Journalism, columns, research, history, and creative work.
Writing is the foundation of my career.
Before I worked in print production, graphic communications, large-format graphics, branding, or environmental design, I learned how to report, interview, research, write, edit, and explain information for readers.
My writing has appeared across newspapers, nonprofit publications, academic work, personal columns, and creative writing projects. The subjects have varied — sports, community life, history, poverty, international development, project management, family, identity, memory, and place — but the purpose has remained consistent: to make information meaningful and accessible.
This page brings together selected writing from several areas of my career.
Journalism & Feature Writing
My journalism background includes sports reporting, community journalism, profiles, human-interest features, news coverage, and editorial work.
As a reporter and sports editor, I covered athletes, coaches, schools, families, local businesses, youth teams, tournaments, and community figures. While sports were often the setting, the strongest stories were usually about people: their character, challenges, relationships, history, and place within the community.
Selected work in this area includes:
- Long-form sports profiles
- Human-interest features
- Youth sports and championship coverage
- Community reporting
- News and feature writing
- Sports front-page packages
Featured Themes
People behind the events
Many of my strongest stories focused less on scores and more on the people behind them: coaches, athletes, families, volunteers, and community figures.
Community memory
Local journalism often becomes a record of what a community valued at a specific moment in time. I have always been drawn to stories that preserve those moments.
Sports as community storytelling
Sports coverage gave me a way to write about identity, perseverance, mentorship, legacy, family, and belonging.
Opinion Columns & Personal Essays
In addition to reporting, I wrote columns and personal essays exploring family, friendship, aging, parenthood, memory, humor, change, and everyday life.
This work gave me room to develop a more personal voice. Unlike reporting, where the story belongs primarily to the subject, column writing requires the writer to offer perspective while still giving readers something they can recognize in their own lives.
Selected column themes include:
- Family and fatherhood
- Friendship and change
- Humor and everyday life
- Memory and reflection
- Community and identity
- Personal growth
These pieces reflect another side of my writing: not just documenting what happened, but asking what it meant.
Research & Explanatory Writing
My research and explanatory writing includes nonprofit articles, academic work, and project management analysis.
For The Borgen Project, I wrote articles focused on global poverty, hunger, water quality, refugees, and international development. These pieces required researching complex topics, interpreting statistics, and presenting global issues in a clear, accessible way for general readers.
My academic and project management writing includes historical research and graduate coursework analyzing organizational decisions, risk, stakeholders, scope, and project execution.
Selected areas include:
- International development writing
- Poverty and hunger research
- Water quality and public policy topics
- Historical research
- Project management case analysis
- Explanatory writing for public audiences
This work reflects one of my strongest recurring skills: taking complicated information and turning it into something readers can understand.
Historical Writing
My background in history has shaped the way I approach writing, reporting, and communication.
Historical writing taught me to look beyond individual events and ask larger questions: What caused this? Who was affected? What forces shaped the outcome? Why does this matter now?
My historical work has included research on Guyana, colonialism, labor, race, politics, Cold War influence, and decolonization. That work connects naturally to my journalism background because both disciplines rely on evidence, context, narrative, and interpretation.
History taught me that stories do not happen in isolation. They are shaped by people, systems, institutions, conflict, memory, and time.
Creative Writing
Creative writing is a smaller but meaningful part of my portfolio.
My creative work includes “The After Song,” which was recognized through the JUMP Creative Writing Challenge. Unlike journalism or research writing, creative writing begins without a source interview, assignment, or institutional goal. It relies on imagination, voice, structure, and emotional truth.
Including creative writing in this portfolio matters because it shows another dimension of my relationship with language: writing not only to inform, but to create.
Writing Philosophy
Across all of these forms, I return to the same core questions:
What matters here?
Who is affected?
What does the audience need to understand?
What is the clearest way to tell the story?
Whether I am writing about a high school athlete, a local coach, a global poverty issue, a historical conflict, a family experience, or a project management case study, my goal is to connect information with meaning.
Good writing does more than deliver facts. It helps people understand why those facts matter.
Selected Writing Categories
Journalism & Features
Sports reporting, profiles, human-interest stories, community journalism, and news coverage.
Columns & Essays
Personal columns, reflective essays, humor, family, identity, and community themes.
Research & Analysis
International development articles, project management writing, and explanatory communication.
Historical Writing
Academic research, historical interpretation, and long-form analysis.
Creative Writing
Fiction, personal creative work, and award-recognized writing.
Closing
This writing portfolio represents more than a collection of clips. It reflects the foundation of my career: observing carefully, asking questions, finding meaning, and communicating clearly.
Writing taught me how to think, how to listen, how to organize information, and how to help people understand the world around them. Those skills continue to shape my work in journalism, graphic communications, print production, project management, design, and community leadership.