"What makes you think a writer isn't a salesman?" —Kurt Vonnegut
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These are some of my best institutional communications from my career at Harvard. Please click the headlines to read further, or visit my content page to see more of my work.
President Garber’s
2024 New Year’s Card
Following the tumultuous fall of 2023, then-Provost Alan Garber deftly chose to rework his annual newsletter-style holiday card into a New Year’s greeting. Collaborating on a razor-thin deadline with the Office of the Provost (and then President), we built this winter missive of shared values and new beginnings—a fitting message for a president who needed to quickly turn the page on one of the University’s most difficult chapters.
AA&D Recruitment Microsite
Probably the one project where I had the most creative license. Our Talent Management office wanted a friendlier website than Harvard Careers (now conspicuously refreshed) and asked for fun, casual copy to help shake the university’s elitist reputation. The partner was so pleased that most of the copy on-site is still from my first draft in 2022, save for some updates and additions they had me make in 2025.
Harvard-Smithsonian
Eclipse 2017 App
Part of a media blitz for the Center for Astronomy’s eclipse app, this Gazette article is one of my favorite examples of the many institutional communications I was tasked with making readable—partially because space is my bailiwick, but also because when I went out into the Square to watch it myself, I saw tons of people using the app.
I usually keep writing samples to a maximum of three, but this one won’t take a minute to read and gives a good idea of my sense of humor.