About
I came to distribution through editing.
Editing taught me to ask what a reader needs from a story. Studying history made me curious about the institutions and habits that shape how people encounter it. Those questions now guide my work on copy, publishing, and distribution.
At Boston University, I ran the Journal of the Core Curriculum as editor-in-chief and edited at Charcoal Magazine. At BU Libraries, I built the social presence and discovered that the interesting question was not simply what to publish, but how the work should meet an audience.
From 2023 to July 2026, I ran day-to-day editorial distribution for Big Think Media’s partnership with Stand Together. I joined as a community manager and transitioned to campaign manager in 2026. The work moved between editing, publishing, partner coordination, and analysis.
Today, as an independent consultant, I advise on social strategy, editorial priorities, channel roles, and publishing operations. My current work includes building visual and publishing systems: social brand guidance, 12 editable Figma components, platform-specific templates, and a three-channel editorial calendar. I also established a workflow connecting source research, creative, copy, approvals, and publication plans.
What the work looks like
I decide which angle, headline, format, and publishing sequence will give a story its best chance of travelling. That has included advising on nonprofit channel strategy, building reusable social-design templates, managing two newsletters, packaging two long-form documentaries and four short-form videos a month, and writing social copy for campaigns spanning the NFL, NBA, film premieres, and music partnerships.
The work gets specific quickly. For a Spurs film about Lindy Waters III, I delivered the headline set, description, social copy, platform plan, and a map of which partner handles actually existed. The film published with my description unchanged.
I also write down the decisions that need to survive volume. I wrote the partnership’s voice-and-tone guide and living social-copy standards, co-designed an article-to-social workflow, and maintained publishing views that kept approvals, live links, and partner responses visible.
Technical and creative systems
How I build and operate the work
AI systems and model evaluation. I actively evaluate current OpenAI and Anthropic models—including Codex, ChatGPT, Claude, and Claude Cowork—against real research, writing, analysis, coding, and document-production tasks. I choose the workflow for the job, preserve sources and claim boundaries, and keep a human review step between model output and publication.
Visual and publishing systems. In Figma and Canva, I translate brand guidance into reusable visual systems, editable templates, platform formats, and review standards. My current consulting work includes a 12-component Figma library spanning feed, landscape, and Story formats.
Operations, data, and measurement. I work in Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and with Sprinklr, Airtable, ClickUp, Asana, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. I use Google Analytics, Search Console, UTM structures, dashboards, and platform exports. My formal database training covered SQL, MySQL, relational design, data modeling, Python, Git/GitHub, command-line tools, and Tableau.
Selected writing · 2022 honors thesis
“Why did everything look like this?”
Reading an ordinary landscape as evidence
My honors thesis began with a strip of road in Northfield, Ohio: cracked parking lots, empty storefronts, and a landscape I had spent years trying not to notice. It asks how the strip mall became a common American form and what its history reveals about mobility, consumer life, public space, and community.
It is an early version of the method behind this portfolio: begin with an ordinary artifact, reconstruct the system around it, then ask what that system allows people to see and do.
Outside work
History degree, Division I swimming, and bilingual in Russian.