With my grandfather in 1969

I was about to start second grade on July 20, 1969, when the first astronauts landed on the moon.

"What things we have seen in our lives!" my grandfather said to my grandmother. I remembered the stories they told that day much more vividly than what was on TV.

The things they shared launched my career goal of helping people tell their stories, and it's as thrilling to me today as it was way back then.

​EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• I live in Bryan-College Station, Texas, and have clients around the world.
• Over the years, I have written for three presidents of Texas A&M University and three chancellors of The Texas A&M University System.
• I also have extensive experience with other types of writing and editing, including for three state agencies and a federal agency.
• ​I earned a B.A. in English from Hendrix College (ranked the top up-and-coming liberal arts college by U.S. News & World Report in recent years), and an M.Ed. and Ph.D. in higher education administration from Texas A&M.

AWARDS & HONORS

• I was only the second person to receive both the Dissertation of the Year Award and T. M. Stinnett Award for Scholarly Achievement for my doctoral work.
• I participated in Leadership Texas (now Leadership Women), a year-long program for 100 women leaders.
• I was awarded an Administrative Fulbright Grant to study higher education in Japan.
• My work for clients has received awards from CASE, the International Association of Business Communicators, and Public Relations Society of America.
• My fiction won the top prize in the 2012 Writers' Police Academy Golden Donut short story contest, was a finalist for the Bill Crider Prize for Short Fiction at the 2019 Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, and received an honorable mention in the 2020 Flash Fiction Contest by Spider Road Press.

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