That’s why I founded Grafon — the name comes from the Greek word for writer. I wanted to write stories that elucidate the public and help nonprofits and companies put their best self forward through writing and social media. I just never realized I could do both.

I’m a frequent contributor to Smithsonian Magazine, Teen Vogue, Poynter, Italy Segreta and Sarasota Magazine. My work has also been published in The New York Times, National Geographic, PolitiFact, Glamour, Self, The Washington Post’s The Lily, Mashable, U.S. News and World Report, Well+Good and Wanted in Rome, among others. I specialize in enterprise feature reporting and often report in Italian, with a PLIDA-certified C1 level. My January Sarasota Magazine story on the region’s changing political and social dynamics recently won a top award for in-depth reporting and, in 2021, my feature on a local environmentalist won first place profile from the Florida Society of Professional Journalists and second place feature in the circulation category from the Florida Magazine Association. I am also available for speaking engagements—I recently spoke on burnout in local news for the Independent Newspaper Group’s fall meeting.

Before starting Grafon, I was an editorial writer and audience engagement reporter for the Tampa Bay Times. Prior to that, I covered education and the environment for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

I graduated from Duke University in 2016, where I majored in Classical Languages and Medieval and Renaissance Studies. While there, I helped excavate a Hellenistic bath complex in Sicily, spent a semester in Rome and studied Victorian Literature at Oxford. To cap it all off, I wrote my senior honors thesis on depictions of Odysseus’ death in literature.