Writing & Editing
Content Marketing Samples
“Long-Term Care Insurance: Flexibility and Peace of Mind,” Truist Wealth Perspectives, 2023
“Transforming Macroeconomic Uncertainty Into Opportunity,” Truist Purple Paper, 2023
“Is This Easy to Read?” Pace Insights, 2022
“A New World of Talent: A Leader’s Guide to the Psychology of Today’s American Worker,” Truist Leadership Institute, 2022
“Global Growth through Better Teamwork,” Truist Leadership Institute, 2021
“A Change of Perspective,” interview with Duriya Farooqui, Truist Leadership Institute, 2020
“Charitable Giving and Rising Interest Rates: What to Know as You Plan,” Wells Fargo Private Bank, updated for the Conversations app, 2023
“The Economics of Private School Education,” Wells Fargo Advisors Lifescapes, 2018
photo by Daniel Meigs
Feature Writing Samples
photo by Andrew Kist
What a thrill to interview Cokie Roberts in 2007! I admire her greatly as a journalist, and my mom admires her mom, the late Representative Lindy Boggs, in particular for her work on the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 to give women the freedom to borrow money without a male cosigner.
photography by Stacey Van Berkel
Our State is one of several magazines where my freelance pieces appeared from 1998 onward. “Two Easels, One Vocation,” about the founders of the Originals Only gallery in West Jefferson, North Carolina, has a particular warm spot in my heart because the February 2010 weekend I went to do the interview, my (now) husband completely surprised me and proposed.
illustration by Larry Williams