I’m a communications and public relations professional with 13 years of experience,  a bachelor’s in journalism and political science from Rutgers University, and a master’s in urban education policy from Brown University.

I started my career as a science teacher and corps member in Teach For America, a highly selective corps and diverse network of leaders who confront educational inequity by teaching for at least two years. I taught special education science at a high school in Providence, Rhode Island. Then, I returned to my writing and communications roots and helped lead the communications strategy and fundraising for a network of K-12 charter schools in Rhode Island. These early career experiences developed my passion and commitment to education and solidified my natural role as a communicator.

More recently, I’ve been in the higher education space. At Gettysburg College, as the director of communications and content strategy, I oversaw the College’s content strategy.

Today, I’m at Lehigh University, where I am the director of communications leading crisis and strategic institutional communications.

As a communicator who is passionate about writing, over the past decade I’ve also developed a freelance writing and editing business and serve as the volunteer editor for a literary publication. This year, I joined the board of CUPRAP, a voluntary organization of communications professionals from colleges, universities and independent schools dedicated to advancing the understanding of higher education and enhancing the professional development of its members.