I started doing this at eight years old.
My father owned a tour company in Western North Carolina. I grew up on the buses — literally grew up on them, taking them around the world, watching him solve other people’s problems before they noticed there was a problem. That’s the whole origin. Not a hobby that turned into a career. A childhood.
In 2000 my dad and I went around the world, eastbound. Two weeks of it were on the Trans-Siberian from Moscow to Beijing — stopping at Lake Baikal, then Ulaanbaatar, then a lot of hours watching a continent go past a window. I was eighteen.
That’s the trip that sent me back. I studied in Beijing my junior spring and minored in Chinese. And then west — ten years in Northern California, which is how I know the Pacific Northwest and most of the wild parts of that half of the country.
My dad, working. I’m the one in the red dress.
Then years of marketing and partnerships at Lucasfilm and AMC Networks — a polite way of saying I spent a decade in rooms where two companies wanted different things and somebody had to make it work for the person at the end of it.
I'm good at connecting the dots for people, in service of the customer experience. It used to point at brand partnerships; now it points at your two weeks in September.
I'd rather show you the mechanics than describe my philosophy.
- A proposal in ten business days
- From your completed intake. You won't have to ask where it is.
- Three hotels, maximum
- One per city. I'm editing for fit, not handing you a list to sort.
- Three rounds of revisions
- So you can change your mind without a negotiation.
- A confirmation pass, thirty to forty-five days out
- Anything that moved, moves back now rather than at the airport.
- Your documents two weeks before you go
- Every confirmation, every contact, and an escalation plan with names on it.
In June 2026 Fora put me on the advisor panel at its LGBTQ+ Travel Summit in New York — “Building a Successful LGBTQ+ Niche.” Four of us, in front of a room of other advisors, on how you actually do this well.
I mention it because “I work with queer travelers” is easy to put on a website and harder to be asked to teach. If you’re going somewhere that takes some thinking about, I’ve done that thinking, and you’ll get a straight read rather than a brochure.
The Standard, New York.
No call required to start. The form tells me enough to tell you whether I'm the right fit.