Strategizing and creating engaging historical content for multiple platforms and settings

Looking for someone to:

  • Create a website, online exhibition, digital archive?
  • Develop an in-person exhibition?
  • Write a brochure of sites in a neighborhood?

Not sure what medium will engage your audience?
I’ll work with you to figure it out.

As a versatile storyteller who has mostly worked in smaller institutions, I thrive in figuring out the right medium and developing the right content to engage the target audience. I start by helping you develop the outcomes you’d like your audience to come away with, and then help you build from there.

Sample Projects

Exhibitions
Digital Platforms
Publications
Programs
All Projects
Two green exhibition graphic panels, with the title "Whose stories are preserved? Whose are lost?"

“Pass the Story On” exhibition

I led the effort to create the Folger Shakespeare Library’s exhibition Pass the Story On: Shakespeare’s First Folio at 400. The exhibition was the culmination of a collaborative 8-month exhibition development effort to display and interpret a Shakespeare First Folio (first edition of Shakespeare’s collected works) at DC Public Library, and was part of a larger cross-institutional “Searching for Shakespeare” initiative.

A man standing in front of 3 large graphic panels, each containing four historic images plus text.

Ford’s Theatre Site History Projects

During my nearly 9 years at Ford’s Theatre, I collaborated with colleagues to augment research on the site’s history and repurpose that content into programs and resources for different audiences.

A man places a vinyl wrapper over a museum display sign.

Re-Interpreting a Murder Weapon

I led an effort to create new in-person and online interpretive signage for John Wilkes Booth’s murder weapon, to bring interpretation away from a true crime focus toward questions of political violence and memorialization.

Header of a website called "Remembering Lincoln." A collage of images of documents with the overlaid text "Explore how people responded to Lincoln's assassination."

Remembering Lincoln Digital Collection & Programs

Ford’s Theatre Society hired me as project manager for a digital repository of responses to the Lincoln assassination, Remembering Lincoln. After the site’s launch in early 2015—in time for the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination—I led efforts to augment the collection and repurpose the content to engage broad audiences in different ways.

A view onto a stage in a recreated theater from the 1800s, including a U.S. flag to the right and fancy Victorian furniture and curtains.

Ford’s Theatre on Google Arts & Culture

I led the effort to bring Ford’s Theatre onto the platform Google Arts and Culture, allowing people around the world to take a virtual tour of the historic site, learn about its past, and explore its collection.

Website header, showing the words "Lincoln's Assassination." Includes an image of a man shooting another man while two women scream and another man tries to stop the shooter.

History Content on Ford’s Theatre Website

When Ford’s Theatre redid its website in 2016, we rethought how to engage website visitors in the story of the Lincoln assassination and Ford’s Theatre as a historic site. I led efforts to rethink our web-based historical storytelling and subsequently build a series of 10 webpages.

A man leading a walking tour, gesturing to a historic brick building.

JHSGW Alexandria Walking Tour

To accompany the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington’s Northern Virginia outreach efforts and a Civil War exhibition that traveled to Alexandria’s history museum, I created a walking tour of Jewish sites in Old Town Alexandria.

A poster exhibition mounted on several portable walls.

JHSGW Civil War Online & Poster Exhibitions

When an exhibition on Jewish life in Civil War Washington proved too unwieldy to travel to many venues, I led efforts to create a poster version and an online version.

A brochure titled "Downtown Jewish Washington," produced by the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington and its Lillian and Albert Small Jewish Museum. The brochure includes a picture of facades of late 1800s buildings, along with a background of a map. A quotation says, "The neighborhood was our whole life," stated by Albert Small in a 1982 oral history. The brochure's tagline says, "Learn more about this historic, continually changing neighborhood in the heart of our nation's capital!"

JHSGW Downtown, Alexandria, Arlington Cemetery Brochures

After years of offering successful walking tours, the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington sought to share Jewish history in downtown Washington, Old Town Alexandria, and Arlington National Cemetery more widely. I led creation of printed brochures.

An exhibition panel called Gold and (Quick)Silver, describing the process of extracting gold from ore.

Gold Mining Camp Museum at Monroe Park

I developed content for interpretive signage and sourced images and music for a recreated Depression-era gold mining camp.

A museum exhibition featuring large photographs, graphic panels, and an interactive table.

Howard Baker Center Exhibition

I developed content for a 2,500 square foot exhibition on the life of Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr.; Tennessee politics; and the functions of U.S. government.

An exhibition graphic panel in front of a wooden fence and a log cabin.

Accokeek Foundation Interpretive Signage

I developed content for outdoor interpretive signage at the Accokeek Foundation’s lands at Piscataway Park, including the National Colonial Farm, the Foundation’s Ecosystem Trail, and Visitor Center.

An exhibition graphic titled "Life at the Blockhouse," in front of a picture of 1700s militiamen in front of a log of a blockhouse. A basket and an iron pot is displayed at front.

Wilderness Road Blockhouse Visitor Center Exhibition

I served as content developer for a small visitor center providing context for a reconstructed Blockhouse where Daniel Boone’s Wilderness Trail began in southwest Virginia.