I research tirelessly and collaborate with clients from different industries to craft unique content. Nothing gets me as excited as helping someone get their ideas out on paper.
In reading through a recent report, I found that an astonishingly high percentage of respondents to surveys in sub-Saharan Africa believed in family planning myths regarding the spread of HIV and the use of contraceptives. This article gets to the bottom of how these beliefs come to be, who spreads them, and why they're so difficult to debunk once they begin circulating.
This is an article I had a lot of fun with. I was curious about why teens are more likely to do poorly-planned (stupid) things and wanted to find a psychological (biological and social) explanation for such behavior. To make sure the article wasn't too dry, I used pop-culture films (The Sandlot, Risky Business, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, among others) as examples of concepts I was explaining to demonstrate what's going on in a teenager's mind when they do the things they do.
This is a long-form article that I researched extensively, looking into teen pregnancy rates in developed and developing nations around the world. From there, I accessed academic journals as primary resources in order to craft an exhaustive article that shows readers what the associated costs of teen pregnancy are for the teen parents themselves, the kids born to teen parents, and the societies in which the teen parents live.
This piece came about as a result of an interview I did with a well-known Colombian actress regarding her work in community theater as well as her public campaign combatting domestic violence against women.
This post was a blog that I wrote in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013. I mixed very basic research with my own knowledge of "good vs. bad charity" to appeal to readers to think before they allowed their sympathy to drive them to donate goods that would lead to more problems than solutions.
This post was a blog that I ghost wrote for Flash Academy about the keys to attaining language fluency. I drew on my own experience in learning various languages in addition to light research to compose this piece.
This article was a blog post on the importance of technology in education that I wrote for Ed Tech Review, a community of and for everyone involved in education technology.
This article was the first of three posts I wrote for an Environment and Social Governance (ESG) Consulting Firm that I worked with in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It came in the run-up to the 2015 COP21 Climate Action conference in Paris and was the result of extensive research conducted into sustainability reporting trends and international climate action disclosures.
This article was the second of three posts I wrote for an Environment and Social Governance (ESG) Consulting Firm that I worked with in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It came in the run-up to the 2015 COP21 Climate Action conference in Paris and was the result of extensive research conducted into sustainability via the Circular Economy, supply chain resilience, and stakeholder engagement best practices.
This article was the third of three posts I wrote for an Environment and Social Governance (ESG) Consulting Firm that I worked with in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It came in the run-up to the 2015 COP21 Climate Action conference in Paris and was the result of extensive research conducted into female empowerment through community engagement, integrated reporting, and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This post was a synthesized version of findings gleaned from research I conducted with a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) consulting firm I worked with in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia a few years ago.
Press release for luxury brands entreprenuer.
Website copy for a bicycle tourism company with outposts in the US, Spain, and Colombia.