Experience

Resume

Nearly 20 years building products, growing audiences, and making things across journalism, public media, and creator tools.

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Adobe

Product Manager, Audio & Video · New York · 2022 – 2025

  • Shaped AI-powered audio and video tools now used by more than 3 million creators worldwide, bringing human-centered design and accessibility to audio and video storytelling.
  • Led AI audio, retention, and accessibility for Premiere Pro, and oversaw Adobe Audition.
  • Increased creator adoption of Adobe’s audio features by 150%+ in under a year through data-informed decision making.
  • Nearly three years focused on creator and creative workflows — how creators move from raw material to finished work — across Premiere Pro and Adobe Podcast.
  • Managed the launch of the "Enhance Speech" AI audio tool — recipient of the "Best of Show" award at the 2024 National Association of Broadcasters convention.
  • Built and executed a three-year product roadmap grounded in user insights, industry trends, and customer feedback.
  • Led original retention research with data science, uncovering a 30% lift opportunity tied to product stability — findings drove a major roadmap shift.
  • Joined as MBA intern on Adobe Podcast (2022), contributing to 0–1 development of the AI speech-editing product: designed the audio content templates that address the "blank canvas" problem and still shape the product today.

WNET, New York Public Media (PBS)

Digital Content, Growth & Product Strategy Lead — American Masters · 2019 – 2022

  • Led the digital transformation of PBS’s national American Masters brand — website traffic up 30% in a year, with record social media engagement.
  • Grew newsletter subscriptions by 233% and YouTube views from thousands to millions through A/B and multivariate testing, platform-specific programming, and structured keyword research.
  • Produced podcasts, video series, and educational content across TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram for distribution by 300+ PBS stations nationwide.
  • Launched and led the digital phase of American Graduate, public media’s nationwide career-readiness initiative — a TikTok-centered strategy that also trained public television stations across the country in platform best practices.
  • Delivered strategy and performance reporting to senior stakeholders and funders, including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

WFMT & The WFMT Radio Networks

Head of Content & Acting General Manager · Chicago · 2014 – 2019

  • Promoted to program director in 2014 at age 30 — the station’s youngest in decades and, at the time, the youngest at any major-market station in the country — leading a $7M budget and 22-person team; as acting general manager, grew responsibilities to $10M and 25 staff.
  • Oversaw programming, production, and operations across radio, digital, live events, podcasts, television, and social media — 250+ live broadcasts per year — doubling listening and doubling digital engagement.
  • Curated the station’s music and on-air programming for years — a central driver of that listening growth.
  • Transformed WFMT from a legacy radio organization into a multiplatform media operation, including an overhaul of the station’s app and website.
  • Expanded global syndication by rejoining the European Broadcasting Union, distributing the Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Lyric Opera, and more to hundreds of stations worldwide.
  • Drove record-breaking fundraising by turning underused content into high-performing offers, shortening campaigns by 30%.
  • Produced nationally significant events, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s return to live radio and a live broadcast with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

WFMT — earlier years

Program Host & Producer · 2008 – 2014

  • Produced and hosted award-winning cultural journalism, newscasts, and live broadcasts.
  • Hosted and produced major international broadcast events: the Chopin Piano Competition (Warsaw), the Salzburg Festival (Austria), and the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony (Norway).
  • Launched Introductions, the country’s only live weekly series celebrating pre-college musicians — still airing 15+ years later.
  • Helped launch WFMT’s podcasting strategy in 2008 and grew its on-demand offerings.
  • On-air host for PBS pledge drives (Hamilton’s America; Prince: Rave Un2 the Year 2000; Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy).

Education

  • MBA, Columbia Business School — concentrations in finance and technology; elected commencement speaker.
  • BA, International Relations, Tufts University — summa cum laude.

Recognition

  • Crain’s Chicago Business — Notable LGBTQ Executive (2018)
  • "Best of Show," 2024 National Association of Broadcasters convention (Enhance Speech, Adobe Premiere Pro)
  • Fulbright Journalism Scholar (Germany)
  • Named one of "30 Under 30" broadcasters by Edison Research
  • Finalist, Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism
  • National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient
  • Full scholarship recipient, Center for Creative Leadership
  • ACES Certificate in Editing, Poynter Institute

Boards & Community

  • Board chair, Ensemble Dal Niente (Chicago new-music ensemble), early in the group’s history.
  • Performed with the Lakeside Pride Wind Ensemble (Chicago) and the Queer Big Apple Corps (New York) — trumpet.