Serving Chicago's underground since 2011.

Since graduation, I've been spending lots of my time doing PR and social media marketing for Neo, "Chicago's oldest nightclub." I've learned a lot about managing a facebook account from the business side and what kind of tactics will get people to sit up and pay attention. I've also been having a blast sharing music and entertainment news with a Chicago rock and alternative audience and basically being lucky enough to be allowed to play in with the folks behind such an iconic Chicago institution.

One of the biggest undertakings has been creating an archive for their amazing collection of advertising materials. Combing through 30+ years of flyers and posters has been a real treat. Here's a flyer I made for a recent event:

Please visit their page to see more of where I've been trying to take their editorial voice and place in the facebook sharing world. And don't forget to fan us!

Beaucoup Chicago

Medill's annual publishing project presents Beaucoup Chicago, the very first local magazine made exclusively for the iPad.

This is my capstone project. I was lucky enough to be able to combine my magazine skills with something as high-tech and cutting edge as this project, for which I was a part of the editorial team. This means I did everything from copy-editing the text for many of the stories in the final draft of the magazine and pitching in with an extra hand for many of the special projects.

Life - now in exciting 3D!

"AIDS Virus - Third Edition" by Ellen Sandor

Medill Reports: Chicago

Republished by: The Chicago Journal

Chicago artist Ellen Sandor has been bending the dimensions of visual art since the 1980s, creating scientific visualizations of everything from fractal math to viruses.

Driven originally by what she describes as “a healthy appetite for kitsch,” Sandor was fascinated by turn-of-the-century novelties such as lenticular postcards and stereoscopic films. She set out to develop ways to include similar alternative effects in her work.

Learning to regulate emotions may offer comfort to those with developmental challenges

Rubbing "Weeping Yogi" statues such as this one is thought
to bring comfort to the distressed. (Jessica Krinke/MEDILL)

Medill Reports: Chicago

Republished in: Get Healthy Magazine (Northwest Indiana Times)


"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.” -Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

I often recall a duck cruising along a placid lake when trying to describe living with ADHD. It appears calm, daydreaming on the surface while kicking frantically underneath.