Recent Em Dash PDX collaborators include: Expo 2020 Dubai, sustainability-focused creative agency Catalyze, global outdoors brand Columbia Sportswear, immersive experience pros Hexagram, 50-plus million member motor club group AAA and Oregon’s Portland Monthly magazine.
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Dishes That Taste Like Home - Portland Monthly Magazine
WWW Earth Hour with Catalyze Creative
Copywriting + Streaming Content Expo Dubai
San Diego Travel, Portland Monthly
Restaurants: Bring the West African Flavor, Portland Monthly
Do You Like Palm Springs? Go Soak Up All the Vibes in Ojai, Portland Monthly
Food History of Portland, Portland Monthly
Swift's "For the Women" Mentoring Project
Letter from the Editor: Hit the Road, Portland Monthly
Portland Monthly magazine
Best Restaurants: Cully Neighborhood
Best Breakfasts Issue, Portland Monthly
Throw the Perfect Portland Party - Portland Monthly
Reporting and project topics include street food, chef-owned restaurants, food systems and agritourism, off-the-beaten path and family-friendly travel, sustainability, pop culture, eclectic humans, home and industrial design, and the intersection of culture and human rights.
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Oregon in 8 Bites for AAA Via Magazine
Meet Jami Curl, Portland's Candy Queen, Portland Monthly
An Oregon Beach House Marries Old and New, Portland Monthly
Willamette Wine Concierge Brand Storytelling
Columbia Sportswear Intl. Women's Day Campaign + Engin Creative
Chef Gregory Gourdet Has A Hungry Heart, Portland Monthly
Oregon Women Changing Our State, Portland Monthly
The Spin Interview: James Mercer of the Shins
Spend a Perfect Weekend on the Columbia Gorge, Portland Monthly
Battling the X-Men of Vermin, Portland Monthly
A Scandinavian Holiday Feast, Portland Monthly
Unlikely Hiker Jenny Bruso, Portland Monthly
Think of me as Winston Wolf in Pulp Fiction for creative editing, reporting, and innovative virtual or live projects: "I fix problems."
Virtual Expo Dubai 2020 + Live@Expo
Throughout 2021 and 2022, I shaped and shared the stories of the more than 200 countries attending Expo 2020 Dubai, on the massive global event’s innovative Virtual Expo Dubai platform. I wrote and edited featured content illuminating this next gen World’s Fair’s barrier-breaking sustainability and design as well as its impactful grant initiatives.
I also collaborated with Hexagram and Hovercast to create the knowledge base for Live@Expo, Expo’s one-of-a-kind interactive livestream tour show on Twitch, YouTube and Facebook. I later joined the writing staff to pen scripts for its 100 episode run.
The show accrued more 50 million views from across the world during the six months of Expo. The project was nominated for the Producers Guild of America’s 2022 PGA Innovation Award, which recognizes the production of a noteworthy, impactful new-media program that significantly elevates the audience’s viewing experience.
Top Photo Strip Credits: (from center split image of Mathilde Aurélien Wilson’s B&W portrait and her Haitian feast) Stuart Mullenberg, Kelly Clarke, courtesy Expo 2020 Dubai, Kelly Clarke, courtesy Ojai Valley Inn, Nicolle Clemetson, Betty Turbo Illustration, courtesy Swift, courtesy Justin Bailie and Justin Hartney (Oregon Outback split image), Stuart Mullenberg (3, Akadi West African fish dish, Ae Sangasy portrait and punch bowl splash).
Second Photo Grid Credits: (starting from top row, left) courtesy AAA, courtesy Maggie Kirkland, courtesy Caitlin Murray, Michelle Bauer, courtesy SPIN magazine, Nicolle Clemetson (2, Gregory Gourdet and Andi Zeisler portraits in layout), courtesy Wet Planent Whitewater Rafting, Jack Dylan Illustration, Thomas Teal, Stuart Mullenberg, Isaac Lane Koval