One More Mark Wright

As a Maryland, USA-based writer and communication strategist, I'm on the editorial team of an industry magazine, I assist two local transportation nonprofits, and I write a variety of pieces for a local PR firm. (I'm also working on a little book. We'll see where it goes. Hope to have the draft done by summer.)

About the Name

Once upon a time, I discovered that most of the traffic to my markwright.com website was going to this famous Mark Wright in the UK. It was a search-engine black hole from which I couldn’t escape.

Then, along came this Mark Wright in Seattle, who really wanted that domain since, as a TV news anchor, he had a big audience and the branding was important to him. So, I gave it to him and pivoted to OneMoreMarkWright.

How many MWs roam the planet? No one knows, but we are legion. Wikipedia says the Romans came up with Marcus, which eventually morphed into Marc and Mark in England. Wright originated in England, where it grew to be the 16th most common surname.

It's humbling to be one dot in a vast dot-com universe of Mark Wrights.

But Wait...There's More

Protecting and healing the environment is important to me. I chair the Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake board of directors. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat about watershed protection issues.

If you've discovered the under-the-radar problem of vehicle-into-building crashes (like I did in 2008), I invite you to learn more via the Storefront Safety Council. The real expert on this is Rob Reiter.

I'm a student of photography. Here are some shots I took this winter. 'Not a pro (obviously), just trying to get better at capturing the world around me. More on Instagram.

Here are three actual pro photographers in Maryland whose work I admire: This one wrote a great book last year. This one takes stunning shots of the Chesapeake. And this one does a wide variety of excellent work.

A Word About Federal Workers

As I write this in early 2025, hundreds of thousands of federal workers are being terrorized by an unelected billionaire, backed by the U.S. president.Many of those workers are getting multiple emails each day, seven days a week, threatening them with firing, urging them to quit. They're being bombarded with social-media posts mocking their intelligence, their dedication, and their service.I know some of these people. They are not lazy do-nothing "bureaucrats" but rather they are smart, highly skilled, invaluable public servants.We need them. We should all be supporting them. (Here are resources in Maryland for impacted federal workers.)