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Award-winning Freelance Copywriter, Workshop Leader, & Poet

Intentional, inspired, and invigorated by collaborating on short- or longer-term contracts for conscious, mission-driven, heart-centered businesses. That's me.

Career Progression

2019- Present

Content Creator:

Amplifies the impact of socially responsible and diverse businesses by producing compelling and memorable content. Including:

KidSnips

Pennsylvania Children's Advocacy (PennCAC)

Wright Foundation for the Realization of Human Potential

Keep It Savory Salt Co.

Nestidd

City Grange

Innovator:

Develops, manages, and facilitates transformative in-person and online writing workshops for women in Splitting the World Open and wordhaven. Creates poetry experiences for individuals with dementia in workshops called “Remembering Home.”

2013- Present

Founder:

POEMGROWN

poemgrown embraces the business of love and brings back the importance of honoring life’s occasions with a poem commissioned exclusively to stop time and mark the moment. “In a culture where ‘stuff’ comes and goes with very little thought and appreciation, it was a deeply gratifying process to work with cin and have her create something so personal and lasting,”— Rebecca Lewandowski

Awards & Recognition

INAUGURAL POET LAUREATE

Covenant Farm

Sawyer, MI

2016-2017

COMING UP TALLER AWARD

President's Committee on the Arts & Humanities (PCAH)

Chicago, IL

2008

Presented by Barbara Bush at the White House, as developer and manager of the award-winning “Words at Play” program – transitioned from a single workshop for the Chicago Humanities Festival and expanded to a 10-week series across ten Chicago parks districts with a $35K budget.

RAGDALE FELLOW

Ragdale Artist Residency

Lake Forest, IL

2000, 2001, 2002, 2008

2008

EMMY NOMINEE - VOICE OVER FOR PBS DOCUMENTARY

“From Schoolboy to Showgirl”

Los Angeles, CA

1989-1991

ILLINOIS ARTS COUNCIL GRANT RECIPIENT

Poetry
Chicago, IL

Book Publications

When I am Yes
Jack Leg Press, 2016

Looking for a Soft Place to Land
Tia Chucha Press, 1996

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS), Advertising
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

Early Career Experience

WTTW

On-Air Correspondent for “Art Beat”
Chicago, IL

2000-2002

ARC WORLDWIDE

Part-time Professional (United, Purina, Bed, Bath, & Beyond)

Chicago, IL

1996-2001 & 2006-2008

FRANKEL

Part-time Professional (Target, USPS)
Chicago, IL

1994-1996

LEO BURNETT

Part-time Professional (Hallmark, Disney, Virginia Slims)
Chicago, IL

1991-1994

MARSHALL FIELD'S

Freelance Writer
Chicago, IL

1989-1991

SPIEGEL CATALOG

Copywriter · 1987 to 1989
Copywriter Trainee · 1986 to 1987
Chicago, IL

1986-1989