Professional Experience

Apptegy

Little Rock, AR

Editor of SchoolCEO (April 2021 - October 2026)

  • Set editorial direction for SchoolCEO, a national print magazine reaching 25,000+ K-12 leaders

  • Wrote SchoolCEO’s style guide and built its editorial processes, turning all-night deadline crunches into a sustainable cycle

  • Led a team of writers and designers and managed freelance and guest contributors through each quarterly cycle

  • Hired early- and mid-career writers and coached them through collaborative edits

  • Wrote an average of 8,000 words per issue across reported features, profiles, explainers and Q&As

  • Conducted hundreds of calls with school leaders and communicators to stay close to readers’ concerns and build a national source network

  • Collaborated with marketing to grow print readership 47%

  • Represented SchoolCEO at national education conferences and helped plan the annual SchoolCEO Conference

SchoolCEO Content Writer (November 2018 - April 2021)

  • Reported profiles of superintendents, long- and short-form features and Q&As

  • Helped design surveys and analyze results for original research

  • Gave feedback, revisions and line edits on other writers’ work

Winrock International

Little Rock, AR

Editorial Associate (October 2016 - November 2018)

  • Wrote and edited stories and other copy for the Winrock site

  • Copy-edited stories, proposals, handouts, and graphics for various government-funded projects

  • Served as the primary writer for the USAID Sustainable Water Partnership project: editing all web content, writing two stories per month, and managing a monthly newsletter

  • Assisted with database management and event planning