I believe words shape worlds.

They carry values across generations, give meaning to places, foster communities, shape institutions, and help people imagine who they are – and who they might become. That conviction is the thread connecting everything I do.

It has found expression in many forms: as a writer, editor, geopolitical and foreign policy analyst, and university lecturer. The disciplines may have changed. The conviction has not.

Today, I work across writing, editorial, and strategic advisory, helping brands, institutions, and publications articulate who they are and the role they play in culture. I am also the founder and editor-in-chief of The Loggia, a written salon exploring culture, design, place, craft, and the art of living well, and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Independent Women’s Forum – work that continually reinforces my belief in the extraordinary power of words and stories to shape identities, institutions, and societies.

I am the author of China and Africa: How Africans and Their Governments are Shaping Relations with China, an outgrowth of my PhD in Politics at the University of Oxford; a contributing editor at The New York Sun; and a contributing writer for the Washington Examiner. My essays, features, and interviews have appeared in Monocle, The National Interest, The Hill, Axios, CNN, and elsewhere.

Across every publication and project, I explore how ideas take shape through language and design, and how they come to influence the way people think, live, and flourish.

My work is to help those ideas find enduring form.