Work With Me

Let’s make space for stories that feel like home.

Whether you're a tourism board, lifestyle brand, boutique hotel, or wellness retreat, The Southern Weekender offers intentional storytelling that celebrates Southern culture through a unique, modern, and distinctly Black lens.

Rooted in travel, culture, and lived experience, I create content that resonates with women who move with purpose. From curated weekend itineraries to brand storytelling and destination features, I help bring places and products to life with warmth, clarity, and cultural depth.

Services Offered

Sponsored Content & Brand Campaigns

I create story-first content that weaves your destination or offering into a soulful, well-paced travel narrative. Always authentic and engaging.

Includes:

  • Blog features with original photography & SEO optimization

  • Email newsletter integration

  • Social media content and Pinterest graphics

  • Optional strategic consulting to help you shape a campaign that speaks to Black Southern women travelers

Travel & Experience Consulting

Need help designing an itinerary, press trip, or immersive campaign experience? I bring a deep understanding of what intentional, modern travelers are looking for and how to connect, making them feel understood and catered to.

Services can include:

  • Curated weekend or regional itineraries

  • Black-owned business inclusion and representation strategy

  • Voice-of-customer consulting

  • On-the-ground storytelling or live coverage

  • Post-trip editorial content and photography

Content Strategy & Copywriting

I work with select brands and creatives to shape language that aligns with purpose, not pressure. Whether you're refreshing a brand, launching a product, or building a travel platform of your own, I bring editorial sensibility with cultural fluency.

Services include:

  • Brand messaging and tone-of-voice development

  • Website, email, and blog copy

  • Newsletter writing or strategy

  • Captions and content calendars for Instagram or Pinterest

As Seen In

My travel stories, interviews, and insights have been featured across national news outlets, lifestyle publications, and tourism campaigns. Highlights include:

  • Visit Sanya's Facebook – Top 20 Finalist, Hearts to Hearts Global Campaign

  • News on the 6, PR Newswire, Asia Pacific Newswire – Campaign coverage

  • USA Today – Feature on road trips

  • The Oregonian Overseas – Interview: Life Abroad as an English Teacher

  • Feet on the Map – Blogger roundup feature

  • Queen Park Social, CLT Tales – Event and travel content

Featured Photography

My travel and lifestyle photography has been featured by:

  • Jetset Tribe

  • Eat Work Play CLT

  • World in 360

  • South End Charlotte

  • The Cowfish Sushi Burger Bar

  • Black Wednesday Social

  • Château Élan Winery & Resort

  • Reservations.com Past Collaborations

Brand and destination partners I’ve worked with include:

  • Visit Sanya (China)

  • Explore Georgia

  • Memphis Travel

  • Jekyll Island Club Hotel

  • Château Élan Winery & Resort

  • The Ivey’s Hotel (Charlotte)

  • The Inn at Middleton Place (Charleston)

  • Park Cafe Charleston

  • Soho South Cafe

  • Reservations.com

  • Dr Pepper

  • Lo & Sons

  • Soto Sake

  • San Diego Hat Company

Let’s Collaborate

If you're building something rooted in a real place, culture, and experience—let’s talk. I typically book 4–6 weeks out for full campaigns and accept short-form projects on a case-by-case basis.

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Or email me directly at hello@thesouthernweekender.com