Professional Samples

Both& Apparel’s ‘The Journal’ is meant to give customers a better understanding of the brand goals and build community with other customers. Below are a few of my blogs for the website pages that I wrote and designed.

  1. Queerness in Media: ‘Love Lies Bleeding’

  2. What is Queer Coded?

  3. Being a Better Ally

  4. The History of the Word Queer

  5. Queer Date Night with Both& Apparel

Both& Apparel Blog


With an audience of over 100,000 alumni, students, and faculty members, the LAS newsletter represents the College of LAS digitally and via “The Quadrangle” magazine. Below are some of my stories for the LAS News.

  1. U of I astronomers lead ambitious survey with the James Webb Space Telescope

  2. The Olympics as you’ve never seen them

  3. Professor helps bring a nearly lost film back to life

  4. Greater understadning leading to greater opportunity

  5. Economics student launches award-winning tech startup

University of Illinois- LAS News


Creative Writing Piece submitted and accepted to be added to the curriculum of CMN 432- Gender Communication at the University of Illinois.

‘Dressed to Suppress” (2024) is an auto ethnography weaving personal narrative into cultural comment of the ever developing relationship between gender and sexuality.

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