Work Samples

Writing about the arts

Writing about flamenco arts

Current websites

Scholarly articles published about flamenco (a book purchase or library access is required to view these book chapters)

Blog posts published about flamenco – archived articles

Writing for video production in 2020

Career Path

After earning a B.A. in Mass Communications at LSU in 1995, I began a career in journalism as a producer and assignment editor for television stations in South Louisiana. Along the way of covering issues, such as politics, property taxes, and environmental protection, I earned awards for Best Newscast and Best Website at WWL-TV, the CBS affiliate in New Orleans. I leveraged my television and web production experience at weather.com, where I worked as content producer and product manager, earning a national award for our coverage of tornado preparedness.

I gave up full-time work in the early aughts to pursue writing as a freelancer, thinking that I could publish articles about my experiences in Spain while studying flamenco. To my surprise, more people wanted to hire me to perform and teach flamenco than to write about travel in Spain.

In 2004, I co-founded Jaleolé, a blog about flamenco that helped define the landscape of the art form in Atlanta in hopes that it would benefit my artistic practice. Besides writing countless articles for the blog, I managed a team of volunteer writers and established marketing partnerships with major institutions in the metro area, at times writing for them, as well as Jaleolé. The next year, I became a teaching artist, writing study guides for K-12 schools, and then I took a position as an adjunct instructor at Emory University, all the time teaching flamenco in the classroom.

I established the production company called Berdolé in 2012, leveraging my writing experience to create press releases, biographies for artists, and program notes for concerts. I continue that work as Executive Director of A Través, the only 501c3 devoted to flamenco arts in the state of Georgia.

I serve as co-chair of the Writing Committee for DanceATL, a service organization supporting dance in metro Atlanta. In taking that position I have suspended my role as writer for the group’s newsletter, Promenade. Instead, I lead production and coach new writers who are learning to cover dance and the arts.

With the completion of a master´s degree in Spanish in 2017 at Georgia State University, I began publishing scholarly articles. I write about my research in flamenco through the lens of the avant-garde, math, and the use of the arts to teach curriculum in K-12 classrooms. 

As I reflect on my pathways through literary arts and performing arts, I realize that I keep to a common ground. My production is guided by deadlines, teamwork, and an insatiable thirst to know more.