I created Scholar Support Services after spending most of my career on the inside of higher education — where brilliant people do important work, but too often get buried under software, systems, and administrative friction that has nothing to do with thinking or writing.
Over the last two decades, I’ve worked as a teacher, leader, researcher, and university administrator. I’ve supported collaborated with faculty at five universities, written dozens of published works, edited and prepared books and articles for publication, and handled the behind-the-scenes work that turns raw scholarship into something that can actually move through institutional pipelines.
What all of those roles had in common was this: smart, capable people were losing enormous amounts of time and energy fighting the mechanics of academic work instead of doing the work itself. Dissertations stalled because formatting systems were opaque. Journal submissions dragged on because files, figures, citations, and platforms wouldn’t cooperate. Books and grant proposals bogged down because nobody had time to manage the moving parts.
I’m the person people call when something has to get finished.
At Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, I supported more than 120 faculty across 14 programs, managing confidential documentation and production workflows for over a thousand public events every year. At the Aspen Institute’s Center for Expanding Leadership Opportunity, I worked as a postdoctoral research fellow and writing assistant, helping transform complex research into books, reports, and professional publications that could survive peer review, copyright constraints, and executive scrutiny. At City Colleges of Chicago, I built automated workflows that replaced fragile, manual processes with systems that actually worked.
Alongside all of that, I’ve spent years in creative and scholarly environments — negotiating contracts, managing copyright, coordinating teams, and helping people navigate the gap between their ideas and the structures that govern how those ideas get shared.
Scholar Support Services exists because I saw how much talent gets wasted when scholars are left alone to wrestle with tools that were never designed for how they actually think and work.
I don’t just edit text.
I help people move projects through the entire ecosystem that surrounds academic writing — from drafts and citations to templates, submission systems, publisher requirements, and institutional processes. My job is to handle the technical, logistical, and organizational complexity so you can stay focused on the thinking that only you can do.
Whether you’re a graduate student trying to get a dissertation across the finish line, a faculty member preparing a journal article or book, or an administrator shepherding complex projects through approval and publication, my role is the same: to make the nuts and bolts of academic writing easier for you.
That’s what Scholar Support Services is here to do.