I suppose I've been immersed in words and images my whole life.

I remember playing around in the art department of my dad's ad agency as a little girl, ogling the elaborate marker sets and big slanty drafting tables. Later I obsessed over yearbook layouts, and spent my after school hours writing "cheesy copy" for fun.  I went on to the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern, where I studied newspaper editing and design, paving the way for early career assignments as an editor and art director for several publications in the Mid-Atlantic. Soon my focus turned to a growing family and a growing ministry alongside my husband, Tim.  And my work with words and images grew as well.

Through the years, our family’s journey has planted us for various seasons in some extraordinary places —  Princeton, Oxford (UK), Charlottesville, Atlanta, Colorado, and beyond. For me, each season has provided new assignments to create, communicate, build, lead, and gather. From communications consulting and branding, to fine art and design, to fundraising and events, to nonprofit leadership and missions, it’s always been about telling a story, inviting people in, and using words and images to do it. What a privilege.

But whatever the season, whatever the work, I am above all wife to Tim, mother to Ellie, Jack, Peter and Liam and — before all — daughter of the King.

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. — John 1:14

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation ... And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. — Colossians 1: 15-17