The beginning of the new Millennium, the year in which I published my first magazine articles, also meant the launch of Text and the City. Under this name, I have written numerous interviews, reports, columns and (Dutch and English) articles for numerous media outlets. (The Press, Esquire, esta, Holland Horizon, Reader’s Digest and Rush on Amsterdam to name but a few.)

I was raised by an English father and a Dutch mother in Groningen (The Netherlands), obtained my degree in Journalism in Utrecht in 2001 and decided to also use my bilingual background to my teaching advantage in 2015 (because I felt the need to help professionalise English language teaching at Dutch Primary Schools). The teacher training company I co-founded with Bianca Timman, Little Acorns, is dedicated to this purpose to this day.

Through the years, Text and the City has specialised in content strategy. My associative and conceptual way of thinking allows me to not only come up with fetching editorial concepts, but also create strategic plans for how to distribute content best – making use of all the available publishing platforms. Having built up this expertise during the last two decades, the plan is to put it to good use and perfect it during the next two. At the bare minimum.

Interested in what I’m busy with at the moment? Apart from the above, I’m also the Press Officer of the Royal Dutch national library. The website can be found here.