Writing
I craft compelling narratives that uncover a subject’s essence and connect those insights with readers, inspiring interest, understanding and meaningful action through moving storytelling and strategic focus.
Recent Projects
Commencement Speaker Finds Purpose to Give Back to Neighborhood
The path to Jordan Hughes’ success hasn’t been straight, not for most of his life. Really, he finds himself on a new road, one nearly at its beginning. His destination is for a different life that leads him back to his old neighborhood. It started in the middle of the City of St. Louis and led him to St. Louis Community College...
From Challenge to Calling: A First-Generation Success Story
Her parents almost never talk about the war; the atrocities; the genocide.
Nobody knows how many Tutsis died during those 100 days of unimaginable horror in 1994. Estimates range from 500,000 to a million; 5,000 to 10,000 a day. Slaughtered and assaulted in unspeakable ways.
Impacted by 9/11, Nursing Student Shines at Work, School
Sept. 11, 2001, forever impacted the native New Yorker’s life. Milik defied her school’s leadership and left the building in the late afternoon to go home. During normal times, with the mass transit system, it took about 30 minutes to make the commute. This time she did it on foot. Walking with thousands of others, many covered in white ash, she made the two-mile walk to the Manhattan Bridge and across to Brooklyn where a classmate’s relative drove her home.
Bound by Love and Tragedy, Graduates Lean on Each Other
Not a day has gone by that Tekisha Blue and Keisha Acres, two St. Louis Community College students, haven’t struggled to keep from falling apart. Both lives were irreparably changed last fall, leaving the women with constant reminders of unthinkable tragedies.
Blue lost her daughter Sept. 9, following a long battle with cancer. Acres’ daughter, Alexzandria Bell, was shot and killed in the Oct. 24 school shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School (CVPA) in south St. Louis.
Nursing Staff Help Reservist Before Deployment
Chelsea Nadal knew her nursing program at St. Louis Community College-Forest Park might get interrupted at any time. Such is the life of an U.S. Army reservist.
As it turned out, with the backing of her unit and the help of her college, Nadal
will have both finished her degree program and taken her board exams to become a registered nurse before she ships out.