Communications Executive. Rhetorician. Writer. Embodied Performance & Wellness Coach.
I help people and organizations communicate with clarity and integrity by translating embodied truth into stories that invite meaning and build trust.
Authentic communication begins before the message.
It begins with truth.
My work lives at the intersection of strategic communication, rhetoric, storytelling, scholarship, writing, movement, and embodied wellness.
Across each of these disciplines my purpose is the same: to help people and organizations uncover what is real, give it language, and communicate with clarity, humanity, and integrity.
For more than 25 years, I have helped leaders and organizations craft narratives that create alignment, build trust, and move audiences.
As a rhetorician, I understand that the most important aspect of communication is audience. Connecting with your audience requires more than customizing a message based on assumptions about a homogenous ‘group’ mentality, preconceived notions, and tropes. An audience is not merely a ‘group’, rather audiences are comprised of individuals. Each of whom have their own individual fears, values, expectations, needs, and histories. Meaningful communication requires empathy, discernment, audience intelligence, and the ability to listen deeply enough to understand what people are truly asking to hear.
I believe the most powerful communication is not performative. It is not institutional . It is not manufactured.
It is clear.
It is human.
It is grounded.
It is trustworthy.
It is true.
Communication fails when organizations focus solely on what they need to say. It succeeds when institutional goals are translated into language that reflects the realities, concerns, and experiences of the people receiving the message. My approach bridges the gap between institutional and vernacular perspectives, helping organizations communicate with clarity, authenticity, and integrity while building trust and understanding across audiences.
Whether I’m advising executives, shaping organizational narratives, writing, coaching movement, or teaching embodied wellness, my work is rooted in the same conviction:
Communication should reveal what is true, honor what is human, and build trust through integrity.
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My work moves across communication, rhetoric, scholarship, writing, running, and embodied wellness, but the purpose remains the same: to help people and organizations find what is true, give it language, and communicate it with clarity, humanity, and trust.
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Strategic Communication Rooted in Trust
I help leaders and organizations communicate complex ideas with clarity, humanity, and integrity, crafting narratives that create alignment, build trust, and move audiences.
Explore my Insider Threat Communications Case Study
Rhetoric, Audience, and Meaning-Making
As a rhetorician, I study and practice how language, audience, story, identity, context, and power shape meaning. My work centers ethical communication that honors people, their identities, and needs.
My scholarship examines gender, identity, embodiment, motherhood, running, and vernacular meaning-making. I hold a PhD in Rhetorics, Communications, and Information Design, Clemson University (Dissertation: Princesses, Divas, and Mother Runners) I established a theoretical framework, coined Running Rhetorics, as a new way to understand running as a form of communication between body, self, and world.
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Writing, Story, and Narrative Identity
I write to make meaning.
Across corporate communication, scholarship, creative nonfiction, academic publication, and personal narrative, my writing explores how people and institutions tell the stories that shape identity, culture, belonging, power, and transformation.
I help people and organizations craft narratives that are not generic, borrowed, or performative. The strongest stories emerge from lived experience: what has been endured, chosen, built, lost, reclaimed, and imagined.
My work asks deeper questions:
What story are you telling?
Is it true?
Does it build trust?
Does it reflect who you are becoming?
Does it help others understand, connect, and act with integrity?
I believe story is not decoration. Story is architecture. It is how we organize experience, communicate purpose, and create a future others can believe in.
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Embodied Performance and Wellness
As a running coach (RRCA), certified personal trainer, certified nutrition coach, and certified yoga instructor, I approach movement as more than fitness. I see the body as a source of knowledge, communication, strength, and self-trust.
Mile Marker Matriarch
I created Mile Marker Matriarch, a podcast and platform that centers women’s embodied experiences in running and empowers runners at all levels, to help women run for purpose, healing, and power.
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Running
Running has never been just about miles for me.
I have run more than 150 road races across a variety of distances, from 5Ks to marathons. My favorite running event is the Chicago Marathon, which I have run every year since 2017. But beyond finish lines, race medals, and pace charts, running has become one of the primary ways I understand myself and the world around me.
For me, running is discipline, freedom, grief, resilience, self-trust, and becoming. It is where the body speaks before language arrives. It is where I have learned to listen to myself, move through hard things, reclaim strength, and make meaning from lived experience.
My philosophy of running extends beyond performance. I believe running can be a rhetorical act, a way the body communicates with the self, with others, and with the world. Running reveals what we carry. It teaches us what we are capable of enduring. It gives form to emotions that often have no words. It invites us to become more honest, embodied, and alive.
This is the essence of my work as a runner, scholar, coach, and founder of Mile Marker Matriarch: running is never just running. It is a way of knowing, healing, speaking, and becoming.