I'm KZ — a copywriter and Associate Creative Director working across Pharma (DTC/HCP) and Consumer. I've spent most of my career writing for people who had real reasons to be skeptical: patients weighing treatment decisions, caregivers looking for something to trust, categories still earning their credibility. That's the work I care about most — finding what a brand has actually earned the right to say, and saying it well.

I'm also a Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting grantee, a Leica Women's Foto Project Awardee, and the founder of two educational nonprofits for global youth.

I’d love to hear from you.

A selection of brands I've worked with over 15+ years, across agencies and direct engagements.

Consumer

Brand development, apps, brand voice, taglines, naming, packaging, video, web, social, manifestos — concepted and written across the full range of what a brand needs to say, especially when the voice has to be built from nothing.

A quick look at my client roster shows the breadth of industries I've written for, with particular depth in beauty, health & wellness, and cannabis — plus IRYS, a new photography app built in direct response to photographers' growing dissatisfaction with Instagram.

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Pharma

Concepting, pitching, and daily support across DTC and HCP, in a category where every claim has to earn its place.

DTC: DTC: Cardiac, Diabetes, Hepatitis, Migraine, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Oncology, Primary Immunodeficiency (PI), Psoriasis & Psoriatic Arthritis, Crohn's & Ulcerative Colitis, Pulmonary (COPD), Mental Health (Schizophrenia), Rare Diseases (Spinal Muscular Atrophy)

HCP: Psoriasis (Gastro and Skin), Anemia of CKD, Migraine, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Mental Health (Schizophrenia)

I often embed directly with strategy — it's the best way to pressure-test a concept and stay tightly on brief.

Please contact me for the password to see my recent pharma work.

What's up with that extra tab in the nav—The Super Power of Me?

In addition to being a copywriter, I'm an award-winning photographer, poet, and journalist. The Super Power of Me is a platform I created to empower youth around the globe. It's been featured in The New York Times, NPR, and ABC News, and I received the Leica Women's Foto Project Award for it.

Take a look.