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I'm a multi-linguisT

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Scholarship | Marketing | Hollywood

​​Packaged as a cultural analyst, inside I'm a writer, tastemaker, and PhD. With an elite blend of advertising, academics, and media production, I bisect the feminine experience across the lifecycle.

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I do this at a time when women’s voices (and bank accounts) have earned equal volume, while their bodies are still being policed and marketed.

 

Put simply: My work examines how identity, health, culture gets shaped through our pocketbots. ​​

About

About

Clear History

​For over twenty years, I worked inside the media machines that shape culture.

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I got my start in Hollywood, creating reality TV. My production expertise carried me into global advertising where I produced campaigns for automotive titans like Cadillac, Chevrolet, and Ford.

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Somewhere between broadcast shoots and social strategy, I noticed a critical shift. Media systems were fundamentally altering identity, aspiration, and emotional life—particularly for women. This target was moving fast. To capture it, I stepped away from traditional media production to pursue a PhD.

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Now, as a media scholar and cultural analyst, I study the tethered life: the invisible, psychological attachment between humans and their mobile devices. My research examines how wellness and cultural expectations are mediated through screens across the feminine experience, from Gen Z girlhood to Gen X womanhood.

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I've lived on both sides of the screen. My perspective is unique because I've:

  • Birthed narratives by nurturing creative concepts into broadcast.

  • Nursed communication across mediums from inception to completion.

  • Grown research by studying how women internalize content.

 

My work sits at the intersection of scholarship, branding, media production, and cultural analysis. I specialize in the human side of data: why we scroll, what we absorb, and how our phones function like emotional architecture.

Services

Services

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System Preferences

Through creative strategy and proprietary scholarly frameworks, I help organizations better understand evolving audience behavior, emotional culture, digital wellness.  My unique background brings clarity to the blurred boundary between people and their devices. There’s a reason why digital analytics aren’t helping brands scale or drive sales.

 

My work is relevant for brands, media organizations, women’s health initiatives, and institutions trying to better understand how people — particularly women — experience identity, aspiration, and wellbeing through their media environments.​

 

Mostly, I specialize in the human side of all this: why we scroll, what we absorb, who we are reflecting our screens, and what it means to live in a world where our phones increasingly function like emotional architecture.

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Deep Insight
& Analysis​

The HATS Assessment

  • A proprietary scholarly methodology to evaluate demographic resonance.

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Screen Culture Audit

  • Deep-dive diagnostic into how your target audience interacts with your digital footprint.

 

Emo Audience Segmentation 

  • Moving past flat age brackets to map the emotional profiles of Gen Z, Millennial, and Gen X women.

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Ecosystem &
Brand Strategy

Brand Media Strategy

  • Aligning your messaging with the complex political and cultural realities of women’s health and wellness.

 

Digital Ecosystem Development

  • Building the architecture for high-engagement podcasts, web series, social content pipelines, and site builds.

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Production &
Development

Creative Partner Assessment

  • ​Vetting agencies, production houses, and creative teams to ensure cultural alignment.

 

Execution Chaperone

  • Overseeing media production from inception to launch, ensuring scholarly insights are never lost in creative translation.

Portfolio

Portfolio

Airplane Mode

​I'm a true hyphenate.  Equal parts writer, producer, and researcher.

For 20 years, I made everything from TV to TikTok. Today, I'm a Doctoral and Teaching Fellow and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Here's a bird's eye view of my greatest hits from my favorite mediums.

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Campaign Case Studies

Destinations could not be reached without the methodology of travel.  

 

Enjoy the ride of 4 creative journeys.

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Screen Time

Film Production

A CREATIVE PRODUCER for ad content contributes and manages creative teams and partners, like a manager of a sports team. 

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A STORY PRODUCER for documentary content crafts the plot, like a writer of fiction.   ​

I'VE BEEN BOTH.

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Pinch-to-Zoom

Teaching Examples

Helping Advertising students move between the details and the bigger picture.

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These assignments work to create a space for focused learning and creative confidence.

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Dark Mode

Research

Look beneath the surface of media to understand its effects on identity, culture and human behavior.

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Contact

Contact

Open Tabs

Read Recipts

Cheers, I'll get right back!

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