Hello and welcome to my online portfolio and photo gallery (coming soon). I am available for freelance and full-time positions, gigs, and collaborations. Take a look around and please let me know if you have any leads!
About
I’m a managing editor, musician, and artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a master’s degree in public health. A perpetual student of life, I strive to uncover the root causes of public health issues and how the interconnectedness of the natural and artificial, or built environment, influences health behaviors. For example, for my master’s thesis and culminating experience project, I explored therapeutic arts and self-care opportunities for social workers experiencing burnout and secondary trauma. The short documentary film I co-created, “Release: Self-Care for Trauma Workers,” illustrates this potential and raises awareness about the subject. I strive to support health and well-being in my professional roles, and to inspire creativity and collaboration among everyone I meet.
For my bachelor’s degree, I double-majored in International Studies and Spanish Language and Literature, studied Mandarin Chinese, and lived abroad in Panama for over a year immersing myself in the language and culture, learning and performing Panamanian folklore music on the violin, and teaching violin and English to children. Throughout my professional career, I’ve translated and reverse-translated over 30 technical documents including fact sheets, survey instruments, and reports.
Over the past decade I’ve honed a wide range of writing, editing, content management, content curation, and communication skills. At government contractor JBS International, I contributed hundreds of articles for the federal Family and Youth Services Bureau’s National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth website (which will soon be renamed, with a new URL, to National Clearinghouse on Homeless Youth and Families). My writing contributed in part to the website winning the Standard of Excellence award for government websites in the 2013 New Media Awards competition. My experience includes:
- Leading teams to curate an online literature database and author a blog featuring research summaries, reports/toolkits, podcasts, online courses, video series, slideshows, and other media
- Shaping the content strategy for weekly research summaries and monthly e-newsletter featuring the latest research in the field
- Liaising with experts in the field to create scripts for an animated video series on cultural competence in youth work (pending publication) and coordinating with cross-functional instructional media and video production teams to produce online courses on trauma-informed care and Positive Youth Development
- Distilling complex technical terms into accessible and engaging language to promote measurable positive outcomes in health and well-being
- Delivering substantive and proofreading edits with an eye toward engaging structure and adherence to AP style, while preserving the original writer’s voice and ownership of the piece