as the honest voice in a market full of hype, differentiating through candor instead of more claims.
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Strategic Framework | Talent Mobility
Re-thinking Employee Development to Fuel Talent Mobility
The topic — reimagining workforce development for modern enterprise — had been written about by everyone. The challenge was finding a fresh angle. I built the piece around a structural argument: that the old development model was broken not because it lacked tools, but because it lacked imagination. That reframe made the content shareable and gave it long-term organic visibility.
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Strategic Content | Economic Strategy
Empowering Your People From Within During a Hiring Freeze
Timely content for a moment when every HR leader was panicking about budget cuts. The piece needed to acknowledge the pain without adding to it — and then offer something genuinely actionable, not just aspirational. I wrote it as a practical framework that made internal development feel like a strategic move, not a consolation prize.
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Strategic Content | Career Development
Accelerating Career Growth: 3 Things Your Organization Needs to Know
Listicle format with real substance underneath — the challenge was making "three things" feel like a strategic framework, not clickbait. I built each section around actionable steps backed by research data, structured so an HR leader could present the findings directly to their leadership team.
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Product & Technical Translation
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Enterprise product content where the challenge wasn't knowing the technology — it was making a buyer care about it. Each piece required taking engineering language and turning it into a value proposition a non-technical decision-maker would act on.
Datasheet | AI & Skills
Skills Intelligence & AI-Powered Learning
The product used machine learning to map employee skills to learning content. The engineering team described it in engineering language. My job was to translate those capabilities into clear messaging that made an HR director — not a data scientist — understand why it mattered for their team.
Created for Fortune 500 Learning Technology Company
Datasheet | Platform
Workforce Agility Platform
A multi-product enterprise suite that needed to feel like one thing, not seven. I developed the unified positioning — collapsing learning, performance, recruiting, and analytics into a single value proposition that an executive buyer could grasp in one read.
Created for Fortune 500 Learning Technology Company
Landing Page | Product
Learning Management System (LMS)
The flagship product landing page — the page enterprise buyers land on when they're evaluating the platform. I wrote conversion-focused copy that walked a prospect through the product's value without drowning them in features, structured for both the buyer journey and organic search visibility.
Created for Fortune 500 Learning Technology Company
Let's Talk
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I'm currently exploring full-time content strategy and copywriting opportunities — remote preferred. If my work resonates, I'd love to hear from you.
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