Writer and Musical Creator

Looking for a writer?

                          … a producer?

Looking for a writer?

… a producer?

I am a multi-disciplined writer, musician, and producer. My writing experience spans journalism, scriptwriting, grant writing, research writing as agenda design, and event production. Subject emphases include DEI, trade workforce issues, digital divide, various topics in tech, and arts reporting. I am also open to contract work and collaboration as a guitarist, vocalist, cellist, composer, or producer in music or film-related works. 

Experience

Co-Founder & Managing Editor at Worldview Media & Music, November 2025-Present

  • Serve as a founding member, helping design the organization’s core focus, structure, and long-term direction.
  • Support strategy and high-level leadership within organization departments (2026 Launch).
  • Manage the organization’s publication, Worldviews, a publication highlighting artists’ stories, perspectives, ideas, and creations. 
  • Conduct interviews with creatives and write articles for digital and collective releases.
  • Edit all team and freelance contributed articles. 

Editorial Content Manager & Conference Producer, Broadband Nation, Feb. 2024-Present

Editor:

  • Write and run the organization’s Learning Center, providing editorial resources and expert insight for the industry’s current and prospective broadband workforce.
  • Execute interviews and research to prepare original investigative and informational content. 
  • Travel site locations and industry events to film workers and reps within the industry, such as ‘day-in-the-life’ videos of technicians or national competitions. 
  • Speak at industry event panels and round table discussions.
  • Work on the parent company’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) team to develop resources, workshops, and engagement for fostering internal and external inclusion. 
  • 2025 Eddie & Ozzie Awards Finalist for Best Series of Articles category, People Behind Broadband, a series of articles covering trade workers of the industry.

Producer: 

  • Write and design the session agenda for Broadband Nation’s annual flagship expo, gathering public and private sector players over internet infrastructure policy, deployment, access, community impact, and more. 
  • Conduct research, coordination, and outreach to gather 100+ merit-based speakers for placement in relevant and key discussions within the industry.  
  • Run on-the-show organization for all sessions and speakers. 

Managing Editor and Grants Manager at Free Music For Free People, May 2020-2025

  • Write artist feature articles, conduct artist interviews for individual pieces and collective releases for FM4FP’s publication, the denver underground. 
  • Lead funding initiatives/grant applications (Redline INSITE Fund Grant Recipients 2021-22, Denver Advancement Fund Grant Recipients 21-22) to fund collective releases like Black Artist Matter and Otherhood, Queer Conversations, and the denver underground: Latinx Edition.
  • Edit other journalist intern’s articles and help in the editing process for collective releases. 
  • Work with the project producer on magazine distribution, event coordination & execution, and more.

Freelance editorial contributor and ghostwriter at various publications, February 2023-February 2024

  • Pursue various assigned stories covering various beats like cloud technology, AI, diversity & inclusion, sustainability, telecom, streaming, and more. 
  • Execute interviews and research to prepare original investigative content. 
  • Travel to events as assigned for on-location stories and analysis pieces.
  • Ghostwrite research papers across several intersecting indsutries like healthcare and technology. 

Contract Grant Manager at Burning Through Pages,  February 2022-February 2024

  • Pursue various assigned stories covering various beats like cloud technology, AI, diversity & inclusion, sustainability, telecom, streaming, and more. 
  • Execute interviews and research to prepare original investigative content. 
  • Travel to events as assigned for on-location stories and analysis pieces.

Reporter at SDxCentral,  June 2021-February 2022

  • Write 5-8 articles weekly covering topics in telecom, digital divide, DE&I (diversity, equity, and inclusion), emerging technologies (like blockchain and the metaverse), cybersecurity and more. 
  • Execute interviews and podcast discussions with industry experts on trends, research, and challenges within the industry. 
  • Travel to various events within the technologies industry and report on live events, panels, and announcements.

 

Education

Bachelor’s in Music Business & Minor in Film Writing, University of Colorado Denver 

2017-2021 || GPA: 3.95 

Tommy Clift

I am currently open to scheduling work as a contracted journalist, grant & research writer, or music producer. Please contact me here with any proposed projects or ideas, and I will be in touch promptly!