Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Indiana University with an M.B.A. in marketing and bachelor's degrees in journalism and business. I was editor of my high school and college newspapers (The Kirkwood (Mo.) Call and Indiana Daily Student), then worked at the St. Petersburg Times more than 15 years before coming to Poynter in 2004.
At the Times, I covered police, schools and business. Then I switched to the business side and held a variety of marketing and business analysis positions, including director of the newspaper's in-house advertising agency. I started the Times' company store. Then I returned part-time to the newsroom as a copy editor before coming to Poynter.
Social/Volunteer Organizations
I'm vice president of the Indiana University Journalism Alumni Board. I'm on the advisory committee for the Melrose/John Hopkins journalism magnet program for the Pinellas County Schools and Tampa Bay Technical High School's journalism magnet in Hillsborough County. I'm also on the advisory board for the Center for Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University. I guest teach at the JEA/NSPA conventions and Florida Scholastic Press Association conventions. I'm a former board member of the local YMCA and my older son's school PTA.
