Assistant Director, Marketing & Communications, for one of the world's largest and best known arts education institutions Co-owner of multiple county newspaper and specialty publications group Expertise in training/hiring/supervision and management, advertising sales, news-gathering, interviewing, delivery, composition and photography, video scripting and directing, special event planning, fundraising, and writing for newspapers, television and radio, magazines, and websites Graduate, University of Iowa (triple major: journalism, English and history)

Title: Founder, Principal, Co-Owner
Hometown: Southfield, Michigan
Education: University of Iowa
First Job: Cub reporter, Farmington Enterprise
M.O.: Look at the big picture, then step back again. Focus first - and last - on audience
Inspirations: Loved ones, freedom and its fragility, Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes
Interests: Learning, waltzing at the Grand, west coast swing and Nightclub two-step, synchronized skating
Pet Peeve: Sentences that end in prepositions
Words to Live By: When you are right, prove it. When you are wrong, admit it