I design ways to tell stories that build community resilience.
My design mediums are social media, audio, digital stories, and events.
Currently
Oenoverse, Lightwell Survey, Domestique Wine, and more.
My newsletter FORM + FUNCTION connects people who live and work in the D.C. area to community events, put on by the city’s creative, independent organizers. People follow because they want to explore the city beyond the ever-present Embassy Nights.
Most recently
I’ve been busy building beloved series of pop-up food and wine events across D.C.
I partner with homegrown restaurants like The Dabney and Reveler’s Hour to produce and host sold-out takeovers that win 3x average nightly revenue bumps and introduces energetic, engaged diners to a new restaurant to call their own.
In a past life
I led the community engagement strategy at the fast-growing fine fast casual Indian restaurant, RASA.
I covered all things audience engagement at D.C.’s NPR affiliate station WAMU where my work earned a 2022 Webby Honor for the newsroom’s Instagram strategy.
I also managed the podcast station Full Service Radio from the LINE Hotel in D.C.
I engineered hundreds of podcast episodes and
And as a fun aside
I began my journey studying wine in 2021. Since then, I have earned Wine and Spirit Education Trust’s Level II Award in Wine and was accepted as a grantee to The Veraison Project and Wine Unify.
My big hypothesis
is that if we apply community health principles to content creation and social engagement, we can (1) inspire people to care for the future of their communities, and (2) build sustainable paths for joy, health and wellness, for everyone.
Contact me if you’d like to take part in my experiment.
Check out my experience here.
I’m currently taking on freelance opportunities. Do you need someone to build a social media campaign or produce an event?
Contact me
(btw, the portrait on my homepage is by a Baltimore-based photographer.)