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I have managed and written articles for a Fortune 500 company’s weekly online newsletter sent to more than 50,000 employees across the world. I coordinated global writers, edited copy and designed and helped distribute the newsletter each week. I work regularly with clients in financial services on content for their website and blog. My articles have appeared regularly in The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s.
ARTICLES
Is steep yield curve signaling pain to come?
Anomaly Suggests, to Some, Investors' Fear of a Possible Downgrade for U.S. Credit Ratings; Moody's Disagrees.
The Wall Street Journal
How to play the big easing
Investors should consider buying TIPS in an environment where inflation will be stoked and the dollar will weaken.
Barron's
How This Woman-Owned Coffee Startup Scaled Her Black-History-Driven Business in 18 Months and Landed Big Retail
Jessica Taylor combined her love of coffee, history, supporting students, and educating people of color into a business that elevates Black and LGBTQ stories through specialty coffee blends.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s CO—
Redefining Esports - Balancing Brain and Body
Alumna Kristin Bergin Anderson’s company is making waves in esports, coaching professional gamers on how to be fit.
JPMorgan Chase
Green Shoots for Africa
Africa is set to benefit from new financial infrastructure that is designed to boost liquidity in its sovereign debt and attract private investment into its climate-linked bonds. Can it work for Africa and beyond?
BNY Mellon’s Aerial View magazine
Essay: Foster children face a tough journey - but one simple, household item can make it better
Children in foster care often transfer their clothes and personal items in big trash bags or even flimsy plastic grocery sacks. The problem isn’t trivial, even considering the other, monumental challenges these children face.
The Houston Chronicle, Op Ed Section
Algorithms for Hiring: Bias In, Bias Out
There’s a better way to make algorithms more fair in dealing with race and gender.
UT McCombs School of Business
SEC commissioner Hester Peirce is not a fan of interventionist approaches
“Sometimes you have to allow some immediate pain in order to have a system that’s more resilient.”
MIT Sloan
From a Global Bank to a Global Charity
Alumnus Duncan Ross has worked to shift the model of helping street-connected children.
JPMorgan Chase
A Little Good Goes Farther Than You Think
People are touched by small kindnesses and led to greater generosity, research shows.
UT McCombs School of Business
Putting it all together
Independent financial advisors use a holistic approach that can help clients align their wealth with their values.
The Wall Street Journal Custom Content
Blockchain
NFTs can transform loyalty: Here are 6 things brands should know.
Mastercard
New passions, new purpose for former Senior Country Officer of Chile
Vicente Monge Alcalde is helping underprivileged Chilean children with cancer in memory of his daughter, Verito, who died of the disease in 2010.
JPMorgan Chase
Cutting Edge
How Rice transformed an aging Sears building to create an innovation hub that could help make Houston the next Silicon Valley.
Rice Business
The Way We Work
The pandemic turned the 9-to-5 office work model on its head — and caused record numbers of people to re-evaluate their approach to work altogether.
Rice Business
The OWLS - 20 years of innovating and disrupting with the RBPC
The OWLs have invested nearly $4 million in over a dozen companies, with members also serving as advisors and mentors to burgeoning companies.
Rice Alliance
Auditing Committees Hire Handsome Partners
Does your audit committee lack Big Four experience? They’re more likely to select an outside auditor for their good looks.
UT McCombs School of Business
How Images Get Consumers to Time Travel
First-of-its-kind study looks at visual entropy’s connection to buying behavior.
UT McCombs School of Business
Innovation
This chef found creativity and a new business in the middle of the pandemic.
Mastercard
5 Fun Ways to get Your Employees Enthusiastic About Giving Tuesday
Generate excitement around Giving Tuesday and make it a success at your company this year with these 5 ideas.
Workest by Zenefits
How to Build a Brand for the Senses
Baghriche and fellow perfumer Marie Salamagne used their talented noses to create two custom fragrances for Mastercard.
Mastercard
A pandemic fairy tale
Toni Fernandez in Palma, Mallorca has a passion for children’s literature. Here’s how his small business weathered the pandemic.
Mastercard
How to make paying rent more rewarding
Jain’s ideas about bringing loyalty to housing led him to found Bilt Rewards, a company that helps people pay for their rent digitally and earn rewards from it.
Mastercard
Shades of Gray
Rice Business Professor Amit Pazgal found that in certain situations, gray markets can actually help manufacturers and retailers.
Rice Business Wisdom
Just like old times
In an era where shopping takes seconds, some businesses survive in one place for centuries. What’s their secret?
The Houston Chronicle, Op Ed Section
Workplace Injuries Decline After Private Equity Buyouts
Companies see annual injuries per employee fall by up to 15% following a PE acquisition.
