I am a business communicator. The daughter of a journalist, I have always enjoyed a passion for language and words. Speaking French and Mandarin Chinese fluently gives me heightened awareness of the ambiguities, double meanings, and just plain bad writing prevalent in the business world. I address these problems with a house style of direct and confident communication. And I bring a sophisticated, global sensibility to every project.

I have worked in corporate and marketing communications since 1999. I was previously the director of corporate communications for investment management firm Payden & Rygel and for commercial real estate firm Insignia/ESG. I now specialize in the investment management industry, but I'm an all-rounder who loves to write about every type of business. Here is my firm’s client list.

I began my career in Hong Kong after earning a degree in Asian studies from the City University of New York in 1983. As a China market specialist with the Hong Kong offices of Banque Paribas and the First National Bank of Chicago, I helped U.S. and French multinational corporations make their first direct investments in the then unknown China market.

Throughout the 1990s I commuted between Los Angeles, Beijing, and Tel Aviv, completing projects for Institutional Investor's conference division and managing a consumer products project for renowned Israeli investor Shoul Eisenberg. I am also a freelance cultural journalist specializing in dance. My essays and reviews have been published extensively in the South China Morning Post, Long Beach Press Telegram, Los Angeles Downtown News, La Opinion, and the Los Angeles Times.

The association for graphic designers published a fun professional profile of me in early 2007.

My technique for effective business writing is conveyed in a short course: Guiding Principles to Make Text Communicate & Zing.