Your clinical expertise deserves a bigger audience. Let’s put it in a children’s book.

Marlee has always loved storytelling and tends to hyper-focus on details, which made journalism a natural fit. She worked as an editor for over a decade, and, though she loved it, she nearly forgot about why she became a journalist in the first place—to write.

Her penchant for writing started at a young age. She self-published her first book in the 3rd grade called Crooks and Robbers. It was written on construction paper and tied together with ribbons (yes, she still has it thanks to her sentimental mom).

She wrote NaMOOste in 2017, but it gathered dust in her Notes app until the pandemic hit. Suddenly, she had no choice but to press pause on, well, everything, with a toddler and a newborn at home. Like many others, she re-evaluated her career and took a leap of faith, leaving her 9-5 to prioritize what matters most to her: spending more time with her family, expressing creativity and sharing meaningful stories.