Dahna Chandler | Award-Winning Journalist | Editorial Strategist

I’m an award-winning journalist and editorial strategist with more than 20 years of experience writing for national publications, major brands, healthcare organizations, financial institutions, and mission-driven companies. The Writer’s Desk provides polished assignment-based and project-based writing support for editors, content leaders, agencies, and organizations that need senior-level judgment, reliable execution, and defined deliverables without a long consulting engagement.

Media publication editors, content managers, and communications leaders from established outlets and recognized brands come to The Writer’s Desk when they need a highly experienced writer for their bounded assignments. Those include media outlet articles and reported features; brand story writing, profiles, and ghostwritten executive bylines. I can also write higher level content, including case studies, newsletters, deeply researched reports and papers, funding narrative assets, and other narrative assets that require clarity, judgment, and polish.

You can contract for one-off assignments or a monthly series of written deliverables.

I've done this work for media outlets and brands like CountryLiving.com, Women’sDay.com, TODAY, Forbes, Yahoo!, Family Business Magazine, Next Avenue, Barn Raiser, Northern Trust, Synovus, Raymond James, Amex Business Intel, PayPal, Chime, LendingTree, The Mortgage Reports, NorthBay Health, Healthgrades, and multiple others.

You provide the communications or narrative strategy, story briefs and assignment parameters, and I create the solid, compliance-ready deliverables that take you from concept to completion on a tight timeline.

The value of my work is not simply drafting. It is senior editorial judgment—knowing what matters, what belongs, what evidence supports the point, how the material should be structured, and how to make complex information clear for the audience that needs it.

“Dahna and I have worked together on multiple projects for a financial client. Dahna has deep knowledge of the financial issues and interests of mass affluent and emerging high-net-worth people, which has made her a good fit for these projects. She is also skilled at finding academic-level data and research to support her work. And she's a strong writer who is easy and pleasant to work with. I highly recommend her for data- and research-driven financial writing, as well as any strategic content development that requires a solid understanding of your private banking and wealth management readers.”

—Lisa, Contently Managing Editor

“Dahna is a gifted writer, meticulous researcher, and a terrific communicator who has a keen knack for detail. She is an intuitive and skilled finance writer who can adapt to any brand voice while creating helpful and empowering content. I am happy to have Dahna on my contributing team!” 

—Jordan Merimee Navidar, Former Senior Content Editor at Chime

What I can write depends on your specific requirements and use cases for the editorial assets, but can include:

• Personal Finance & Small Business:
 General money management, retirement, personal insurance, residential real estate, and small business development and management—editorial content that translates complex concepts into easily understandable but nuanced reader-friendly content.
• Health, Wellness & Lifestyle:
 Women’s health, urogynecology, peri- to post-menopause, longevity, 60+ fitness, nutrition, home, sustainable luxury travel, and lifestyle topics for audiences that demand clear, respectful, accurate writing.
• Leadership Content:
 Workplace culture, executive communication, business growth, reputation and change management, employee experience, client trust, stakeholder communication, remote and hybrid work, succession planning, and mission-driven business strategy and other thought leadership for institutional leaders and their audiences.

I also offer support with research papers and reports and grant narratives. 

See the menu items for other narrative asset offerings. All assignments, projects, or initiatives are scoped individually and in writing. I can offer rush timelines and interview-heavy projects at a higher fee. 

If you have a defined media outlet, brand editorial content, or organizational research or narrative need that would benefit from my senior-level editorial expertise, contact me to get more details on how we can work together.