Creative Director, Orchard Creative
September 2022 – current

CD leading Ocean Spray, Etsy, Quilted Northern, Light+Fit, and various other projects. Work includes film/TV, social, activations and brand partnerships for brand, seasonal and product campaigns.

Freelance Creative Director/Copywriter
June 2021 – April 2022

Clients included Danone, The Emerson Collective, a new app called Freeya!, and various pitches for agencies. Works spans CPG, fashion, purpose-driven work on the environment and education, and tech clients.

Chief Marketing Officer, 1906 New Highs
June 2018 - June 2021

During my tenure, I led all creative and strategy and managed the marketing department, initiatives, budgets and resourcing and co-creative directed all retail design. I helped build the brand from a startup Colorado brand with a broad target audience to a national juggernaut pioneering the category of “functional cannabis” and focusing on women 35-50, achieving 12x revenue growth in 2.5 years, and becoming one of the most talked about brands in the space, with press including Business Insider, Goop, Cosmo, Forbes and Rolling Stone.

Freelance Copywriter/Creative Director
April 2017 – June 2018

Writing and creative direction for clients such as Apple, Instagram, MAL for Good, Opinionated Group, Go Fund Me, YouTube, Uber, Red & Co, Tillamook, Strawberry Frog, and more.

MAL For Good/Media Arts Lab, ACD Copywriter/Creative Director
2015 –2017

Writing and creative direction on philanthropic clients such as Laurene Powell Job’s XQ Institute, and Apple projects including new product launches, brand initiatives, award-winning digital educational resources, and WWDC keynote content.

Freelance Copywriter
2010 – 2015

Clients: Wieden+Kennedy, 72 and Sunny, Google, Todd Waterbury, AKQA, Goodby Silverstein, TBWAChiatDay, The Martin Agency, Instrument, Chiel/One, North, Translation, Roundhouse, West Studios, Whirled, Rally, Big Giant

Accounts: Twitter, Uniqlo, Target, Google, YouTube, Nike, Microsoft, Amex, CLIF Bar, Levis, Chrysler, Walmart, Samsung, Xfinity, rdio, Nescafe, Kohl's, Kraft, Bud Light, Everest Entertainment, KEEN Footwear, Living Proof

72 and Sunny, Freelance Senior Copywriter
October 2013 - May 2014

Accounts: Target Wedding (the first time a big brand featured same sex couples in a wedding registry campaign!), Target Baby, Target Back to School, Target Holiday Formats: Interactive, print, television, OOH, in store, experiential

Wieden+Kennedy New York, Copywriter July 2008 - July 2010

Accounts: Delta Airlines, ESPN, Tanqueray Gin, ABC, Jordan, St. Ives, Noxzema, Worked on many successful new business pitches, print, TV, digital, OOH, retail, radio, and experiential. Highlights include helping to win the largest new business pitch in office history with my new global tagline for Delta Airlines: KEEP CLIMBING; producing major digital work under a global rebrand for Tanqueray; producing print TV and digital for several ESPN properties, and sampling moonshine at a NASCAR race.

Wieden+Kennedy Portland, Copywriter
May 2007 - July 2008

Accounts: Starbucks, Target, Nike, Evergreen Aviation/Space Museum, Wordstock, Feeding America, GOOD Magazine, The TAP Project Highlights: Made the Feeding America national conference cry with my first ever brand video; created inaugural campaigns for Evergreen Aviation; helped get momentum for the clean water initiative The TAP Project, abandoned a college faculty teaching position to join the weirdness of advertising and have only regretted it a few times(?!).

Songwriter and Musician
Corvair, 2018 – present
Eux Autres, 2002 – 2018

I have been a musician for more than 20 years and have released or appeared on fifteen albums so far. My music has been featured in Grey’s Anatomy, MTV, Comedy Central, ABC Family, NBC, Elle, Vogue, and several movies and TV commercials. To read more about my multi-decade musical odyssey, check out my interview in the iconic chickfactor magazine here.

Columnist, The Portland Tribune
2007 - 2008

Contributed a monthly style column to the award-winning Portland newspaper

Freelance Writer, various publications
1996 - present

Published fiction, essays, and arts/culture features in various magazines, literary journals, anthologies, and other books. Currently working on a novel about the pre-internet mid-nineties. Placements: Tin House, The Stranger, The Sun, Swink, Jane Magazine, Open City, Seattle Weekly, Portland Monthly, The Portland Tribune, The Organ Review of Arts, Revel in Portland

Literary Editor, The Organ Review of Arts
2002 - 2004

Literary Editor and contributor to a quasi-radical and mildly legendary arts newspaper, which published some remarkable stuff including work by Todd Haynes, Jon Raymond, Miranda July, Storm Tharp, Charles D’Ambrosio, Matthew Stadler, and others

Education

MFA, Creative Writing / English, University of Washington

BA, English, The Colorado College