Content Marketing & Strategic Communications
I create compelling stories that showcase institutional achievements and innovations across digital and print platforms. Through feature articles, social media content, and visual narratives, I help organizations engage their stakeholders and advance strategic priorities.
- Retro Exhibit Explores Computers, Campus in the ‘80s (Article)
- Steve Jobs Speaks at CMU (LinkedIn)
- Like, Totally Transformative Launch (LinkedIn)
- Like, Totally Transformative Launch (Instagram Post)
- The Andrew Network Launch Anniversary (LinkedIn)
- The University Libraries’ Digitization Lab is Making CMU’s History Searchable (Article)
- ‘Here to Stay’ Explores Pittsburgh’s Architectural History (Article)
Managing Editor & Project Management
As Managing Editor, I help guide Carnegie Mellon University exhibitions from concept to completion, working in creative teams to transform complex institutional stories into engaging narratives. I collaborate with experts, designers, and stakeholders to develop content strategies and provide editorial direction that brings these stories to life while meeting institutional goals.
Like, Totally Transformative: CMU in the ’80s
Carnegie Mellon University entered the ‘80s as a well-respected regional university, but President Richard Cyert’s vision at the start of […]
Here to Stay: Celebrating 40 Years at the Architecture Archives
Settlement, industrialization, urbanization, and redevelopment have each left a profound mark on the region’s built environment. The architecture bears testimony […]
Nuts, Bolts, & Wheels: 100 Years of Buggy
Interfraternity Motor Sweepstakes—which would come to be known colloquially as Buggy—is one of Carnegie Mellon University’s longest traditions. The students […]
Editorial Leadership
As an editorial leader, I've directed multi-platform publishing operations across digital and print media for over 20 years. From pioneering multimedia storytelling at Wired.com to building MIT Technology Review's digital news operation to scaling ETC Press into a leading academic publisher, I've consistently focused on innovating publishing workflows while maintaining editorial excellence and nurturing author relationships.
Operations I Managed
ETC Press
At Carnegie Mellon’s ETC Press (2017-2023), I reimagined what an academic press could be in the digital age, merging traditional […]
MIT Technology Review
At MIT’s Technology Review (2004-2006), I helped lead the publication’s digital transformation by building and directing a 10-person digital news […]
Wired
At Wired.com (2000-2002), I shaped emerging coverage of technology’s impact on society and culture through traditional and innovative storytelling formats. […]
Technology & Culture Journalism
For more than a decade as a technology journalist, I covered digital culture and transformation for Wired and MIT Technology Review, documenting the evolution of technology's impact on society. My complete archives from both publications are available on Authorly, featuring coverage of digital divides, file-sharing wars, entertainment industry disruption, and emerging tech.
Notable Coverage Areas:
Digital Divide & Regional Technology
- Old, Poor Face Digital Divide (MIT Technology Review)
- Notes from Appalachia—Stats on Rural Broadband Penetration (MIT Technology Review)
- Appalachia: Where Net Trails Off (Wired.com)
- The Lost Highway—Cover Story (Cincinnati CityBeat)
Technology & Entertainment Industry
- Picking at the Bones of Napster (Wired.com)
- Last Rites for Napster (Wired.com)
- The Day the Napster Died (Wired.com)
- Warner Bros. to Distribute Films Using Bit Torrent (MIT Technology Review)
- Google – YouTube – Entertainment Industry—Let’s Make a Deal (MIT Technology Review)
Culture & Entertainment
Additional Feature Writing
Selected Stories:
Books I've Written
Nuts, Bolts, & Wheels
Interfraternity Motor Sweepstakes—which would come to be known colloquially as Buggy—is one of Carnegie Mellon University’s longest traditions. The students […]
Dungeons & Dreamers
Dungeons & Dreamers: A story of how computer games created a global community follows the designers, developers, and players who built the virtual games and communities that define today’s digital entertainment landscape and explores the nature of what it means to live and thrive in virtual communities.
Books I've Edited
This Could Be Important
In 1979 Pamela McCorduck published the first modern history of artificial intelligence, Machines Who Think. But as This Could Be Important shows, she’d […]
Creative Chaos
Creative Chaos describes the dynamic process of collaborative design and development within interdisciplinary teams as they work to create something […]
Learn Work Play
The 2019/2020 academic year marks the 20th anniversary of the ETC. To celebrate, we’ve reached out to ETC alumni to […]
Literary Journals I've Edited
Hoosier Lit (Fall 2017)
HoosierLit: A Literary Magazine by The Geeky Press is a publication that features some of the best fiction, non-fiction, essays, […]
Hoosier Lit (Spring 2017)
HoosierLit: A Literary Magazine by The Geeky Press is a publication that features some of the best fiction, non-fiction, essays, poetry, and script writing by Indiana writers.
Archives & Additional Work
- Full Wired and Wired.com archive (subscription to read) | (free Authorly)
- Full MIT Technology Review archive (subscription to read) | (free Authorly)
- The Downtown Writers Jam Podcast archive | (free Authorly)
