Responsible for the overall creative health and success of Artemis Ward + leading the agency's content team.

As creative director, I partnered with our clients across industries and worked with our team members across disciplines to bring brand stories and experiences to life.

Little is a creative sandbox where stories and experiences come to life. Current projects include the feature-length documentary, Running in Circles, and the DC-based arts-and-culture experience, Little Salon.

Little Salon curates one-of-a-kind experiences designed to give DCers a non-pretentious dose of the amazing creative talent that surrounds them and to strengthen our city through the power of art.

As a creative director at 50,000feet, I oversaw the agency’s Washington, D.C. office and collaborated with clients nationwide from initial meeting through final delivery to identify opportunities, define solutions, and then craft the messages that turn those solutions into tangible results. My work built on extensive experience in communications, marketing, and narrative study, including stints in journalism, publishing, higher education, and design. Specializing in brand narrative, messaging, strategy, and video, I've worked across media for clients including Sony, MasterCard, Under Armour, SRAM, Haier, and the Gates Foundation.

Provided strategy and creative direction for many of Poccuo's clients and agency partners; handled production/oversight of all messaging, writing, and editing; managed social media initiatives for clients; contributed to daily account management; and guided new business development. Clients included the Atlantic Media Company, Brookings, Pew Charitable Trusts, Ogilvy PR, Food and Water Watch, The Immokalee Foundation, the Institute for Clinical Social Work, and the Catalyst Schools.

Worked with the university in various capacities, including: taught creative writing and composition courses; advised graduate and undergraduate students; contributed to re-branding and communications efforts for a new administrative unit; founded and administered Fifth Story Gallery for undergraduate art; founder and editor at Ninth Letter literature/arts magazine.

Collaborator with the Princeton Review on a project-by-project basis, writing education-based guidebooks, chapters, and web content. More than 30 editions authored.

Held a wide variety of writing responsibilities across campus, including: worked with a senior editor to revamp Dickinson Magazine (the college's alumni magazine) and compose the bulk of the magazine's content; traveled nationally/internationally to conduct interviews, research, etc.; wrote and designed parent newsletters; composed content for advertising, promotional materials, administrative correspondence, the college's website, etc.; and photography. Accolades include awards journalism awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and CASE.