CREATIVE DIRECTOR | DUNCAN CHANNON | portland, oregon | 2021-PRESENT

I boomeranged back to Duncan Channon because it is a rad agency. I’ve led creative for Facts Fight Fentanyl, Horizon Organic, Kona Big Wave, SF CASA, SweeTARTS, Black Forest, and the covid vaccine education effort for the California Department of Public Health.

ASSOCIATE CREATIVE DIRECTOR | SWIFT | portland, oregon | 2018-2021

Just like everyone else, I bailed on California and moved up to the leafy land of ports. Joined up with social agency Swift, where my many years as an extremely online individual came in handy–as did my past experience on big campaign ideas and brand platforms: I was the lead writer for the Carter’s brand campaign and developed the Umpqua Bank brand platform. But that’s not all. Lots of social for Google, lots of new business. You know, this and that.

Clients: United Nations, Carter’s, Oshkosh, Umpqua, Google, PayPal, Wikipedia, New Biz

FREELANCE CD | COPYWRITER | SAN FRANCISCO AREA | 2017

After many years at Duncan Channon, this baby bird grew a pair (of wings) and left the nest. Why? Because my career had entered its adolescence and decided it was time to move out, make its own rules, see the world, and dye its hair purple. Plus write poetry on the side. I told my career I would be very disappointed in it if it started smoking. It mostly obeyed.*

Clients: IDEO, Huge, Duncan Channon, Swift, Elbow, Wit Design, Linus, *plus a fun unlaunched cannabis brand

ASSOCIATE CREATIVE DIRECTOR | Duncan channon | SAN FRANCISCO | 2015-2017

I was lead writer and concept-mommy (like, the idea was my brainchild) on one of the first anti-vaping campaigns in the country for the California Tobacco Control Program. (We won an Effie! Eff yeah!) Also led John Muir Health and several new biz wins. *Cracks knuckles*

Clients: Grubhub, California Tobacco Control Board // StillBlowingSmoke.org, Kettle Brand, John Muir Health

SENIOR COPYWRITER |Duncan channon | SAN FRANCISCO | 2014-2015

I guess I was doing something right because I was promoted and trusted to make more advertising. Made many many campaigns. Produced like mad. TV/OOH/Digital/Social/Websites/Experiential/Branding, yadda yadda yadda. Worked on five winning pitches over two years. Won awards. Was so rad.

Clients: California Tobacco Control Program, Formula X for Sephora, HomeAdvisor, John Muir Health, Kat Von D Beauty, Kettle Brand, Marc Jacobs Beauty, Stride Rite, Tahoe South

COPYWRITER | Duncan channon | SAN FRANCISCO | 2011-2013

I was licensed to practice poetry in all 50 states and had published two novels, but was a babe in the woods when it came to copywriting. But the oddballs at Duncan Channon decided to take a chance on me, and it worked out quite swimmingly! Speaking of swimming, they threw me into the deep end and I got a ton of experience not only concepting, but presenting and producing my ideas. I also had a wonderful AD partner who had gone to official ad school so she taught me how to pretend I knew what I was doing. Chef's kiss.

Clients: Adobe, Blurb, John Muir Health, Stubhub, Tahoe South, Glasses.com

JOBS I HAD NO BUSINESS PERFORMING | Wieden+Kennedy, BBH | Portland + NYC | ANCIENT HISTORY

Somehow these advertising folks decided to hire me in their accounting department, even though I was fresh outta college with a creative writing degree. Ha! I started in the Portland office on media billing, then was offered a gig in the NYC office to do production billing. They trusted me with a calculator. I proved worthy. I got to move to New York and be young there. It was exciting. An opening in the print production department materialized and I jumped all over that. Luckily, even though I knew exactly nothing about print production, I had the support of a lovely team who was willing to take me under its wing.

In a rite of passage, I was eventually laid off, but then, then! BBH hired me! My mission of sneaking into the ad industry under cover of night was complete.