Strategy Intern at INNOCEAN Berlin

When I was 5-years-old, I starred in a LeapFrog TVC, but then I ninja-kicked the director’s kid in the face, he got a bloody nose, and my involuntary break from the world of advertising began. Here’s what I did during my hiatus…

Copywriting Student at Miami Ad School Europe in Berlin, Germany

  • Acquired skill: Using simplicity and truth to sell any idea under the sun

  • Takeaway: Copywriting rocks! I was born to be a strategist though.

Intern→Associate at M Strategic Communications & RK Strategies in Los Angeles, USA

  • Acquired skill: controlling the media

  • Takeaway: Good strategy extinguishes fires better than water can.

Psychology Major & Creative Writing Minor at Colby College in Maine, USA

  • Acquired skill: recognizing patterns in human behavior, analyzing the research behind them, then using them for storytelling

  • Takeaway: With a bit of creativity, tension, and the right perspective, you can make someone feel emotion for just about anything.

Marketing & Communications Coordinator at EcoSwell (NGO) in Lobitos, Peru

  • Acquired skill: changing the world

  • Takeaway: There’s never a lack of resources– only a lack of creative solutions.

English Language Assistant for the Ministry of Education of Spain in Cádiz, Spain

  • Acquired skill: Engaging the disengaged with clever presentations

  • Takeaway: Kids will find out you speak fluent Spanish no matter how hard you try to hide it from them.

Above all, I learned that through listening, reflecting, and asking the right questions, I can turn curiosity, my greatest asset, into a skill. And now, 20 years later, I apologized to the director’s son, he gave me his blessing, and I’m ready to ninja-kick my way back into advertising.
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Go-To Side Quests

  • Surfing

  • Baseball

  • Electric Guitar