At Tandemvines Media, I partner with clients to elevate their voices and make their stories shine.Strategic-storytelling highlights:• Alaska Airlines. Create and execute yearlong strategic communications plans for Alaska Air Cargo team. Writer/editor crafting storytelling for teams across the company. Projects include video-interview coaching, as well as producing blog posts, newsletters and editorial calendars.• "Cooking Ubuntu," Project Feast. Created and led a grant-funded project to produce a collection of recipes and narratives about the alumni and collaborators of the nonprofit, which trains refugee and immigrant cooks.Publishing-consulting highlights:• Publisher and co-editor of "The Woman in the Room: A Memoir," the story of pioneering Seattle architect L. Jane Hastings. Published 2023.• Consultant for Washington State Jewish Historical Society to update and republish two previously out-of-print books: "Family of Strangers: Building Jewish Communities in Washington State" and "Yesterday's Mavens, Today's Foodies."• Produced two books, print and Kindle editions, for Pharmagellan founder Frank David. • Book project editor and designer, Pike Place Market PDA: Partnered with the Preservation & Development Authority to create a visually rich digital book about Seattle's historic public market. • Designed and produced "An Air That Still Kills," honored as the 2016 iBook of the Year. The iBook includes source material behind the reporting by Pulitzer Prize-winner Andrew Schneider and David McCumber. Also produced in print and Kindle. Other work:• Developed and moderated virtual panel events: "Pike Place Market: Generations of Resilience," created for Historic Seattle (2021), and "Rooted in Resilience: Legacy Bars and Restaurants in San Francisco," created for San Francisco Heritage (2020).

I explore stories behind food as a way to learn about a place and the people who are dedicated to their craft. I love discovering how tastes and foods are shaped by history, immigration and the environment — and of course the personal stories of the hardworking people behind the counter, in the kitchen or in the field. The cooking and eating part of the research deepens the connection with the people and the place.My food-history writing has appeared in the Australian Financial Review, the Seattle Times and Alaska Airlines Magazine. My book, “Tables From the Rubble,” tells the stories of San Francisco restaurants that opened in the years after the 1906 earthquake, highlighting a few that remain to offer food, drinks and stories with direct links to the city’s past. “Tables From The Rubble” includes dozens of historic and contemporary photos, and is available in both multimedia and print editions. I have created several visually compelling events around "Tables From The Rubble," including the 2018 Alice Carey Ross Lecture for San Francisco Heritage, and "Taste of History" dinners at the Palace Hotel and Tallman Hotel.Links to "Tables From The Rubble" and other stories are in the “Publications” section below.

My job was to ensure that the Seattle Times’ journalism had a compelling, cohesive visual presence on all media platforms. I partnered with colleagues in the newsroom, product and IT departments to create showcases for news content, with a reach of more than 1.8 million Northwest readers every month at seattletimes.com and in print.Key accomplishments:Digital product development: I provided creative direction and partnered with editors on content strategy in the development of digital news products.• For a new iOS app released in 2016, I contributed design direction for the UX and product team, with a focus on news strategy needs.• In Feb. 2015 we launched a responsive design for seattletimes.com. I provided design direction and facilitated between stakeholders and our design partner, Mule Design. The project included a new WordPress-based CMS, and I captured content and workflow needs, writing user stories and acceptance criteria for tools and site-wide features.• In 2014, we launched an app for Windows mobile, produced in partnership with Microsoft. I led design strategy, focused on highlighting photojournalism, as part of a team that worked with developer Ratio. Microsoft named the result a “lighthouse app.” Editorial project management: I provided art direction and editorial project management for high-value projects. For book projects, I organized content teams and deliverables, created internal timelines, managed the editorial-production relationship with external partners, and contributed to the ROI assessment for projects. • “Hawk Heaven: The Road to the Seahawks’ First Super Bowl Victory” (Feb. 2014)• “Seattle Sketcher: An Illustrated Journal by Seattle Times Artist Gabriel Campanario” (Oct. 2014)Mission development: I led the newsroom visual teams in crafting a Visual Values Statement, laying out the standards that visual journalists are expected to uphold and articulating high-level requirements for how our content should be presented.

I was the advocate for the newsroom in The Seattle Times Company’s development of smartphone and tablet formats, acting as liaison between the senior editors and the company’s user-experience and technical experts on the mobile-development team. In addition, I led the team of photo editors that produced The Seattle Times' first digital book, "Pictures of the Year 2012," which I designed and optimized for the iPad. I was also the project manager for the newsroom's explanatory package of stories on ocean acidification, "Sea Change: The Pacific's Perilous Turn," published in September 2013. I coordinated the work from the writer, editors, photo editors, artists, designers and digital producers to meet ambitious print and digital publishing deadlines. In addition, I partnered with audience-engagement editors and marketing managers to create a social-media roll-out plan. The project won the Online News Association's award for explanatory reporting in September 2014, as well as five awards from the Society of News Design. See the project at seattletimes.com/seachange.

I led the development, art direction and production of the newsroom's highest-profile content projects, as well as managed a department of 14 print designers, print and digital graphic artists and illustrators. As a member of The Seattle Times' digital design-management team, I helped shape the visual design of the website and other digital content.Some notable accomplishments:• Project manager for "The Other Side of Mercy," a book that captured the investigative team's work telling the story behind the man who shot four police officers in Lakewood in 2009.• Judge for the international Society for News Design contest in 2009

I designed award-winning front pages and news projects, and was the project manager for special content. A highlight was coordinating the three-month project commemorating the Pike Place Market's centennial in 2007.

While at The Seattle Times, I was one of 19 journalists chosen from news organizations worldwide to spend a year focusing on a personalized study plan. I studied storytelling, acquiring skills I used to change the way stories are told visually at The Seattle Times. In one course -- the Graduate School of Business's How to Make Ideas Stick -- the professor incorporated part of my work into his curriculum