UT McCombs School of Business
The Year of the Pivot
How Rice Business alums adapted to survive — and thrive — in a time of crisis.
Rice Business
Building a Brazilian Bank
After seven years at J.P. Morgan as Brazil CEO, alumnus José Berenguer took a role he believes will transform the still highly concentrated Brazilian financial market.
J.P. Morgan
How printed stories and activities can help kids navigate tough topics
The printed page can help kids and their parents talk about challenging topics in the world around them and in their own lives.
Hewlett Packard’s The Garage
The new collaboration: How teams can connect while working apart
Teams can rise to the challenge of remote work with tools and strategies to better communicate and create from home.
Hewlett Packard’s The Garage
2021 Employee Perks to Consider
The pandemic has created a demand for certain employee perks. As an employer, here are some ideas for your company’s 2021 perks offerings.
Workest
Focusing on the Underbanked
Wole Coaxum founded start-up financial technology company Mobility Capital Finance, Inc. (MoCaFi), a mobile banking platform that helps people in underbanked communities get access to wealth building financial services.
J.P. Morgan
Employee Satisfaction Surveys Can Measure and Boost Engagement
Letting your employees give honest opinions about your workplace can help you understand where you’re succeeding and failing when it comes to employee satisfaction. Here’s how to create an employee satisfaction survey.
Workest
Small business standouts: How printed materials rise above the digital clutter
Unique and creative print pieces are a powerful way to break through the influx of ads, alerts, posts, and emails customers receive.
Hewlett Packard’s The Garage
Playing offline: The new boom in board games
In this era of video and digital gaming, sales of low-fi, tabletop games are on the rise as more people — especially millennials — crave time socializing with friends and family away from screens.
Hewlett Packard’s The Garage
Taste Test
The restaurant business is notoriously tough. Here’s how Rice Business alumni restaurateurs are innovating — in the age of the coronavirus, and for the future.
Rice Business
A Guide to Moving Your Business to a New State
To small business owners who are planning to move their company to a new state: use this checklist to help you navigate the process.
Workest
Companies Take Risks When Making Secret Political Contributions
‘Covert’ sponsorship of an embattled nonprofit — identified by a whistleblower — drove investors to sell off companies’ stock.
Medium
How Three Parents Handle Allowances for Their Kids
Depending on your own childhood experience, current financial situation and what your kid already knows about money, broaching the topic of allowances can be a very complicated thing.
Marcus By Goldman Sachs
Startup Speculation
Used in more than 78 million pelvic exams and procedures in the U.S. alone each year, the speculum — known for its cold, uncomfortable, duck-billed design — hasn’t been revamped in more than a century.
Rice Magazine
Small businesses tackle big retail changes
Store owners are finding new ways to connect with customers and create new opportunities, online and off.
Hewlett Packard’s The Garage
Pitching it forward
42 startup teams hit it out of the park at the 19th annual Rice Business Plan Competition.
Rice Business
Dial Tone
Culture affects the way managers communicate in conference calls.
Rice Business Wisdom
2nd Act
Increasing numbers of workers are bowing out of Act I to pursue careers that offer more fulfillment and a greater sense of well-being.
Rice Business
From the Desk of: Congressional Candidate Julie Oliver
The only woman from Austin running for the U.S. House of Representatives shares her tips for how to best engage with politics.
Austin Woman
Start Your Business
An Air Force veteran lifts off with a 3D printing business.
Chase
Sculptures on Wheels
Austin entrepreneur Nao Tomii creates custom road, mountain, and city bikes by hand for adults and children.
AAA Texas Journey
Start Your Business
Meet the CEO who turned a makeup hobby into a multimillion dollar business.
Chase
Leather Goods Are Her Bag
Cheryl Schulke runs her company, Stash, in a century-old former Haynes Mattress Factory in Sealy.
AAA Texas Journey
"Like Summertime in Texas"
You know summer’s coming when local farmers roll up to the Lick Honest Ice Creams kitchen in Northwest Austin to drop off bunches of cilantro and boxes of Rio Grande Valley limes.
AAA Texas Journey
Helping teenage girls find their writing 'voices'
Girls Write Now, a New York volunteer organization, meshes youth mentoring with creative writing.
The Christian Science Monitor
Out of the Fire
Texas blacksmith Todd Elrod forges everything from chimeneas for bar and restaurant patios to knives and Western spurs. And he often adds images from the local landscape.
AAA Texas Journey
Crafting Suspense
Jeff Abbott '85 is the New York Times-bestselling author of “Blame," which was recently published by Grand Central Publishing.
Rice Magazine
How You Can Become a More Digital Grandparent
The 'Virtual Grandma' author gives advice on grandparenting in the age of screens.
