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Ghostwriting
Storied Details: The Dohar Blanket
Courtney Barton Journal · Written for founder
The founder’s first-person story of finding her signature textile on a moped tour of Jaipur.
The moral of the story: if you ever find yourself wandering the world in search of adventure (or your newfound textile obsession), don’t turn down the stranger on a moped when he offers you a ride. You never know what will happen—it may be the start of your next business venture, the birth of a new partnership—heavens, it might even change your life.
Juicy Tidbits from “GWYNETH”
Pop Apologists Substack, August 2025 · Written for co-hosts
A 1,200-word take on Amy Odell’s Gwyneth Paltrow biography, written in the hosts’ shared voice for their top-100 Apple Podcasts show and published alongside their interview with Odell.
It’s no secret—we ride for Gwyneth. We’re enthralled with her star-studded upbringing and we’re emotionally invested in her love life. We stand in awe of her sun-bleached, middle-parted gaze, her casually freckled cheeks, and her effortlessly refined style as she whips up Saturday “boyfriend breakfasts” for Brad (and the rest of us to drool over on IG).
Nonfiction & Editing
Reimagining Public Funding to Reflect America’s Most Diverse City
Grantmakers in the Arts Reader, Winter 2021 · Editor
How Houston reimagined public arts funding for the most diverse city in America, told by two of the leaders who rebuilt its grant system around equity. Edited for a single voice, a clear arc, and a national audience of funders.
City of Houston Civic Art Program Annual Report, 2021
Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs · Editor
A 37-page annual report and equity review, shaped from staff writing and program data into one readable narrative.
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen Discusses Human Rights at the Rothko Chapel
CultureMap Houston, October 2011 · Reporter
Coverage of Sen’s 40th-anniversary lecture at the Rothko Chapel and the lively Q&A that followed.
Treatment Engagement Using Motivational Interviewing for Low-Income, Ethnically Diverse Mothers with Postpartum Depression
Clinical Social Work Journal, 2013 · Co-author with McClain Sampson and Luis H. Zayas
Peer-reviewed research on why low-income, ethnically diverse new mothers often drop out of postpartum depression treatment, and how motivational interviewing can keep them in it.
Brand Storytelling
Houston Museum District
Brand strategy, messaging, and copy
A bold vision, voice, and story for Houston’s most visited coalition of museums, built to celebrate the district’s diversity and the vibrancy of the city it serves.
HMD is not only a destination; we’re a collective coalition. As a collective, we defy tidy categories and resist uniformity.
We are art.
We are history.
We are science.
We are contemplative; we are rowdy.
We are large;
we are small.
We are seasoned; we are fresh; we don’t look or think alike.
We are many; we are varied—but we share a singular vision, grounded in fervent devotion and unbridled enthusiasm:To celebrate Houston’s arts and culture and herald our city’s vibrancy far and wide.
Pappas Bros. Steakhouse
Brand strategy, messaging, and copy
The heritage story of a classic Houston steakhouse, from the family’s first restaurant in 1976 to its place today as a hospitality icon.
Private Clients
Nearly 20 years of speeches, remarks, and bylined writing for executives, founders, and public figures.
Confidential work; contact for more information.
Personal Essay
The Maine Thing
Errand Friend (Substack), November 2025
A personal essay on a career shift and getting your time back.
Back in August, my full-time job morphed into a contract gig. The change wasn’t framed as a layoff, but practically speaking, it’s functioned like one. It was only after the initial shock wore off that I was able to settle into one momentous fact: my time was my own again. Gone was my salary, yikes—but also gone were the constraints that came with it: required presence in the office, expectations of a green dot on Slack, a bucket of PTO days that always seemed too small. […] But all that’s beside the point, at least for the purposes of this post.
The point is, I went to Maine.
Summer Reading: 2 of 2
Errand Friend (Substack), July 2026
A love letter to Maggie O’Farrell and Elizabeth Strout, from a reader whose pre-order habit has outpaced her bookshelves.
If you're like me, you root for your favorite authors regardless of who or what they're writing about. Whether it's the interior life of a young Medici bride married off as a teenager (The Marriage Portrait) or the intersecting domestic dramas of a small coastal town (Olive Kitteridge and Olive, Again), the best writers make these corners of the world, of distant history, feel not just meaningful, but necessary.