I have worked as a staff writer on a monthly community magazine and have written freelance articles on human interest topics. I am also an awarded freelance photographer and writer who specializes in human interest themes, including adoptive families and elderly

I studied sociology at Oberlin College and photography at the Art Institute of Boston and completed a master's degree in library science at Simmons College. 

In 2002 I self-published a photo datebook on adoption entitled OUR FAMILIES: A Celebration of Adoption, a project for which I received partial funding from a City of Cincinnati Artist's Grant.  In the book I featured black and white images and chronicled the experiences of a diversity of families formed through adoption.  The work was also exhibited in the art gallery of WCET, Cincinnati's public television station.

As a Publications Specialist for Parke Care, a nursing home company, I did alot of writing about the elderly.

To explore a positive view of aging, for two years I interviewed and photographed active nonagenarians (people in their 90s), a project for which I again received a Cincinnati Artist's Grant.  The work, consisting of color photographs and written narratives, has been exhibited at nine Cincinnati area venues and is available for rental. 

In 2011 I published the companion book, POSITIVELY NINETY: Interviews with Lively Nonagenarians.


