I’m a communications consultant, writer, and community builder in New York City. I love working with entrepreneurs and leaders to start conversations about their work and help them attract the people who want what they’ve got. I specialize in media strategy, too, helping growing companies get media coverage in publications like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, NPR, and even once, Perez Hilton.

I started my career as a writer, writing about women’s issues, books, politics, and entrepreneurship for publications like Fast Company, the Economist, USA Today, Newsday, the Christian Science Monitor, the Huffington Post, and Ideas by We, the online magazine published by WeWork. I pivoted into entrepreneurship in my mid-twenties: I love the process of building something that didn’t exist before. I feel energized working with people who look around the world and ask, “What challenges am I interested in solving? Where do I see the opportunity to solve this in a really helpful way?” I love working with entrepreneurs, business owners, and startup founders because I think the idea of starting something new is inherently optimistic. No one launches a new venture or a company because they have mixed feelings about whether it will work. People launch things because they’re curious and passionate and confident that they have uncovered something really special and that something big is in store. I describe myself as being selectively but wildly excitable.

I’m crushing on Danielle Laporte, the thought leader and business writer who wrote The Fire Starter Sessions, a wonderful, soulful book about creating a passionate, fiery life. In the book, she asks the reader to explore, “How do you want to feel?” She argues that we have goal-setting backwards. We set goals because we think that accomplishing “x” will make us feel a certain way. So often, reaching that goal doesn’t make us feel the way we thought reaching the goal would make us feel —– this is arguably why there are so many depressed doctors and lawyers and movie stars. We could save ourselves a lot of grief, and striving, and student loan debt, if first, we got really clear on how we wanted to feel and then we set goals that would be more likely to make us feel the way we want to feel. I try to re-read The Fire Starter Sessions at least once a year for a tune-up and to see if anything has changed, in terms of how I want to feel!

You’ll never find me without stray threads all over me. I have been sewing casually for a few years —– I spent the pandemic listening to podcasts and stress-sewing homemade masks —– but I recently started taking sewing classes where I learned to sew from a pattern. I’m obsessed now. Sewing is like alchemy, where you take all these pattern pieces that do not look like they go together. You follow the directions and trust that the pattern-maker knows what they’re talking about. Often, at the very last step, you turn the garment inside-out, and it’s a transformation! You have a dress! With pockets!