Now: Exploring, cooking, hosting, playing board games, foraging, growing, hunting, reading. Also leading editorial and storytelling at Land O’Lakes, Inc.

Speaker: ANA, Digital Summit, Percolate, Social Media Breakfast and more.

Professionally: My career spans local news reporting, leading digital strategy in a major newsroom and building editorial and digital muscle at a Fortune 200 company. I’m energized by leading teams spanning different disciplines (and perspectives) to develop powerful storytelling. The more deeply rooted it is in purpose — and the people bringing it to life — the more it resonates with the audiences we care about.

The beauty of this work is that it’s always intertwined with other critical expertise: Public relations, media relations, executive/leadership, crisis, social media community management, content creation, employee communications and measurement/analytics (to name a few).

I’ve worked with some of the best marketing and PR agencies in the world to bring everything from SXSW activations to feature documentaries to life. It’s a privilege to have a wide and deep breadth of leadership and communications experience.

Some past achievements: A verified Twitter user. Newspaper web editor. Award-winning reporter. Holder of degrees in political science and journalism from the University of Minnesota.

Always: Thalassophobic and fairly provincial.

Contact me: On LinkedIn or email me (bottom of the page) to grab a coffee or swap favorite recipes. Or favorite wines. Or whiskies. Or your strategies on growing herbs indoors during the winter.