Michigan State University has been making a positive impact for more than 165 years. As a leading global university, MSU is dedicated to discovery and helping students find life-changing opportunities. I graduated from MSU in 2000 with a degree in Journalism and a cognate in Spanish. I am a trained writer and reporter who speaks both English and Spanish. As a proud Spartan, I worked full-time for 14 months as a ghostwriter on MI CARES, a major grant focused on addiction medicine. Here is some of the work I have done for my alma mater so far.

JAMA Network •

I Love You is an essay I ghost-wrote for the Journal of the American Medical Association.

"Two weeks later, twirling a cheap, gray BIC pen in my fingers, nausea wracking my body, a few of my colleagues said that I “wasn’t pulling my weight.” Too stunned to form a coherent response, I stayed quiet. Was the nausea my pregnancy or a silent seething at their behavior? My whole world had changed in a breath, and I wondered where their compassion was. To this day, I hate those pens, the gray ones..."
American Medical Association: End the Epidemic •

How Raising Her Hand Is Strengthening Our Country’s Addiction Medicine Workforce - I ghostwrote and edited this piece published by the American Medical Association.

"Board-certified Addiction Medicine Physician Cara Poland, MD, MEd, FACP, DFASAM wanted the State of Michigan to train a future generation of physicians to treat substance use disorders, but first, she realized that Michigan’s medical schools needed core faculty..."