I write proposals that make your reviewer sit up in her chair and think, “finally, our search is over!”

I've won thousands of dollars on the strength of my proposals, from top institutions including the University of California Humanities Research Institute and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (which awarded me over $30,000).

I learned the secrets of successful grant proposals while a graduate researcher at the University of California San Diego Department of Music (a top music PhD program). There, I trained under UCSD’s grant officer, studied grant writing textbooks and analyzed successful proposals to understand what made them work. Today, I employ evidence-backed strategies—like choosing key words from the call and aligning your particular project with their general mission—to make it easy for the review board to say yes.

 I know how to translate specialized information to a general audience—something I did frequently when sharing my niche music research with interdisciplinary audiences. And I understand all aspects of the grant writing process, from ideation to pipeline to submission—tasks I handled entirely on my own for over five years.