A native Charlestonian, Ida has covered the city, her people, and its cosmopolitan culture for both local and national media. As Charleston magazine's society editor and former skirt! magazine style editor, Charleston City Paper columnist, Cooper River Bridge Run magazine editor, Charleston Fashion Week supplement editor, and contributor to Legends, Gotham, Charleston Home, and Charleston Weddings, Ida has chronicled the most intriguing aspects of the Lowcountry. In 2007, her Fête Set blog earned the Charleston City Paper's Best Blog in Charleston award.

Ida's first-person Living on the Edge column introduces Charleston readers to a new daredevil activity every month. In the past year, she's sailed in a 777-mile open ocean race, flown a small Cessna, completed three months of boot camp workouts alongside officer candidate Marines, come face-to-face with several Great White sharks, set a 1:56 half marathon PR, learned to surf kayak at “the edge of America,” leapt out of a plane, paddled a Dragon Boat alongside cancer survivors, taken up fencing, started tap dancing, raced a 1954 Jaguar XK120, paddled through several class five rapids, smoked the guys in her class at BMW’s high performance driving school, and learned to bake scones.

Ida is the author of the Charleston ICONS: 50 Symbols of the Holy City, published in 2009 by Globe Pequot Press. {click}

An intrepid traveler who spent 2008- 2009 circumnavigating the globe, Ida interviewed and photographed the people she met in more than 20 countries for her U Truth Project, a documentary that chronicles personal beliefs (www.UTruthProject.org). Despite her wanderings, Ida remains a southerner at heart saying, "You can't find boiled peanuts or college football in Dubai." {click}