My Story
Black Beauty. Watership Down. Skywater.
Books like these moved me to an animal welfare career. While studying animals in literature at the Tufts Center for Animals & Public Policy, I discovered Kind News Magazine at The Humane Society of the United States. I became HSUS student outreach director and curriculum manager and board member of the Association of Professional Humane Educators. I coauthored a chapter on children's literature in The State of the Animals II by Humane Society Press and was contributing editor for Humane Activist.
It wasn't until I became a middle school teacher that went to work on Kind News editorial with its new home of RedRover. I'm now co-editor, writing and editing rescue stories, articles about pet behavior, and interviews with humane role models. I also facilitate RedRover Readers SEL-themed picture-book-based educator trainings and mentor students where I live in Western Massachusetts.
I’m a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and the Whip City Wordsmiths and take part in regular trainings, retreats, and critique groups to improve my craft.
