A Few Stories We’ve Had the Honor of Helping Tell
Every client is different. Every story is its own. Here’s a glimpse into some of the work we’ve done together — and what became possible when the right words finally found their place.
Op-Ed · The Grio · Racial Justice & Democracy
Published in: The Grio
Written for: Fred Redmond, Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO, and Rakim Brooks, President of the Alliance for Justice
The Piece: At a moment when the Supreme Court's ethics scandals were dominating the national conversation, this op-ed made an argument that most mainstream commentary was missing: the court's crisis of legitimacy isn't just a governance story — it's a racial justice story. With consequential seats held by justices whose track records threatened the rights of workers and communities of color, Redmond and Brooks issued a clear-eyed, public demand for structural reform.
The piece framed court accountability as inseparable from the labor movement's larger mission — connecting the fate of workers' rights, voting rights, and economic justice to the composition and conduct of the court. A statement of political will from two of the most powerful voices in progressive organizing.
Role: Strategic communications writer and ghostwriter
Op-Ed · Word In Black · Labor & Racial Justice
Published in: Word In Black
Written for: Fred Redmond, Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO
The Piece: Sixty years after the March on Washington, the promises that march represented were still largely unfulfilled. This op-ed used the anniversary not for nostalgia — but for reckoning and resolve. Written for one of the country's most prominent labor leaders, it traced the through line from the 1963 march to the present-day fight for voting rights, equitable wages, and the dignity of Black workers.
The piece spoke directly to a Black audience ready to see their own history reflected back with honesty and purpose — arguing that recommitting to that unfinished work wasn't about looking backward. It was the only way forward.
Role: Strategic communications writer and ghostwriter
Op-Ed · Ms. Magazine · Women in Labor & Leadership
Published in: Ms. Magazine
Written for: Liz Shuler, President of the AFL-CIO
The Piece: When Julie Su's nomination for Labor Secretary was stalled by Senate opposition, the AFL-CIO's president needed a piece that would cut through the noise and make the stakes unmistakably clear. This op-ed — written for the first woman ever to lead the AFL-CIO — made the case for Su's confirmation with both precision and urgency.
It connected Su's record as California's Labor Commissioner to the real-world issues facing working women: the gender pay gap, childcare, workplace safety, the right to organize. Not an abstract argument for diversity — but a specific, evidence-driven case for a labor secretary who had spent her career doing exactly this work, and a direct warning about what it would mean for women if the Senate chose to block her.
Role: Strategic communications writer and ghostwriter
Op-Ed · USA Today · Solidarity & Political Organizing
Published in: USA Today
Written for: A'shanti F. Gholar, President of Emerge America, and Linh Nguyen, Executive Director of Run AAPI
The Piece: This piece did something rarely done well in mainstream media: it explored the specific, complicated, necessary work of solidarity between Black and Asian American women — two communities navigating their own experiences of racism while working toward shared political goals.
Written for two of the country's most prominent women's electoral organizers, the op-ed moved beyond feel-good coalition language and into the real terrain of shared struggle. It examined where these communities' interests align, where the tensions are, and why building authentic solidarity across those differences is essential — not just to their communities, but to the future of progressive political power in America.
Role: Strategic communications writer and ghostwriter
Op-Ed · HuffPost · Electoral Politics & Representation
Published in: HuffPost
Written for: A'shanti F. Gholar, President of Emerge America
The Piece: The argument that women of color are "viable candidates" only in certain kinds of districts has long been used — implicitly and explicitly — to gatekeep party support and limit who receives institutional investment. This op-ed confronted that myth directly, written for one of the country's leading voices in women's electoral organizing.
Grounded in real electoral data and real examples of women of color winning in unexpected places, the piece made an evidence-based case that electability isn't a fixed characteristic — it's a product of investment, support, and belief. It challenged the Democratic Party directly: if you keep waiting for the "right" conditions to invest in women of color candidates, you aren't evaluating viability. You're manufacturing it.
Role: Strategic communications writer and ghostwriter
Research Report · Labor & Arts Policy · Lead Researcher & Writer
The Project: The Beyond Neutrality Arts & Culture Project (ACP) set out to understand a striking shift unfolding across the nonprofit arts sector: since 2019, union campaigns at arts organizations have surged dramatically — rising 220 percent in private museums alone, with a parallel wave moving through professional dance companies across the country. Commissioned by the Ford Foundation and conducted in partnership with Dance/NYC, Dance/USA, and the American Guild of Musical Artists, this research sought to understand why the wave was happening, what workers and company leaders were experiencing at every phase of the process, and what the field needed to move forward.
Role: We served as lead researcher and writer on the Dance Findings portion of the project — conducting in-depth interviews with 40+ dancers, company leaders, union representatives, and philanthropists, and translating those candid conversations into a rigorous, readable report that captured the full complexity of this moment in the dance world.
The Report: The Dance Findings report examines the growing wave of unionization in professional dance — what's fueling it, how dancers and company leaders are navigating the process, and the ideas and recommendations that emerged for helping the field move through this period of transformation with greater clarity and care.
The work required both research precision and narrative sensitivity — holding the perspectives of workers and institutional leaders with equal seriousness, and rendering a multifaceted story in language accessible to dancers, funders, and organizational decision-makers alike.
Your Story Could Be the Next One We Tell Together
The details vary with every client. The through line is always the same: when you get clear on your narrative, something opens up. Conversations start. Relationships deepen. Opportunities arrive that weren’t arriving before. And the message you’ve spent years trying to articulate finally lands the way it was always meant to.
That’s what this work is about.