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 institutions, publications, and brands articulate who they are and their place 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 how they come to influence the way people think, live, and flourish.

My work is to help those ideas find enduring form.