Writing
I write stories about people who are at the heart of an institution. When your magazine introduces stories about real people—their accomplishments, their dreams, even their disappointments—you appeal to the hearts as well as the minds of your readers. And when you move their hearts, you engage them in a lifelong relationship with their school. Recent university magazine stories took me to:

• A designer chocolate business in Chicago to profile an artist who’d made chocolate a high-fashion business (cover story for Vanderbilt Magazine). *Winner of CASE Silver for Best Stories of the Year.
• The campaign trail in New Hampshire with students in the Dean campaign (cover story for Middlebury Magazine).
• Harvard to profile a Mesoamerican scholar (cover story, The Hill Magazine, McDaniel College)
• The Platte River in Nebraska with writer Jean Craighead George and 500,000 sandhill cranes (for the Penn Stater).
• A Vermont farm with country lawyer Peter Langrock (for Chicago Magazine).
• On the road with an improv comedy group, or into the past to talk about a family murder (for Middlebury Magazine).
• The Guggenheim where I asked the curator, "What in the world is contemporary art, anyway?".
• A family who were taking extraordinary measures to give their daughter an ordinary life.