Media & Journalism Experience
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Editorial Fellow // January 2021 - present
Reporting and data analysis for the Pandora Papers investigation. Host and producer of the "Meet the Investigators" podcast. Writing short-term stories for the ICIJ website. Member of the Scripps Howard Foundation's inaugural Roy W. Howard Fellowship class.
Capital News Service
Data/Graphics Bureau // August 2020 - December 2020
Reporting on data-based stories and designing infographics for student-powered newsroom covering Maryland and D.C. news. Assisting with data/design strategy for reporting from Annapolis and Washington bureaus.
Howard Center for Investigative Journalism
Data Reporter and Graphics Designer // June 2020 - August 2020
Summer reporting project on nationwide eviction trends during COVID-19 pandemic. Built Python scrapers to retrieve court records from county websites, analyzed data in R to produce trend memos for reporting team and designed accompanying infographics. Laid out all stories from summer package.
It's Pretty OK
Co-host, Podcast Producer, Web Editor // February 2016 - present
Founded and co-host a podcast about millennial life, with over 300 episodes to date. Built a Squarespace website to house our podcast feed as well as articles on food, music and more. Responsible for editing all web content and mixing/editing podcast episodes in Adobe Audition.
WTJU-FM (Charlottesville, VA)
On-Air Host, "Straight from the Crate" // January 2017-July 2019
Volunteer host of biweekly late-night radio show on local free-form radio station. Selected music, digitized playlists, read on-air PSAs.
WWL-TV (New Orleans, LA)
Digital Producer, High School Sports // August 2014 - December 2014
Ran station's standalone high school sports website. Published over 200 web articles, recruited a user-generated content network from local high schools and assisted in the production of the station's weekly prep football show. Temporarily filled in on the station's web desk, writing local interest stories for the station's website and cutting video from the morning show.
Work published in:
The Washington Post, The Associated Press, The Baltimore Sun, Capital News Service, C-VILLE Weekly (Charlottesville, Va.), The Diamondback (College Park, Md.), Greenbelt News Review (Greenbelt, Md.), Source of the Spring (Silver Spring, Md.)
Awards and Recognition
NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute - American Journalism Online Awards 2021
Meet the Investigators (series) (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) - Winner, Most Likely to Inspire Young Journalists
Society of Professional Journalists - Sigma Delta Chi Awards 2020
Nowhere to Go (Howard Center for Investigative Journalism) - Winner, Collaborative Journalism
Society of Professional Journalists DC Chapter - Dateline Awards 2021
Nowhere to Go (Howard Center for Investigative Journalism) - Winner, Online Non-Breaking News
Blue precincts in Republican counties helped boost Biden to victory in Maryland (Capital News Service) - Finalist, Online infographics
Society of Professional Journalists - Region 2 Mark of Excellence Awards 2021
Disconnected: Students struggle with e-learning obstacles, lawmakers earmark solutions (Capital News Service) - Winner, Online News Reporting
MDDC Press Association - 2020 Editorial Awards
Maryland’s political battle lines continue to harden in 2020 (Capital News Service) - 2nd Place, State Government Coverage, Division O
Other Professional Experience
Merkle Inc.
Senior Specialist, Media Services // 2015 - 2019
Managed digital advertising campaigns for retail, financial, and education clients. Contributed to 2016-2019 Digital Bowl reports, analyzing digital efforts of Super Bowl advertisers. Covered industry developments for Merkle’s Digital Marketing Channels blog. Assisted in training of new employees.
Gannett
Summer In-Residence Fellow and Editorial Consultant // June 2014 - April 2015
Interned in product development and design, with focus on products aimed at young consumers. Developed a mobile trivia game based on news and current events, and wrote six quizzes per day in a custom content management system. Ran Facebook and Twitter accounts for the project.
Education
University of Maryland: M.J., Multiplatform Journalism, December 2020
University of Virginia: B.A., Economics, minor in Computer Science, May 2014
Skills
Audio recording and editing: Adobe Audition, Audacity.
CMS experience: Squarespace, Wordpress, custom CMS.
Data analysis: Excel, Google Analytics, R, SQL.
Graphic design: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Carto, Datawrapper, Flourish.
Podcasting: Hosting and editing.
Translating data for non-technical audiences.
Web design and development: CSS3, HTML5, some JavaScript, some Python.
Writing and editing: AP Style, blogging, copy editing, data reporting, news writing.