My quick bio: I'm a freelance writer, editor and coach who has covered everything from foraging green juice ingredients to the hidden costs of conventional agriculture.

I am the executive editor of The Brockovich Report, a newsletter from Erin Brockovich talking about the national water crisis, toxic chemicals, and other problems in your backyard.

I also offer editing and creative direction to aspiring and long-time book writers, especially with book proposals. Want to book a session with me? Connect here.

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I teamed up with my dad, a cancer physician for more than 25 years, to write The After Cancer Diet. Our mission with the book is to empower cancer survivors with easy tips to improve their health after active cancer treatment.

For those who want to read the longer version: As a curious and sensitive child, I started writing to understand the world around me. At the age of nine, through a local library, I published my first book, Bandit's Adventures, which followed my cat around the world and displayed my early interest in travel. I grew up in Florida, but left for the windy, cold winters of Chicago to pursue a career in journalism. My freshman class was the first one with more women than men. Quiet computer labs were just starting to replace rowdy rooms filled with typewriter levers and dinging space bars. I got my first email address in college and didn’t get my first cell phone until I graduated in 2000.

I started exploring alternative modes of healing in college, taking my first yoga class, falling in love with sun salutations and chanting. I helped organize a housing co-operative (MOSAIC) where we practiced consensus building to make decisions and shared whole-food vegetarian meals (just ask me about tofu scrambles) and household chores. After graduation, I pursued my investigative journalism training with a writing fellowship at Mother Jones Magazine in San Francisco in 2001, a year they won a National Magazine Award. As my writing career progressed, I became interested in food politics seeing the rise of factory farming, GMOs, toxins, and their connection to our health. With a desire to get my hands dirty and flee to a simpler, organic-friendly world, I moved to New Zealand and spent a year WWOOFing, writing about organic issues and shopping at farmers' markets.

Once I returned to the States, I craved that deep connection to the land and pure, locally grown foods. I became a Master Gardener and started growing my own vegetables in a small cottage home near the beach in Southern California where I worked at a gardening magazine. I moved to New York City in 2006 to study at Integrative Nutrition, learning everything I could about health and healing through traditional foods and studying more than 100 different dietary theories. After eight exciting years in NYC, I spent a weekend in Asheville, N.C. and then a summer studying herbs, hiking, practicing Acro yoga, and foraging for wild foods. I soon left the big city for life in one of the most bio-diverse areas of the world.

I now work amongst the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.

MY WRITING LIFE

I've been researching and writing about health, food politics, and environmental issues for more than 20 years. I worked as a writer for Omega Institute for 7 years, where I interviewed many of the country’s top top holistic and creative experts. My writing has been published in Mother Jones Magazine, NBCNews.com, Yahoo!HealthNews, The Guardian, Thrive Global, CNN.com, Edible Brooklyn, RebootwithJoe.com, Namawell.com, CleanPlates, Healthline.com, EmpowHer.com, Inhabitat.com, Organic New Zealand and more.

I co-wrote and edited Integrative Nutrition: Feed Your Hunger for Health and Happiness and worked in the marketing and publishing departments for Integrative Nutrition, the largest holistic nutrition school in the country. I worked as an editor at Random House in the digital books division for a cookbook project. I worked with Joe Cross on his New York Times best-selling book The Reboot with Joe Juice Diet. I edited and contributed to the Go Green East Harlem Cookbook (Jones Books) and Simple Food for Busy Families: The Whole Life Nutrition Approach (Ten Speed Press). As a California-certified Master Gardener, I wrote a monthly vegetable column and volunteered in the teen garden at Phoenix House in Southern California.

I serve as board president for Our Voice, Buncombe County’s anti-sexual violence and prevention center.

I am an ENFJ Myers Briggs Personality Type and my love language is quality time.

MY EDUCATION & TRAINING

B.S. in Journalism from Medill at Northwestern University, 2000

California Master Gardener Certification, 2006

Integrative Nutrition, 2007

Integrative Nutrition Immersion Honors Program, 2008