Senior Content Designer by day, Southern Gothic writer by every other hour—over eight years turning content design chaos into systems that scale and a lifetime shaped by an accent that sounded weirdly thin in Mississippi but as thick as a Gump in New York City.
During my time in tech, I've been branded resilient.
It's an adjective we seem to give to quiet women, those comfortable wading through the waiting. What is resilience, I suppose, but patience that hurts? These days I split my resilience between the unforgiving cursor of my fiction and content design work—writer's block doesn't care what writing I'm writing.
Off the clock, it's my husband, our elderly, fluffy cat, and me—aggressively lint-rolling the cat hair off the velvet couch.
Primary content designer for Peloton's current ecosystem.
Became the Content Design Accessibility Lead nobody assigned — closed 29 bugs and 189 tasks against WCAG/EAA compliance, then wrote the checklist so the practice would outlast the project.
The bugs closed. What actually changed was accessibility becoming somebody's job before anyone assigned it.
Rebuilt the information architecture for AI glasses settings and wrote the governance so new settings wouldn't recreate the mess.
The number moved. What actually changed was who got to decide a setting was a setting.
Reframed the wrist wearable's setup as a single "Choose Your Own Adventure" screen, governed as a reusable pattern rather than a one-off fix.
Three other device teams didn't adopt the screen. They adopted the decision it made for them.
Short-form flash memoir: small, sharp fragments of memory, observation, and whatever refuses to leave me alone.
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