Show Your Work: a Writer with Anxiety Gives a Talk

Ashley Johnson explores what it means to make meaning with words in an uncertain world.

Part memoir, part manifesto, Ashley considers her craft through childhood copywriting hacks, journalism, activism, and her decade writing at the world’s most-awarded design agency.

Self-deprecating and hopeful, Ashley will make the case for anxiety as a creative engine — and for optimism as the writer’s most radical tool.