I did not go to graduate school to study business. As I got my Master’s in Rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University, I noticed all these successful-looking people across the street and asked myself, “why not take a course at the Tepper School of Business? I won’t be here for long, and what could hurt about a little interdisciplinary experience?”
That experience primarily taught me that I am so glad I did not enroll business school.
Immediately, I realized my classmates pursuing their MBAs had totally different skillsets — totally different brains, even — than I did. They wielded powerful tools: a strong instinct for cost-benefit analysis, a lexicon of finance acronyms, an almost supernatural sense for opportunities to profit, and more.
But every project was (thankfully) a group project, and I soon learned that these entrepreneurially minded soon-to-be business leaders saw a lot of value in my writing. Charts and timetables consumed their worlds; paragraphs and pages consumed mine. Together, however, we passed and got our degrees. From that experience, I realized that it takes all kinds of minds to build a business, charitable organization, or brand. And indeed, it takes a lot of writing.
This is the origin story of Cali Writing Services
Since then, I’ve brought that same high-value, collaborative writing and interdisciplinary curiosity to business and nonprofit leaders across not just the U.S., but the world. I’ve primarily written fundraising content for nonprofits, whether they’re engaged in international advocacy, youth development, the arts, racial justice, or any number of important causes.
This heterogeneity has put my writing in front of a U.S. President, international diplomats, celebrities, billionaire philanthropists, and hundreds of thousands of others. I’ve given a voice to the scrappiest local groups and the biggest brands in the sector, and I’ve certainly helped a few rickety ships raise the funds they needed to stay afloat.
Whatever your mission is, however big you are, whoever you’re fundraising from — you need a lot of writing to do it. Maybe you’ve got writing skills, but your time is certainly better spent on the other objectives you’re juggling.
But me? I’m all writing and all editing, all the time. I’m here to bring my skillset to yours, leverage that collaboration, and do what we need to do.
Let’s achieve our mission together.