I’m an award-winning writer, editor, and content producer with a focus on character-driven stories of outdoor adventure and social and environmental impact. I’m passionate about telling truly local stories that carry universal themes to inspire global understanding, connection, and action.

For more than a decade, I have written, edited, directed, and produced stories for National Geographic Adventure, REI, Osprey, Cotopaxi, Arc’teryx, Sidetracked Magazine, RANGE Magazine, One World Play Project, and more.

From 2019 to 2021, I directed and produced DURGA: Forging a New Trail, a short documentary film about a female guide in Nepal. During that time, I cultivated, led, and collaborated with a multi-national, multi-lingual crew and cast.​ DURGA was made possible with support from Arc’teryx, Teva, Osprey, and more than 100 crowdfunding campaign contributors. The film premiered at No Man’s Land Film Festival in March 2021, where it was awarded “Best of Festival.”

I’m a dreamer, doer, and follow-througher with a passion for taking pie-in-the-sky ideas and breaking them down into achievable action plans with real—and beautiful—results. I work in the lifestyle I live and come alive in the space where nature, adventure, storytelling, creativity, and community collide.

In 2016, a desire to live internationally, learn Spanish, and more deeply explore Patagonia prompted me to move to Argentina. I arrived with flexibility, minimal expectations, and quite a few jitters. Patagonia captured my heart and soul. The region has humbled me, become one of the places that most feels like home, and constantly inspires me to collaboratively tell and share truly local stories of people, place, and culture to foster understanding and influence positive change.

Today, I’m balancing life between Northern Michigan and Patagonia with my two rescue cats, Bali and Ginger.