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Most people call me Carrie but I was born Carmel and will answer to either. I also answer to “Sorry?” and “Oi!”.

From Ireland, I live in Berlin, Germany, where people pay me to put words in the right order. I also run the Berlin Content Meetup and a small mentorship programme called Leg Up.

My work and I have appeared on paper, online, and on air courtesy of the BBC, World Cinema Fund, Salon, Blinkist, TNW, Exberliner, Climatiq, Berlin Startup Jobs, Silicon Allee, Ada, nilo, Newstalk, and Visual Verse, as well as many others.

I am currently taking on freelance commissions. You can hire me to write, to edit, or to help you draft your content strategy. Get in touch!

A selection of recent work

Journalism

• The mind-bending mirrors behind advanced technology — BBC

• Why France’s start-up champion has struggled abroad — BBC

• Can German engineering solve the challenges of fusion? — BBC

• The firms that want to test menstrual blood — BBC

• Which European nations are winning the heat pump race? — BBC

• The tiny diamond sphere that could unlock clean power — BBC

• Life in a matriarchy is much sexier — Salon

• Fight or flight aren’t your body’s only responses to danger – Salon

Content

• Freelancer how-to guides — Goose

• Moving to Berlin guides — Berlin Startup Jobs

• Healthcare editorials – Ada Health

• Blinkist magazine — Blinkist (while in-house)

Copywriting

• Mika (cancer care)

• TES (green energy)

• Senvo (logistics)