Health care and public policy are particular areas of professional focus these days. But my work has been helpful to clients in fields from journalism and software development to manufacturing and digital commerce.

Previously, I was a teacher and scholar of English literature, specializing in early modern cultures. I received my doctorate from the University of Chicago, where I taught in the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities and in the College.

I came to Minnesota to serve on the English faculty at Macalester College in Saint Paul, where I taught courses about literature, philosophy, and ecological thought.

Most days you can find me working out of Capella Tower in downtown Minneapolis. I go home to Northeast, where I live with Vera, a black cat, and my husband Paddy, a calico man.