PBS Next Avenue
Detoxing Leadership
"We’re in an era of toxic leadership," says Claremont business professor and author Jean Lipman-Blumen.
Wellesley Magazine
Because chemo is scary enough without wigging out
After her own cancer treatment, Nancy Riviere started Wig Out, a non-profit dedicated to getting free wigs to women who want one.
Folks - A Pillpack Magazine
After nearly 40 years, Houston health care leader hangs up his stethoscope
Dr. Spencer Berthelsen championed an accountable care model of health at Houston's Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, which serves nearly 400,000 patients at 20 clinics.
The Houston Business Journal
Poole: Fed bond buying won’t help
Former St. Louis Fed President William Poole says more bond buying from the Fed won’t help the U.S. economy.
The Wall Street Journal
After 'I Do,' can this wedding dress be saved?
The Cranky Consumer tests out wedding dress preservation companies.
The Wall Street Journal
Playing the recovery card amid economic gloom
“There are unbelievable opportunities for people who know how to do their homework,” says ING’s Jim Kauffmann.
Dow Jones Newswires
Study big on weight watchers
A new report could mean more Americans are willing to work for weight loss.
Newsday
Rescuing animals suits him to a T
T-shirt maker uses profits from business to care for creatures abandoned on his East Village doorstep.
Newsday
John Diffey '66 - a leader and contributor
Diffey grew one of the country’s largest non-profit development retirements communities from $30 million to nearly $300 million in annual revenue.
Kinkaid Magazine
Shared memories
Fond recollections surround Gertz Department Store in downtown Jamaica in downtown Jamaica.
The TimesLedger
The last Jews of El Barrio
Bernard Lifschultz and Sol Kukawka are among the last of the European Jews who once worked in Spanish Harlem.
The Jewish Week
Shop cats catch more customers than mice
Snacking on oyster crackers and listening to rock music are all part of a day’s work for a select group of workers in the Big Apple—Manhattan’s “working cats.”
The Villager
The new allure of TIPS
Treasury Inflation Protected Securities gain favor as Mideast strife stokes inflation fears.
Barron's
Consumer prices soar, but TIPS still not a buy
Financial advisers say individual investors should resist the urge to jump into Treasury inflation-protected securities.
Dow Jones Newswires
Upstart battling for bodega bucks
Move over Goya black beans and mango juice. A new line of Latino products has hit Big Apple bodegas.
Newsday
Let them eat [bundt] cake
Rebecca Castellanos’ cakes aren’t bitter, but they’re mad, says the owner of MadCakes bakery in Austin, TX.
SmartMoney
WEBSITE COPY
Dana Consulting
I have edited Dana’s web content.
Rafte Productions
I wrote the copy for Rafte Productions' website.
BLOGS
The Future World of Financial Services: How Leaders Are Preparing
We wanted to explore what the next ten years in Financial Services will bring, so we spoke with CIOs from some of the world’s leading banks across the globe to discuss their top initiatives and where they think the industry is headed.
ServiceNow
Just for Kicks
Thomas Nauls talks about downtown Houston’s renaissance, the first show he fell in love with, and author Malcolm Gladwell.
Local Sun
Kickin' Off Texas' Kombucha Craze
Kickin’ Kombucha founder and Houston native Robert Lopez has big ambitions for his homegrown beverage company, but they don’t include being everywhere.
Local Sun
In Pat Greer’s Kitchen
Raw, vegan food maven Pat Greer talks about the fried, sugar-laden diet of her youth, and why she prefers raw foods.
Local Sun
It’s the Bees That Bring Us Together
Shelley Rice, known around Houston as "the bee lady," has helped hundreds of Texans start their own hives.
Local Sun
The Making of a Marchione
Musicians like Paul Simon, Mark Knopfler and Mark Whitfield have shelled out anywhere from $6,500 to up to $40,000 for the pure, smooth sound of a Marchione guitar.
Local Sun
Choosing a new CMS? 5 features to consider
An efficient CMS with the right bells and whistles can help you build your brand, grow your business and stay consistent in messaging and style.
Investis
5 must-haves for REIT marketing websites
Poorly done REIT marketing websites can turn away even the most interested investors. Maybe it’s time to give your website a tuneup
Investis
Live Q&A best practices – Part 2
Hosting a live Q&A requires some initial legwork, including fine-tuning your technology and thinking through your goals. Video is hands down the best medium.
Investis
Dana Consulting
I help to produce Dana’s blogs.
VIDEOS
Markets Hub: Renewed Housing Concerns
I appeared as an expert commentator in a Wall Street Journal video.
Markets Hub: U.S. Stocks Fall As Merck Leads Decline
I appeared as an expert commentator in a Wall Street Journal video.
MARKETING MATERIALS
I write and edit promotional emails and web copy for ECOS Paints.
