Writing Samples

THINGS I WRITE: profile pieces // communication plans (writing about writing) // blog posts // grant applications (totaling nearly $1 million awarded) // travel features & odes to wanderlust // press releases (if you make me) // website content // And more, just ask.

Vancouver USA Travel Magazine

Published annually, the Vancouver USA Travel magazine reaches an audience of 165,000 travelers throughout the Northwest. I’ve wrote the lead stories and edited content for five editions of the magazine. MORE HERE.

Travel Portland Media Kit

Distilling a city as vibrant as Portland into written form requires cutting through clouds of clutter while not missing the messy details that make it special. I led the writing and editing of this Travel Portland media kit for use with regional and national media. MORE HERE.

NW Crimson & Gray Magazine

The research work of students and faculty is too often relegated to dusty shelves and academic archives with digital paywalls. Taking the excitement of this research and making it accessible for an everyday audience, I wrote feature stories for Washington State University’s NW Crimson & Gray Magazine. MORE HERE.

Columbia Land Trust Style Guide

The ubiquitous corporate style guide gets a bad reputation for limiting the capabilities of employees and dating an organization’s brand. A good style guide should evolve and grow with the organization, requiring frequent updating to ensure it achieves its purpose. This sample style guide was produced for the Columbia Land Trust. MORE HERE.

Vancouver Stories

Blogs increasingly function as a fun, accessible way to bring a brand’s primary voice to a more personal level, interfacing directly with the consumer. With a heavy emphasis on food, drink, and entertainment, I have contributed frequently to the Vancouver Stories blog in addition to editing dozens of posts. MORE HERE

Identity Among Numbers Project

This wide-ranging multimedia project utilizes videos, interviews, data sets, and profiles to tackle systemic challenges faced by undocumented immigrants at the college level. Although chronicled over a decade ago in the nascent era of internet blogging, the stories captured here prove even more relevant in today’s polarized political climate. MORE HERE.