I’m a web-specialized travel and lifestyle editor and writer with 20-plus years’ experience. If you’re looking for an on-call professional editor or writer, who’s a stickler for details and passionate about storytelling, you’ve come to the right place. Contact me for hire as a freelance editor, writer, special projects manager, guest speaker, or writing instructor. Let me help you craft compelling stories and bring your editorial projects to life.
A freelance editor who’s worked at top travel publications AFAR, Fodor’s, Travelzoo, and ShermansTravel, my writing is regularly featured in prestigious outlets like Condé Nast Traveler, BBC, CNN, and more. Over the years, my articles and assignments have taken me to more than 60 countries across six continents, and have called for insightful interviews with leading luminaries, including politicians, authors, scientists, conservationists—even astronauts.
The great pause on travel during the pandemic, however, granted me an important opportunity to contemplate how the travel industry contributes to our current climate crisis, and how we might collectively travel better. After two years of sustainable tourism studies at leading universities, I now work as a champion for responsible tourism in the media and believe that we can all travel with conscience, for the greater good.
Today, my reporting dives deep on themes of sustainable tourism and sustainability, while I also write occasional features and essays on deeply personal topics (like maternal mortality and family estrangement) for prominent lifestyle publications. Through my work, I strive to use words to create change.
An extensively trained journalist and editor, with fine-tuned researching, interviewing, and fact-checking skills, my expertise is backed up by 25 years of real-world and professional training, including an in-progress Master’s in Journalism from Harvard’s Extension School, a Professional Certificate in Editing from New York University, and a BA in Journalism from SUNY New Paltz. Building on my sustainable travel expertise, I’ve also racked up sustainable tourism certifications from the Wageningen University & Research and the University of Copenhagen.
Additionally, I teach students on a variety of writing topics, and have been a featured speaker in the media, at universities, and on panels regarding best practices for both the tourism industry and travel writing today.
A lifelong New Yorker, my home base these days is in Kingston, in New York’s Hudson Valley, where I live with my husband and young daughter, and spend my days shamelessly making puns and dutifully serving as a cat slave to my two fluffy feline rulers.
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What I Do
I’m a web-specialized travel and lifestyle editor and writer with 20-plus years’ experience. I’m available for remote and contract hire as a freelance editor, special projects manager, writer, guest speaker, and writing instructor.
Editor
I'm an editorial pinch hitter who's edited for leading travel publications like AFAR, Fodor's, Travelzoo, and more. Skilled at producing and editing web-friendly, SEO-primed content, with a network of freelance writers around the globe, I can help fill in editorial team gaps and bring special editorial projects to life.
Writer
An extensively trained journalist, I write compelling research-based and interview-enriched stories on sustainable tourism, New York tourism, family travel, and trending lifestyle and sustainability topics for outlets like Condé Nast Traveler, Good Housekeeping, Parents, CNN, BBC, and more.
Educator & Speaker
I'm a writing instructor who's helped students around the globe break into the exciting world of freelance writing. I've also been featured as a travel expert in media outlets like Good Morning America Now, ABC News Now, NPR, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as at esteemed organizations like Harvard Extension School.
WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE TOURISM?
The future of tourism must be a more responsible one. But what does it mean to travel sustainably? The nonprofit Global Sustainable Tourism Council says that in order to meet that objective, we must “minimize the [industry’s] negative impacts and maximize the positive ones.” Indeed, we can all be more conscious consumers of travel, by being mindful of and accountable for our impact on the natural world and our fellow earthlings—with an eye toward future generations, as well.
Granted, the concept of sustainability can feel like a counterintuitive pairing within the context of today’s fast-growing tourism industry, so defined as it is by destructive components like carbon-spewing planes, cruise ships, and cars; increased local waste production and consumption of resources; disturbances to natural environments; and exploitation of and/or disregard for local peoples and cultures. Yet, tourism and travel—when done right—has the potential to counter these trends and can claim many positive impacts, too, including economic benefits and preservation opportunities for culture, wildlife, and natural habitats.
By elevating media coverage around sustainable tourism innovations and solutions, we can help the public cut through industry “greenwashing” at this critical time, and pair travelers up with the forward-thinking travel destinations, brands, and experiences that are making the biggest strides in the sustainability space. From electric planes to EV rentals, sustainable hotels to cleaner, greener cruise ships, the future of sustainable tourism is here, now.
