About Me

Before I fell in love with advertising, I was a one-hit wonder with a single that charted on rock radio for one strange, glorious week in 2012. As it turns out, songwriting and copywriting aren't so different. Just like every pop song pretty much says the same thing ("I love you," "I hate you," "let's get wasted"), every ad says, "buy this product." So when I started writing my first ads, I was already used to having x-amount of space to convey a certain message, and finding interesting new ways to say it every time.

Before that, I had a career in activism that started with an arts education program for underserved BIPOC tweens that I founded my senior year of college. It ended up being spotlighted in a best-selling book with Cory Booker, which led to a move to New Jersey to run a national education non-profit in Newark.

And before that, I grew up in Washington, DC with free-flowing MAD magazines, Tom Lehrer albums, and Homer Simpson's mellifluous voice always wafting out of some room, somewhere. I think that's why humor finds its way into so much of my work. Also, I was a hideous teenager.

In my free time, I write and produce songs, mentor copywriting students, and hang out with my dog, Scrabble. Get in touch and we'll do a Zoom beer or something.

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Experience

The Garden

Associate Creative Director

Toronto, ON

2020 - present

Miami Ad School

Teacher: "Ideas First"

Toronto, ON, Canada

2020 - present

Leo Burnett

Senior Copywriter

Toronto, ON

2019 - 2020

john st.
Copywriter
Toronto, ON
2017 - 2019

Apple, Inc.
Freelance Writer
Cupertino, CA
2016 - 2017

KBS (now Forsman + Bodenfors)
Copywriter
Toronto, ON
2015 - 2016

KBS (now Forsman + Bodenfors)

Account Executive

New York, NY 2014 - 2015

Stephie Coplan + The Pedestrians
Frontperson/singer/songwriter/pianist
March 2011 – January 2014

Skills

Logic Pro, piano, singing, songwriting, jingle writing, music production, basic Photoshop, photography

Education

Tufts University
B.A., Philosophy
2005 – 2009, cum laude