I am an editorial and creative leader with 15+ years of experience building the strategic and operational systems that let small teams in tech, journalism, and nonprofits punch above their weight.
Most recently, I led the editorial team behind Design at Meta, the company’s external publishing program for design storytelling across web, newsletters, and social. I rebuilt the program from the ground up after a period of dormancy, hiring the team and setting the editorial vision while overseeing a budget for in-house creatives, agency partners, and paid media. I also designed and implemented AI-enabled production and publishing processes to expand my small team’s capacity and position us for future growth, without sacrificing craft or editorial judgment.
Before Meta, I honed my editorial craft as a photojournalist, then as a photo editor at newspapers and magazines including National Geographic and Newsweek, culminating in five years in visual strategy at ProPublica. My editorial and operations role involved commissioning and art directing original photography, illustration, and other forms of visual journalism for complex and highly sensitive stories, while developing the systems and processes to operationalize creative production at the nation’s largest nonprofit investigative newsroom.
At ProPublica, I was the editorial lead and commissioning editor for the most read story of the year, a yearlong photo essay awarded Online Storytelling Project of the Year from Pictures of the Year International and the RFK Book and Journalism Awards Grand Prize. As part of ProPublica’s reporting on the consequences of abortion bans, “The Year After a Denied Abortion” was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, a National Magazine Award for Public Interest, a George Polk Award for Medical Reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism, and the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism.
I’m also the co-founder of Diversify Photo, a 501c3 nonprofit I helped grow from an idea into a global community and database of 2,000+ underrepresented visual creatives that editors and brands around the world now hire from.
I hold a Master’s degree in Photography from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and a Bachelor’s with Honors in Studio Arts from Trinity College.