Strategist · Storyteller · Scholar · Runner

Executive Communications Leader | PhD | Corporate Storytelling & AI-Enhanced Strategy | Founder of Mile Marker Matriarch

Professional Work History

• Communications executive with 25 years at Fortune 500s (Wells Fargo, Bank of America).

• Expertise: strategic communications, corporate storytelling, data visualization, executive advisory, crisis communications.

• Corporate storyteller

Academic / Scholarship

• PhD in Rhetorics, Communications, and Information Design, Clemson University (Dissertation: Princesses, Divas, and Mother Runners, awarded distinction). Download here

• Created the theoretical framework, Running Rhetorics, as a new approach for understanding the gendered, embodied experiences of women runners.

Passion Projects / Mile Marker Matriarch

• Founder of Mile Marker Matriarch, a podcast and community centering women’s embodied experiences in running.

• Running coach (RRCA), Certified Personal Trainer (NASM CPT), and Certified Nutrition Coach (NASM CNC).

• Teach women to run not just for pace, but for purpose, healing, and power.

Writing & Publications

• Books: Candy Around the World, Guilt-Free Cupcakes, Lunch, by me!, A Pet for Emberly and Culinary Duct Tape: Greek Yogurt. 

• Corporate & Media Publications: Disney Parks Blog, planDisney panel, Working Mother, Orbitz, Charlotte Parent, My Carolina Town, The Charlotte Observer,

• Academic Publications: Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, Gender, Place & Culture, The Contemporary Drug Problems Journal. Review my full list of publications. here

• Manager Editor for WAC Journal, a national peer-reviewed journal on writing across the curriculum. Contributing Editor for QU-Queens University Literary Magazine.