Introducing Payments in Chat | Instagram/Meta
As part of a large cross-functional team—including brand managers from Instagram creative, UX researchers, our agency partners, legal advisors, execs, comms leads, and product marketing managers from Meta FinTech—I drafted, revised, and finalized a post for the Instagram business blog debuting our “payments in chat” feature. This announcement marked Meta’s first external-facing messaging for a payment feature that was slated to be available throughout Meta apps, changing the nature of how users would interact with businesses on Instagram.
Introducing Pocket—Better than bookmarks | Pocket/Mozilla
With guidance from the creative director, I authored a long form post evangelizing the benefits of Pocket, a bookmarking app that had recently been acquired by Mozilla to be incorporated as a feature in the Firefox browser
Journalism
My first cover story for SF Weekly. An investigation into the possibilities of digital storytelling on iOS through profiles of two local creative endeavors: Madefire, a publisher of motion books seeking to disrupt the comics mainstream and A Silent History, a unique digital-only novel.
Following the tragic suicide of Aaron Swartz, I profiled three Bay Area organizations with which he was deeply involved—Internet Archive, EFF, and Noisebridge—to discuss his legacy and their ongoing commitment to keeping online information, and its champions, free.