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Writer · Editor · Content Strategist
Translating complex topics into compelling content for specialized and general audiences.
I’m an experienced writer and editor with a knack for turning nuanced topics — including commercial real estate and corporate debt — into accurate and easy-to-read content for both specialized and general audiences. I’ve developed stories across formats, from long-form features and newsletters to video and interactive projects.
My experience includes managing editorial calendars, collaborating with stakeholders on content strategy, leading teams of writers, and building onboarding frameworks and process documentation. I’ve worked for and contributed to publications including 9fin, Commercial Observer, DNAinfo, Patch, the New York Daily News, City Limits Magazine and the Staten Island Advance.
In April 2025, Jake Stokes was picking up his five-year-old son from his KinderCare Education daycare center in Fort Wright, Kentucky, when a teacher pulled him aside. His son had been involved in a minor altercation with another child, but the staff assured him the boy was OK.
Stokes didn’t think much of it at first. Kids get into minor scrapes all the time, and he figured if it were anything serious, the school would’ve called him immediately. But then he noticed something odd: his son was sitting indoors wearing sunglasses, something the boy never did. When he took off the sunglasses, he saw that his son’s right eye was red and visibly swollen. The staff then told him some mulch had gotten into the boy’s eye during the scuffle, but insisted there was no need to panic.
“I thought it must not be anything since I trusted their judgment,” Stokes said. “I gave them the benefit of the doubt.”
But the pain didn’t stop at home. As his son cried in agony, Stokes rushed him to a doctor, who diagnosed the boy with a scratched cornea. The doctor warned that if the scratch had gone any deeper, the five-year-old could have been partially blinded. “That’s a big deal,” Stokes said in an interview with 9fin. “Why was I not told about this?” (Read the full story here)
Derailed — Debt, glitches and lost contracts threaten transit giant Cubic
Bleary-eyed Bay Area commuters shuffling into BART stations on the morning of 18 May were met with a uniform screen of bad news on ticket machines: “Out of Service”.
The system-wide glitch left straphangers stranded and unable to reload their physical Clipper cards. Commuters scrambled to figure out how to use their phones to pay their fare, while at least one BART station agent elected to open the emergency gate to let riders in, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
What initially seemed like a minor annoyance had quickly escalated into a full-blown transit nightmare as the outage swept through every single station, paralyzing fare collection for an alarming 27 hours.
When the cause was finally determined, it wasn’t a mysterious system bug or the work of a shadowy hacker syndicate. The truth was far more mundane — and embarrassing. Cubic, the contractor hired by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to operate the fare collection system, had simply forgotten to pay an AT&T bill. (Read the full story here)
Web editor
Led a team of six reporters and freelance contributors, overseeing the production of 230+ stories per month, spanning daily news coverage and long-form features. Managed an editorial calendar to guide story development and align coverage across digital and biweekly print editions. Used audience analytics tools, including Parse.ly, to refine content strategy and contributed to record traffic growth, exceeding 1 million monthly visitors. Worked with SEO specialists and web designers on website best practices, content optimization and adding new features to the site. Built onboarding frameworks and documents to improve consistency across editorial workflow, CMS usage, and accessibility best practices.
Gary Barnett Is Suddenly Very Busy in Manhattan
If anybody thought developer Gary Barnett was done planting megaprojects in New York City, this year has proved them very wrong.
After a few, in his words, “eh” years, Barnett’s Extell Development came roaring back the past year with nary a week passing without at least some news of a project hitting the press. (Read the full story here)
Keeping It Private: Homeowners Struggle With Life on NYC’s Private Streets
Twice a week, 71-year-old Douglaston, Queens, resident Peggy Kalesis packs her trash-filled garbage cans into the back of her SUV and drives half a block from her home.
She and her dozen Stuart Lane neighbors drop their trash in front of an understanding Depew Avenue resident’s home because Stuart Lane is one of the nearly 1,000 private streets across the five boroughs that doesn’t get its garbage picked up by the city.
“It’s horrible,” Kalesis said. “We do pay taxes. We feel like we’re not getting city services.”
Private streets are owned, and tended to, by residents, homeowners associations (HOAs) or co-op boards. While they show up on Google Maps, they aren’t on the official city map so agencies won’t collect trash, remove snow, pave roads, repair street lights, fix sewer lines and more. Some have even caused issues for 911 dispatchers. (Read the full story here)
