Providing a range of professional services including research and writing, archiving & curating, as well as project management (and resuscitation).
As an independent researcher, writer, and archivist, I collaborate with private clients on family history research and writing projects, as well as the development and maintenance of multi-generational personal archives. I am particularly passionate about working with clients to create and co-create curated works – books and scrapbooks, reference catalogs, documentaries, family trees, and more – drawn largely from their own archives and supplemented by my research.
Every project is unique.
I bask in the freedom to devise custom solutions, break arbitrary rules, and set a pace that works for everyone. The process of fleshing out ideas and thinking through possibilities inspires me, and taking a project from idea-hood to a real, hold-in-your-hands product gives me life.
In addition to working with private clients on projects of their own design, I have engaged in research and writing projects with organizations including a Kalamazoo non-profit and a Chicago-based PAC.
The thread running reliably through all of my work is a yearning to tell stories about people and through people. Experience has convinced me that when we put people first, we open the door to real connections among the creator, the content, and the consumer, whoever they are, wherever they sit or stand.