TIME
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I spent five years at Time Inc. covering defining moments: the 2008 presidential race, Detroit’s nascent renaissance, BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the politics of a country reshaping itself in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
I opened Time Inc.’s Detroit editorial bureau as Bureau Chief, leading a year-long, company-wide initiative that brought together journalists from TIME, Fortune, Money, People, Sports Illustrated, and others to cover a city in crisis—from the inside. I later reported from Washington on power, policy, and business, covering Congress and the forces shaping the national agenda. My work focused on people operating inside stressed systems—and the leaders trying to fix them. That reporting took me from Chicago’s South Side to the White House and Capitol Hill, from Aretha Franklin’s table to the Gulf Coast.
In 2026, TIME invited me back to contribute two essays to a special edition tied to the release of Michael Jackson’s biopic—an opportunity to reassess one of the most complex cultural figures in modern history in an algorithmic age still chasing the blueprint he built.
That foundation continues to shape how I think about narrative, access, and consequence—and how I advise global companies navigating complexity, scrutiny, and scale: clarity under pressure, proximity to decision-making, and the ability to translate complexity into stories people trust.
