Experience

Eversana/Intouch
Creative Director/Writer September 2021 – present

Lead teams across a variety of healthcare brands (including Takeda hematology and rare disease brands),
inspiring and nurturing ideas, helping to elevate the work and make healthcare human, memorable and meaningful. All while making sure that people can do their best work and even have fun along the way.

ACD/Copywriter/Idea Person November 2014 – September 2021

As part of the Design Group, worked on various brands and projects across the agency to create and shape big ideas, while also writing all the goods (campaign tactics, videos, sites, manifestos, naming explorations and more), always with a distinctive voice and a whopping emotional punch.

Digitas
ACD/Copywriter September 2013 – November 2014
Lead Creative April 2011 – September 2013
Sr. Copywriter October 2007 – April 2011
Copywriter June 2003 – October 2007

Worked on 360 campaigns for Jenn-Air, KitchenAid, MillerCoors, Frosted Flakes, Disney, Saab, Samsung, Nintendo, Kaiser Permanente, Best Buy, Silk Almond Milk, Velveeta, Allstate, Jergens, John Frieda and more, everything from print to sites to social to OLA to branded content, experiential, email, trade materials and yes, even product names.

Other stops along the way:

Noble, BBDS
Copywriter

Worked on mostly greasy foodstuffs for snackers of all ages, Big client: Schwans. Small client: Starbucks.

Mobium Creative Group
Copywriter

B2B for NEC, Grainger, Equity Office, Tango Paper. Was also resident humorist.

Freelance
Copywriter

MSNBC, Slate, Chicago Blues Festival, restaurant reviews. Don’t go to Rudi’s Bistro, by the way.

Foote, Cone and Belding (as it was known then)
Junior Copywriter

Whee, the terror, the triumph, the junk food. Worked on Gatorade, Cool Whip, Kraft Handi-Snacks, pro bono.

Account Peon

Tip-toed through the high-powered world of Account Management while secretly putting my book together.

Lettuce Entertain You
Various

I wore many hats (literally). Yes, I was in cooking school. Yes, I wore a poufy hat. And I worked at Wildfire as a prep cook and office manager whilst learning the difference between a brunoise and a batonnet.

AT&T
Marketing Account Executive

Shared the joys of long-distance networks with a variety of business clients. Strategic and tactical, all at the same time. This is while I was in B-school and sipping lots of Starbucks.

Smith Barney
Investment Advisor

I somehow heard Wall Street calling my name. Worked one of the top women brokers until I passed my Series 7, then managed my own wee portfolio of clients. All while wearing suits with massive shoulder pads.

Condé Nast
Production Editor, Mademoiselle Magazine

It was glam. And snazzy. And snooty. Kept things moving and wrote the occasional short piece with headlines like “Brave New Whirl: the allure of this season’s ruffled skirts” and “Knit Wits: wildly wearable wool.” How did I not realize it was the best job ever?

Education

Syracuse University, M.A. Advertising Design
A fantastic program that embraced the essence of what it takes to do great work.

Cooking & Hospitality Institute of Chicago (known known as Le Cordon Bleu)
Knife skills, mother sauces, 16 ways to cook potatoes, and so much more.

University of Chicago Booth School of Business, not quite an M.B.A. in Marketing
I wanted to love it. But I did not. So I went to cooking school instead.

Harvard University, Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course
A bootcamp career starter for future writers, editors, snobs and eager young English majors.

Beloit College, B.A. cum laude
English major. Though I spent my junior year in Italy. And took German.

Recognition

Various Chicago Advertising Federation Gold and Silver Awards for Jenn-Air “Boldly Go” campaign, KitchenAid print campaign, Tango Paper campaign