About Me

I have been an Assistant Professor at Montana State University since 2019. My family and I (including our 3 dogs) absolutely love living in the mountains. I get outside and hike, ski, climb, and canoe, as much as possible on our state’s beautiful public lands.

I am also an avid fibre crafter, and Montana is the perfect place to hone my skills and love for all things woolen. I recently acquired a spinning wheel and a large quantity of raw wool from a local rancher and have been teaching myself to spin through online tutorials, books, and conversations with other spinners. Technical communication is a huge part of all of these extracurricular activities, and I am always delighted when I can nerd-out about any of them as part of my work, whether that’s engaging hiking communities about protecting public lands, skiing communities about making sure we have snowpack for decades to come, or fibre crafters and fibre producers about the impacts of drought on resources and how to communicate science with our work.

I also worked in the publishing industry for several years before returning to academia. I worked at academic presses, trade presses, and educational product developers in Boston, MA. I bring this professional experience to the classroom in preparing my students to succeed in writing careers, and to my research collaborations in putting finesse on proposals and projects.

I am always open to new collaborations, especially projects that engage stakeholders in multi-directional science communication. Send me an email if you’d like to know more about my work or talk about an idea!