I'm currently a freelancer for Entrepreneur magazine, Seattle Magazine, Seattle Business Monthly, Yahoo! Hotjobs, and the Seattle Times, among others. I was a staff writer at the Puget Sound Business Journal for more than six years.


Recent awards include a 2007 Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) award, and a 2007 MADD Media Award, both for her February '07 Seattle Magazine article on Washington's DUI laws, 'Is There a Road to Justice?' I also received a 2007 first-place SPJ for her Dec. 2007 Seattle Magazine article, 'Talking Trash,' about the fate of Seattle's garbage.


I received a 2005 Best in Business award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW), the first such win in PSBJ's 25-year history, for a story on nonprofit-executive compensation.


Recent corporate accounts include Dell, Dun & Bradstreet, and Canadian telecom giant Rogers Publishing.


I also have broadcast experience in radio producing, writing and serving as an on-air host and guest. I was a host/producer on KPFK Los Angeles' Feminist Analysis of the News in the early '90s and served as producer/host for other KPFK programming. More recently, I was a frequent guest on KPLU in Seattle, where I was interviewed by host Dave Meyer and discussed my PSBJ articles. rnrnI mentor writers and teach them how to have more lucrative writing careers.


I also teach small businesses and nonprofits strategies for getting their story in the media through my Media Crashcourse, which I've taught through Discover U and to individual clients.


At PSBJ, I wrote four stories a week on beats including restaurant, nonprofits, retail, the beer and wine industry, higher education and arts and entertainment. Previously, I was a senior writer at National Home Center News (now Home Channel News) for five years. My work has also appeared in Nation's Restaurant News, the Wall Street Journal, Utne Reader, Los Angeles Times, and on aish.com, among others.