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Align Your Work
with Your Values
You didn't earn a PhD to spend your career on work that drains you.
Many of us—particularly women, LGBTQ+ scholars, and members of minoritized communities—entered academia because we believed it was a place where we could pursue work that mattered. Where we could study injustice, mentor students who rarely see themselves reflected in faculty, build bridges between the university and marginalized communities.
Then reality hit. The crushing weight of unrecognized service. The constant pressure to prove you "belong." The realization that the work you find most meaningful barely registers in your promotion file.
This one-month program will help you reclaim your career.
Together, we'll reconnect with your core values, identify the strengths you've been underutilizing, and build a sustainable plan for doing more of what lights you up—without the burnout that comes from trying to be everything to everyone.
Write More,
Stress Less
Your writing shouldn't be the thing that only happens when everything else is done. (Spoiler: everything else is never done.)
Faculty life expands to fill every available hour. The emails multiply. The meetings metastasize. And your research—the thing you're supposedly here to do—gets pushed to "when I have time." Which means it doesn't happen. Which means you feel like a failure. Which makes it even harder to start.
This program breaks that cycle.
I'll teach you the concrete strategies I used to write my book and earn tenure while maintaining boundaries around my time and energy. This isn't about becoming more productive. It's about becoming more intentional so your writing actually happens, and the rest of your life doesn't disappear.
Developmental Editing
You've been staring at this draft for weeks. Maybe months.
You know something's not quite working—the argument feels scattered, the organization is off, or you're just going in circles making the same revisions over and over. You're too deep in it to see clearly anymore.
That's where I come in.
I'll read your work with fresh eyes and help you identify what's actually going on: Is your central argument clear? Is the structure serving that argument? What's working that you should lean into? What needs rethinking?
You'll get specific, actionable feedback that helps you move forward—not just vague encouragement.
Rates vary based on manuscript length. Let's talk about what you need.
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