As an experienced communications and marketing professional and freelance writer, I've helped businesses and organizations tell their stories for more than 20 years.In 2012, I began consulting and full-time freelance work, providing strategic public relations and marketing, writing, editing, and social media support to small businesses and nonprofit organizations, as well as corporate communications and marketing departments seeking to supplement their staff. I've worked with clients in financial services, healthcare, social services, tourism and multi-family housing.As a writer, my work has been published in the Pensacola News Journal, Pensacola Today, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Newsweek, Birmingham Magazine, Lakeland (Fla.) Ledger, UAB Magazine, and UWF Connection. Previously, I spent 13 years in corporate communications and marketing roles for Birmingham, Alabama-based Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE: RF), a Fortune 500 banking and financial services company.